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Goats, and, to a lesser extent, sheep, provided milk for part of the year, and milk and dairy products were a significant source of food. Dairy products are mentioned in the Bible (for example, Genesis 18:8 , Judges 4:19 , and 2 Samuel 17:29 , and a repeated description of the Land of Israel in the Bible is "a land flowing with milk and honey ...
The State of Israel faced enormous military and economic challenges in its early years, and the period from 1948 to 1958 was a time of food rationing and austerity, known as tzena. In this decade, over one million Jewish immigrants, mainly from Arab countries, but also including European Holocaust survivors, inundated the new state.
30 June. The Israeli Knesset voted to dissolve itself, triggering the fifth election in less than four years. 1 November. Israel held its fifth election in less than four years, resulting in a victory for Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party, which led to the formation of a controversial right-wing government.
“The attacks on Israel showed how ... Almost exactly 50 years ago, an oil price shock caused by ... which echoes a similar event in the early 1970s that put upward pressure on food prices ...
History of Israel. In 1948, following the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine, the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel sparked the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, which resulted in the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight from the land that the State of Israel came to control and subsequently led to waves of Jewish ...
May. May: One of the 62 ma'abarot (immigrant transit camps) established in 1950 to temporarily house the massive influx of Jewish refugees and new immigrants. The government and the Jewish Agency decide to establish ma'abarot (immigrant transit camps) to house the growing number of new immigrants in the country.
Considering the human toll of the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, it's understandably hard to think about the economic impact. But because the conflict takes place in a major oil...
Israeli wine is produced by hundreds of wineries, ranging in size from small boutique enterprises to large companies producing over ten million bottles per year. Wine has been produced in the Land of Israel since biblical times. Wine was exported to Rome during the Roman period, but under the Muslim rulers the production was virtually wiped out.