Israel

plural Israels · alternative Isr. · alternative Isreal · alternative Yisrael · alternative Israhel

1. countableuncountableA country in Western Asia in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean. Official name: State of Israel.

   With Western support, Israel is plunging headfirst into slaughter.

   2023 October 18, “We’re anti-Zionist Jews and we see genocide unfolding in Gaza”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

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   If we look at the Middle East, I think it’s about time we stop those of us, who support – as most of us do – Israel in this body, for apologizing for our support for Israel. There is no apology to be made. None. It is the best $3 billion investment we make. Were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect her interest in the region; the United States would have to go out and invent an Israel.

   1986 June 5, Joe Biden, 01:27:00 from the start, in Senate Session, C-SPAN

   And you know how we train for the army? We don’t train for defensive warfare. If the war against Israel ever had to be fought on Israeli soil – do I have to tell you? –, it’s an impossibility. So it’s the same thing. Don’t let the war of words ever be fought about Israel’s nature!

   2019 December 3, Ruth Wisse, 31:04 from the start, in Global Anti-Semitism: A New or Old Phenomenon? (Natan Sharansky and Ruth Wisse in Conversation), Jewish Broadcasting Service

   Synonyms: State of Israel, Israhell, Jewsrael, Jewish state, Zionistan, Isn'treal, Zionist entity, Jewish colony

2. countableuncountablebiblicalA Biblical region of Western Asia roughly coextensive with the modern State of Israel, known in the Bible as the Land of Israel and considered the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people.
3. countablehistoricaluncountableAn ancient kingdom in Western Asia, roughly coextensive with the modern State of Israel and the Land of Israel.

   Synonyms: Land of Israel, Palestine, Holy Land, Canaan

4. countablehistoricaluncountableAn ancient kingdom that occupied the northern part of the Land of Israel and modern State of Israel, as distinct from Judah.
5. countablepoeticuncountableliturgicalThe Jews as a people, taken collectively.

   Hear O’ Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One

   2024 August 24 (last accessed), My Jewish learning, The Shema

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   For our ancestors, for us, for our children, for every generation of the people Israel, for all ages from the first to the last, His teachings are true, everlasting.

   2024 August 24 (last accessed), My Jewish learning, The Shema

   Synonyms: Children of Israel, Israelites, Jewry, Zion

6. countableuncountableA male given name from Hebrew.

   IF VOLFER is happy, Transportation Minister Israel Katz seems almost jubilant.

   2016 September 1, Carl Hoffman, “The project that could help determine Israel's future”, in The Jerusalem Post, archived from the original on 04 Feb 2022

   1. countableuncountableAnother name for Jacob, notably after Genesis 32:28 and in later references.

      And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

      1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 32:28

7. countableuncountableA surname.
8. countableuncountableA barangay of Imelda, Zamboanga Sibugay, Philippines.

   These are intended for the completion of the Construction of Level II Water System Project for barangays Mt. View, Little Baguio and Israel under the BuB-Water and Construction of Brgy. Bulongisan-Canaan Level II Water Supply under the SALINTUBIG Program.

   2015 June 28, “The Municipality of Imelda receives checks for the completion of their water system project”, in DILG IX

   Synonyms: Balian Israel