Jerusalem, an old Canaanite settlement in the uplands of Judaea, enters history rather offhandedly in the biblical narrative: David, king of Israel, then resident at nearby Hebron, decides to make this Jebusite city his capital. No reason is...

In 1947 the United Nations declared that Palestine, then under British mandate, should be split into separate Jewish and Palestinian states, and that Jerusalem—the holy city coveted by both groups—should be placed under international...

ancient city of the Middle East that since 1967 has been wholly under the rule of the State of Israel. Long an object of veneration and conflict, the holy city of Jerusalem has been governed, both as a provincial town and a national capital, by an...

The status of Jerusalem in the needs to be linked with the status of a number of important figures that appear in the Jewish bible and the Gospels. Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon, Zechariah, John the Baptist and Jesus are, according to Islam, among the...

City (pop., 2005 est.: 704,900), capital of Israel (&see; below). Located in the heart of historic Palestine, it is nestled between the West Bank and Israel. The Old City is a typical walled Middle Eastern enclosure; the modern city is an urban...

(City of *David). The capital of the modern State of *Israel. After King *David had captured the fortress from the Jebusites (*II Samuel 5), he made it his capital. His son, King *Solomon, placed the *Temple there and it remained the capital of the...

City conquered by King David and made the political and religious capital of the Israelite nation. In the religion Judaism, it is the place God chose for the building of the Temple that the people of Israel were to construct for divine worship and...

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