AT THE EASTERN end of the Mediterranean Sea lies a small piece of land once known as Palestine, about 280 miles long by 80 miles wide at its widest point. The land has no significant natural resources. Its fertile areas are covered in fields of grain,...
Palestine Palestine is the entity that has governed the Palestinian Arabs of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip since 1994 and is widely seen as a state-in-the-making for the Palestinian people. Previously, however, Palestine was a state in the area now...
YEHOSHUʿA BEN ḤANANYAH (first and second centuries CE), Palestinian tanna who taught in Jerusalem and later at Yavneh and Peqiʿin. Legend has it that when he was a child his mother carried him to the study hall so that he would...
The territory of the land of *Israel. The country was so called from late Roman times, but the name was officially changed in 1948 with the founding of the State of Israel. The term Palestinian is used for the non-Jewish previous inhabitants of the...
Secular name of the Land of Israel. Originally the Roman name for the Land of Israel, adopted after the defeat by the Romans of the JEWISH REVOLT of 132–135 C.E. led by Bar...
