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 Nadene Goldfoot                                             

                                                                                

     Shrine of the Book in Jerusalem:  The Shrine of the Book was built as a repository for the first seven scrolls discovered at Qumran in 1947. The unique white dome embodies the lids of the jars in which the first scrolls were found.  Israel is just waiting for its history to be re-discovered.  

According to the latest report by Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel's population grew by 2%, or 194,000, over the past (Jewish) year to 9.795 million (9,795,000). 7.181 million (73%) of Israel's citizens are Jewish, 2.065 million (21%) Arabs and 549,000 (6%) others including Russian-speaking immigrants who are not Jewish, spouses of Russian Jewish immigrants as a rule.   There were 70,000* new immigrants this past year.  In 2022 there were 73,000* new immigrants. That could be the same year. 

When they fought: October 1973:  Who was fighting: Egypt and Syria launched the Yom Kippur War, which lasted from October 6, 1973, to October 22, 1973, with air strikes against Israeli targets in the Suez Canal and Golan Heights.

What happened: Egypt and Syria were seeking to retake territory lost in 1967. Other Arab countries -- including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Sudan, Morocco and Jordan -- aided Egypt and Syria with troops, financial assistance and weapons. The Soviet Union airlifted supplies to the Arab combatants, while the United States provided aid to Israel.  What was the outcome: In 1973, the United Nations passed a resolution calling for a cease-fire and talks aimed at peace in the region. 

            Just moved into Safed 13 floor apartment building, living on ground floor with bars on windows to keep out terrorists.  1981.  We lived in Haifa and went to school for 10 months to get certified to teach in Israel in 1980.  Here I'm waiting for lift that should arrive at port any day with all my things.  

When I immigrated in September 1980, immigration was at 20,428. The last time numbers were so high was in 2000 with 60,201 and in 1999 with 76,766.  When times are precarious for Jews, the numbers swell.  American Jews are a tiny fraction of the population, I noticed.  

In 2011, her neighbors, Egypt, had 79,089,650; Jordan had 5,568,565;  Iraq had 31,234,000, and Syria had 22,505,000    That same year of 2011, Israel had 16,893 new immigrants.   Now, 2023, Israel has 9,795,000.  

Smoke rises over Amman during clashes between the Jordanian military and the Palestinian fedayeen, 1 October 1970

The obvious land for the Palestinians has always been Jordan, but they, like Israel, was at odds with these Arabs.  They even fought a bloody war, Black September with them.  The main phase of the fighting took place between 16 and 27 September 1970, though certain aspects of the conflict continued until 17 July 1971.  Black September also known as the Jordanian Civil War, was an armed conflict between Jordan, led by King Hussein, and the Palestine Liberation Organization ..

On June 10, 1993, Abdullah—then Prince Abdullah bin Al-Hussein—married Rania Al-Yassin. Rania, then 22, was born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents, and had met Abdullah at a dinner party just six months earlier. (Kuwait will have a population in 2011 of 3,399,637 while Jordan's will be 5,568,565).  

 The Royal family refuses to talk about it. King Abdullah had even married an Arab Palestinian, but to take them all will not work because they haven't changed a bit and Jordan refuses to deal with them.  He has taken in thousands of refugees and has put up refugee camps for them. 

The Palestinians are the pawns in a chess game played by Israel's neighbors.  They do the fighting since 67, except all ganged up on Israel in 73 on Yom Kippur for another bloody fight, that was a surprise.  The Yom Kippur War, also known as the 1973 Arab Israeli War, was fought from 6 to 25 October 1973. It was a coordinated assault launched by Egypt, Syria and their allies against Israel on the holiest day of the Jewish Calendar. 

President Joe Biden next week will hold his first face-to-face meeting with

 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since the Israeli leader came 

back into office.

Biden will meet Netanyahu on the sidelines of the United Nations General 

Assembly, before hosting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in

 Washington later in the week.    

In his first visit to the United States since the start of protests 

against the judicial overhaul, Netanyahu will focus on his 

meeting with US President Joe Biden and his address at the 

UN General Assembly.  He still hasn't been invited to the White

Resource:

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/total-immigration-to-israel-by-year

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/15/politics/joe-biden-meeting-netanyau-zelensky-unga/index.html

Book Letters From Israel, by Nadene Goldfoot-from immigration for 5 years.  

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