Israel Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Etymology== {{Further |Israel (name) |Names of the Levant#Israel and Judea}} [[File:Merneptah Steli (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|The [[Merneptah Stele]] (13th century BCE). The majority of [[Biblical Archeology|biblical archeologists]] translate a set of hieroglyphs as ''Israel'', the first instance of the name in the record.]] Under the [[Mandate for Palestine|British Mandate]] (1920–1948), the whole region was known as ''Palestine''.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://time.com/3445003/mandatory-palestine/ |title=Mandatory Palestine: What It Was and Why It Matters |author=Noah Rayman |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=29 September 2014 |access-date=5 December 2015 |archive-date=18 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190518140257/http://time.com/3445003/mandatory-palestine/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Upon [[Israeli Declaration of Independence|establishment]] in 1948, the country formally adopted the name ''State of Israel'' ({{lang-he|מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל}}, {{Audio|He-Medinat Israel2.ogg|{{transliteration|he|''Medīnat Yisrā'el''}}|help=no}} {{IPA-he|mediˈnat jisʁaˈʔel|}}; {{lang-ar|دَوْلَة إِسْرَائِيل}}, {{transliteration|ar|ALA-LC|''Dawlat Isrāʼīl''}}, {{IPA-ar|dawlat ʔisraːˈʔiːl|}}) after other [[Israeli Declaration of Independence#Name|proposed names]] including ''[[Land of Israel]]'' ({{lang|he-Latn|Eretz Israel}}), ''Ever'' (from ancestor [[Eber]]), ''[[Zion]]'', and ''[[Judea]]'', were considered but rejected,<ref>{{cite news |work=[[The Palestine Post]] |date=7 December 1947 |page=1 |title=Popular Opinion |url=http://www.jpress.org.il/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:LowLevelEntityToSaveGifMSIE_TAUEN&Type=text/html&Locale=english-skin-custom&Path=PLS/1947/12/07&ChunkNum=-1&ID=Ar00105&PageLabel=1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120815030044/http://www.jpress.org.il/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib%3ALowLevelEntityToSaveGifMSIE_TAUEN&Type=text%2Fhtml&Locale=english-skin-custom&Path=PLS%2F1947%2F12%2F07&ChunkNum=-1&ID=Ar00105&PageLabel=1 |archive-date=15 August 2012}}</ref> while the name ''Israel'' was suggested by [[Ben-Gurion]] and passed by a vote of 6–3.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://info.jpost.com/1998/Supplements/Jubilee/2.html |title=One Day that Shook the world |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112220409/http://info.jpost.com/1998/Supplements/Jubilee/2.html |archive-date=12 January 2012 |work=[[The Jerusalem Post]] |date=30 April 1998 |author=Elli Wohlgelernter }}</ref> In the early weeks after establishment, the government chose the term ''[[Israelis|Israeli]]'' to denote a citizen of the Israeli state.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,798687-2,00.html |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=31 May 1948 |title=On the Move |access-date=6 August 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016074447/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0%2C9171%2C798687-2%2C00.html |archive-date=16 October 2007}}</ref> The names [[Land of Israel]] and [[Children of Israel]] have historically been used to refer to the biblical [[Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy)|Kingdom of Israel]] and the [[Jewish people|entire Jewish people]] respectively.<ref name=levine>{{cite news |last=Levine |first=Robert A. |title=See Israel as a Jewish Nation-State, More or Less Democratic |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=7 November 2000 |access-date=19 January 2011 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/07/opinion/07iht-edlevine.t.html |archive-date=22 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160722032239/http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/07/opinion/07iht-edlevine.t.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[Israel (name)|name 'Israel']] (Hebrew: {{lang|he-Latn|Yīsrāʾēl}}; [[Septuagint]] {{lang-grc-gre|Ἰσραήλ}}, {{lang|grc-Latn|Israēl}}, '[[El (deity)|El (God)]] persists/rules', though after {{Bibleverse|Hosea|12:4}} often interpreted as 'struggle with God') refers to the patriarch [[Jacob]] who, according to the [[Hebrew Bible]], was given the name after he successfully wrestled with the angel of the Lord.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |author=Geoffrey W. Bromiley |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yklDk6Vv0l4C&pg=PA907 |title=Israel |encyclopedia=[[International Standard Bible Encyclopedia]]: E–J |publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |date=1995 |page=907 }}</ref> The earliest known archaeological artefact to mention the word ''Israel'' as a collective is the [[Merneptah Stele]] of [[ancient Egypt]] (dated to the late 13th century BCE).<ref>{{harvnb|Barton|Bowden|2004|p=126}}. "The Merneptah Stele ... is arguably the oldest evidence outside the Bible for the existence of Israel as early as the 13th century BCE."</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! 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