Goshen is the place where Jacob and his family moved to from Canaan when they went to Egypt to join Joesph. This area was a very fertile section of Egypt, excellent for grazing of animals and certain types of Agriculture, which was very well suited to the family as they were shepherds and farmers. This section of Egypt did not suit Pharaoh as it was a far distance from the River Nile.
The Canaanites, Hittites, Emorites, Perrizites, and Girgashites all occupied parts of the area when the children of Israel returned after their two centuries of bondage in Egypt. Those were displaced relatively quickly, and there has been a continuous Jewish presence in that land since then, regardless of which colonial empire may have ruled it at any given time.
The Gaza Strip
Jesus, our blessed Redeemer, lived here on Earth in the land known then as Palestine, ruled at that time by the Roman government. The majority of the people who lived in Palestine at that time were Jewish. After World War 2, the Balfour Declaration established the state of Israel back on it's original land. land that was promised to Jacob (Israel) by the Creator God Himself, Blessed Be He! Today the land is known as Israel, and the mainly the people who now live in Israel are Jewish.
It is a place beside the Dead Sea in the Holy Land. (Israel/Palestine)
Neither the Palestinians or Jews deserve the land of israel if they keep on fighting. I think that they should simply split up the land equally into two : problem solved!!!!! Then there will be two countries : Palestine and Israel and so they can live in peace.
Judaism is popular in Israel because most Israelis are Jewish. The Jews were given the land of Israel by G-d as an inheritance and therefor it only prospers when Jews live there. Whenever Jews are chased out or exiled the land return to be desert-like; compare the land of Israel now to what it was like 100 years ago under foreign rule.
Cause the land has links to their religious identity. Most people who live in Israel today live there because they were born there, their friends are there, their livelihoods are there, etc. They see no reason to pick up and leave; it's their home.
Approximately 700,000 people live in Israel's Negev region, which covers about half of the country's land area. The Negev is home to various cities and towns, as well as Bedouin communities and kibbutzim.
Initially, they were one small group: Abraham's family. But they grew to live in cities all over the land of Israel.
He was born in Goshen, Egypt. He left Egypt and went to Midian when he killed an Egyptian. After the Hebrew Exodus, he wandered in the dessert saw the promised land but didn't entered it. He died in the desert.
Israel controls 78% of the former Mandate of Palestine compared with 22% in the West Bank and Gaza. However, it should be noted that Palestinians are not forced to live there; they can literally live anywhere in the world other than Israel and a large number of Palestinians who did not flee Israel live inside of Israeli borders without restriction.