Land of three religions, the biblical “Promised Land”, home to many peoples and civilizations, today the territory of Israel attracts millions of tourists with its historical monuments and the mixing of cultures. This also contributed to the unique natural conditions of the Dead Sea, dozens of sea resorts of the Mediterranean and Red Seas, and colorful landscapes of the Negev desert or the inclement Judean Mountains.
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Federal department of foreign affairs of Switzerland exclaimed surprise and regrets concerning to excessively sudden critical statements which follows the decision of Israel to withdraw the ambassador in Bern for consultations.
Not so long time ago Judaism is prevailed above the Israel culture, religion is state, and also Islam and Christianity. But in modern society religion departs on the second plan: most Israelis conduct “double life”, actively participating both in society and in religious its part.
Know true believers sufficiently easy - dark clothes, beard and curlings side whiskers (payot).
The first immigrants brought the cultural values of countries, where they arrived from, and, to proclamation of Israel the independent state, traditions of Central and East Europe prevailed here.
In the modern state music, cinema, literature reflect the cultural legacy of the Jewish people and national character, which was formed during many centuries.
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Russian-Speaking multi-millionaire Arkadiy Gaydamak came off second-best on elections of mayor of Jerusalem, being able to take only the third place with 3,6% voices, testify to summed up municipal elections on Wednesday.
During next five years businessman-anticlerical Nir Barakat, which enlistes the support of 52% electors, will manage a 700-thousandth city, which Israel, despite of world association opinion, consider the “single and indivisible” capital.
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The religion in Israel triumphs: the member of Knesseth Orlev has submitted a bill about transition to Saturday and Sunday as uniform days of rest. Sense of the given law in the best fine tuning of the Israeli economy to the western.
Week-end will begin for Jews on Friday evening as preparation to шабатному to rest. The law urged to correct a situation for a long time characterised as absurdity when moderately religious Jews have no full day of rest because шабат begins on Friday evening and comes to an end on Saturday evening, and on Sunday they come back to work.
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Jerusalem
There is not more holy place in the world than Jerusalem, it’s not important, who you are Jew, Moslem or Christian.
Of course, many people come to Jerusalem that to join to its sacred history, to know its inhabitans closer. But don’t forget that it’s a modern, full of live city.
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In the State Israel formally there is no state religion (that is obligatory for citizens), but it and is not separated from the state. The status of the Jewish religion in the State Israel has not received legislative registration because of disagreements in a society of the relation of religion to the state and its role in a society.
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The culture of Israel is the enormous monolith which has tested of influence of different epoch and traditions, the absorbed experience of thousand generations, and for centuries of gains and порабощений the kept unique colour. The culture of Israel closely connected with religion, shows a unique alloy of custom and the present. The rich cultural heritage of the Jewish people owing to the developed historical circumstances has ascended on a fertile field of many countries of the world, and only small part from them was born on the Earth promised. Persecutions and rough handlings have forced Jews to dissipate all over the world, and there to show the Genius. But despite of everything that small historical piece of independence has sufficed them also that to them granted an antiquity, and for this period the earth of Israel was decorated with remarkable monuments of the Jewish culture. Numerous archeological finds on the Israeli earth give a trustworthy information about events of the past centuries, among them stables of tsar Solomona in Megiddo, apartment houses of an epoch of the Israeli kingdom in Hailstones David (Jerusalem), ritual swimming baths of a fortress of Masada and rolls of the Dead Sea - the most ancient Jewish Torah.
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From Jerusalem to Judaic desert no distance. Having passed turn on Maale-Adumim, we head for the Dead Sea. On both parties of highway majestic zolotisto-pink hills rise. Sensation such as if you have got to a fairy tale: over a head the bottomless sky on which it is lazy becomes blue “lambs” of clouds.
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