find the more straightforward meaning of Yaqub-El, "Jacob is god." The name Israel given to Jacob following the episode of his wrestling with the angel...

Jacob Israël de Haan (31 December 1881 - 30 June 1924) was a Dutch Jewish literary writer, lawyer and journalist who immigrated to Palestine in 1919. There...

Hebrew scriptures, the descendants of the biblical patriarch Jacob (also known as Israel), who collectively form the Israelite nation. The tribes were...

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. It is bordered by Lebanon and Syria to the north, the...

includes the renaming of Jacob as Israel (etymologized as "contends-with-God"). In the Genesis patriarchal narrative, Jacob spent the night alone on a...

but returned to Israel after Cyrus the Great conquered the region. According to the Bible, the Israelites are the descendants of Jacob, a patriarch who...

Israel Jacob (1729–1803) was a philanthropist in the Kingdom of Prussia. Jacob was born on 14 April 1729 in Halberstadt. Jacob, a banker, a philanthropist...

the reprinters) Emden, Jacob Israel Ben Zebi Ashkenazi, jewishencyclopedia.com Jacob Emden, jewishvirtuallibrary.org Rabbi Jacob Emden's View on Christianity...

ʔibraːhiːm ʔibn ʔaːzar], transl. Jacob, son of Isaac, the son of Abraham), later given the name Israil (إِسْرَآءِیْل, transl. 'Israel'), is recognized by Muslims...

An armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups has been taking place in the Gaza Strip and Israel since 7 October 2023. The...

anti-Zionist and even antisemitic policies. The energetic arguments of Jacob Israël de Haan on behalf of sectors of the Orthodox yishuv who disagreed with...

being supplanted by his younger twin, Jacob (Israel). According to the Muslim tradition, the prophet Yaqub, or Israel, was the favorite of his mother, and...

story functions as an explanation for Israel's residence in Egypt. He is the favourite son of the patriarch Jacob, and his jealous brothers sell him into...

Banī Isrā'īl "The children of Israel") (Biblical Hebrew: b'nei yisrael, בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל) refers to the children of Jacob. It is also used to refer to:...

of Israel) formed a national ethos and collectively established the Kingdom of Israel, whence came the name of the modern-day State of Israel. Jacob (later...

Israel Jacob Kligler (24 April 1888 – 23 September 1944) was a microbiologist, Zionist and humanist. Kligler was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, educated...

first commander of the Irgun. He is best known for the assassination of Jacob Israël de Haan. Avraham Zilberg (later Tehomi) was born in Odessa in the Russian...

explains that Jacob, as a holy man, was always accompanied by angels. When he reached the border of the land of Canaan (the future Land of Israel), the angels...

אָבִינוּ חַי) in a possible reference to the Jewish tradition that "Jacob/Israel did not die." According to musicologist Tina Frühauf, Carlebach changed...

Mattathiah Nissim ben Jacob Israel Terni (Hebrew: מתתיה נסים בן יעקב ישראל טירני; fl. 18th–19th centuries) was an Italian rabbi and poet. He served as...

Israel Jacobs (June 9, 1726 – c. December 10, 1796) was a colonial Pennsylvania Legislator and United States Representative from Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional...

beginnings of Israel's history.... [In Genesis], it was Judah, among all of Jacob's sons, whose destiny was to rule over all the other tribes in Israel." Emerton...

authoritative spokesmen against the formation of a Jewish State, the Dutch poet Jacob Israël de Haan, was assassinated by the Haganah in 1924. In 1933, it entered...

Jacob Joseph Lew (born August 29, 1955) is an American attorney and diplomat serving as the United States ambassador to Israel. He was the seventy-sixth...

which is traditionally symbolized by a lion. In Genesis, the patriarch Jacob ("Israel") gave that symbol to this tribe when he refers to his son Judah as...

and Liberia Dan (son of Jacob), one of the 12 sons of Jacob/Israel in the Bible Tribe of Dan, one of the 12 tribes of Israel descended from Dan Danel...

name "Israel" first appears in the Hebrew Bible as the name given by God to the patriarch Jacob (Genesis 32:28). Deriving from the name "Israel", other...

University Press. ISBN 978-1-847-79275-4. Jacob, Aaron (18 June 2009). "Historical, Legal, and Political Aspects of Israeli Settlement Policy". American Jewish...

sends messengers to Esau, as well as gifts meant to appease him. Jacob gets the name Israel after he wrestles with the Angel of God as he is traveling to...

advancing equal opportunity for Israel's Arab minority. Born at Merton Hall in Cambridge on 29 April 1936, Nathaniel Charles Jacob Rothschild was the eldest...