- What the Bible says
Jewish history began about 4000 years ago with the patriarchs – Abraham, his son Isaac, and grandson Jacob. Some Arabs said that they lived there before, and that’s correct but it was after the Jews went from Israel (in that time I think it was called Canaan) to Egypt because they didn’t have food. In the Bible says that God promised Israel to the Jews, that it was for them (that’s when Moses took them and unslaved them fromt the egyptians, and they were in the desert, etc.).
Also king David united the 12 Israelite tribes into one kingdom establishing Jerusalem as the capital of the monarchy.
The Kingdom of Israel was crushed by the Assyrians (722 BCE) and its people carried off into exile and oblivion.
On 14 May 1948, when the British Mandate came to an end, the Jewish population in the Land numbered some 650,000, comprising an organized community with well-developed political, social and economic institutions - in fact, a nation in every sense and a state in everything but name.
