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Apr 21, 2021 · Famine was a constant threat and a very real part of life for the ancient Israelite world that produced the Hebrew Bible. The ways that the Bible understood and addressed famine, in turn, have had ...
- Joel Baden
For centuries, agriculture in the Land of Israel was highly dependent on irregular rainfall, making drought and consequent famine of frequent occurrence. The paradoxical appreciation by Deuteronomy 11:10ff. of this disadvantage (as involving God in constant attention to the land) puts a good face upon what Ezekiel 36:30 bluntly calls the land's ...
Feb 23, 2010 · Israel is a pilot area for the arid lands of the world, especially those of her Arab neighbors, who persist in their destitution in the same landscape that Israel has brought into blossom.
Oct 17, 2024 · Palestinians gather to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen in the northern Gaza Strip on Sept. 11. (Mahmoud Issa/Reuters) By Josh Rogin. October 17, 2024 at 3:13 p.m. EDT. As the war between ...
- Josh Rogin
Mar 20, 2024 · Famine occurs when a country has such a severe food shortage that its population faces acute malnutrition, starvation, or death. The status is generally declared by the United Nations (UN ...
May 14, 2015 · There is a common view in the United States, on both the right and the left, that the US government gives Israel so much support because it loves and supports Israel’s role in the conflict.
Mar 3, 2024 · March 3, 2024 at 5:30 p.m. EST. JERUSALEM — On Saturday, the United States airdropped 38,000 meals into Gaza — a territory controlled not by a hostile foreign power but by one of its closest ...
