ISRAEL'S BEGINNING

About 2000 years before Christ the Promised Land (Palestine) was given through a covenant to the Jewish people (Israelites) forever.  Because of disobedience the Solomon temple and Jerusalem were destroyed in 586 B.C. on the 9th of the Jewish month of Av and survivors taken to Babylon.  Fulfilling prophecy they returned in 70 years and another temple was built. 

Because the Jews disobeyed the commandments of God and failed to recognize Jesus as their Messiah, the Roman General Vespasian and his son Titus smashed the city of Jerusalem and burned the temple - again on the 9th of Av in 70 A.D. The Israelites (the Jews) ceased to be a nation. Those that survived were dispersed into the far reaches of the known world, a typical fate of any population that rebelled or defied the Roman government. The thinking was that a dispersed people would never again organize to rebel, and that they would cease to be identified as an ethnic group. Time alone would absorb them into the existing culture and forever erase their unique identity.

BUT miraculously:   Israel returned as a nation on May 14, 1948, and many consider this to be a modern-day miracle... keeping her same religious traditions and even the same language (Hebrew) intact.

According to Daniel's vision, Jerusalem would be restored to the Israelites in 1,335 years, and the prophet Haggi said Jerusalem would be liberated on 24th day of the 9th month of the Hebrew calendar.  Exactly 1,335 years on the very day Haggi prophesized, which was December 9, 1917 the Mayor of Jerusalem handed over the keys to the Jewish army.

A NATION IN A DAY       
ISRAEL      May 14, 1948

ISRAEL'S REBIRTH AND SURVAVAL IN THE 20TH CENTURY AFTER 2,000 YEARS OF NON-EXISTENCE HAS BEEN CALLED A MIRACLE

12 WELL-ARMED ARMIES ATTACK ISRAEL THE NEXT DAY
ISRAEL HAD NO ARMY AND VERY FEW WEAPONS
Military Institutions including West Point do not study the battles of 1948, 1956, 1967 and 1973  because there is no logical explanation how they could have been won AGAINST ALL ODDS.   They say "We can't run the calculus on why Israel won.  There wasn't one military expert in the world, or major military power, from the Pentagon to the Kremlin, that would've put money on Israel's survival.  In fact, they were unanimous in their predictions that Israel was going to fall in each case.  Israel had only one tank, five cannons and a few guns and three days of ammunition on that first day of battle.
Initially, the Haganah (Israel's underground militia) had no heavy machine guns, artillery, armoured vehicles, anti-tank or anti-aircraft weapons, nor military aircraft or tanks.  The equipment of the Palestinian forces was very poor. The British confiscated most of their arsenal during the 1936-39 rebellion and World War II.  A report of 1942 by the Haganah intelligence service assessed the number of firearms at the disposal of the Palestinian at 50,000 [but] this was probably an overestimate or even "highly exaggerated".
Five of the seven countries of the Arab League at that time, namely Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, backed with Saudi Arabian and Yemenite contingents invaded the territory of the former British Mandate of Palestine on the night of 14-15 May 1948
On 26 May 1948, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) was officially established and the Haganah, Palmach and Irgun militants were dissolved into the army of the new Jewish state.
Althouh Israel had fairly fought for and won more territory, The 1949 Armistice Agreement unfairly forced them to give up Saudi area , Gaza Strip , and West Bank back to the invading countries. 
 

SOME OF ISRAEL'S MIRACLES

That's the link between the 72 hours that Kalani, bought for Israel.  That's the story behind the story.
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WARS OF ISRAEL 

• The state of Israel has experienced seven wars, and two intifadas (rebellion or uprising) since its establishment, which constitute the militaristic component of the Arab-Israeli conflict. 
• 1948 Arab-Israeli War (November 1947 - March 1949), known in Israel as the War of Independence  - Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria attacked Israel on all sides.  The War ended with the 1949 Armistice Agreements which established the armistice lines between Israel and the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. 
• The Sinai War (October 1956) - a military attack on Egypt by Britain, France, and Israel with the intention to occupy the Sinai Peninsula and to takeover the Suez Canal. The attack followed Egypt's decision of  July 1956 to nationalize the Suez Canal.
• Six-Day War (June 1967) - fought between Israel and Arab neighbors Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. The nations of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Algeria also contributed troops and arms to the Arab forces. Following the war the territory won and occupied by Israel expanded significantly: The West Bank from Jordon, the Golan Heights from Syria, and the Sinai from Egypt.
• War of Attrition (1967-1970) - a limited war fought between the Israeli military and forces of Egypt, the USSR and the PLO. It was initiated by the Egyptians as a way of recapturing the Sinai from the Israelis.  The hostilities ended in 1970 with frontiers remaining in the same place as when the war began.
• Yom Kippur War (October 6 - October 26 1973) -  A coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria attacked against Israel as a way of recapturing part of the territories which they lost to the Israelis back in the Six-Day War. The war began with a surprise joint attack by Egypt and Syria on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. Egypt and Syria crossed the cease-fire lines in the Sinai and Golan Heights, respectively, which had been captured by Israel in 1967 during the Six-Day War.   
  Yom Kippur -  a solemn and important Jewish holiday.  Jews traditionally observe this holy day with a 25-hour period of fasting and intensive prayer, often spending most of the day in synagogue services.
• First Lebanon War (1982) - began on June 6, 1982, when the Israel Defense Forces invaded Lebanon as a response to the assassination attempt against Israel's ambassador to the United Kingdom, and due to the constant terror attacks on northern Israel.  
• Second Lebanon War (July 12 - August 14 2006) - began as militaristic operation in response to the abduction of two Israeli reserve soldiers.    
  

THE NEGEV DESERT BLOOMS 

As Israeli society grew increasingly devout in the 1970s, the prophet Isaiah provided further inspiration: "The wilderness and the parched land shall be glad; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose."
At first glance, today the parched land indeed looks glad. The arid coastal plain sprouts with fields of watermelons, tomatoes and sunflowers, and Israel has earned a reputation for creative use of sparse water supplies. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Israelis pioneered the use of "drip irrigation" - which delivers water directly to a plant's roots. More recently, Israeli experiments with desalination and water recycling have drawn attention around the world.

Know-how is the true heart of Israeli horticulture export.  The use of indigenous saltwater from the Dead Sea or the Mediterranean is common practice; certain plants, have been cultivated to grow better in saltwater. In addition, overspill is gathered and reused, with fertilizing material still in it, which saves not only water but the environment.  Growers often plant in volcanic rock, coconut fibers and clay, making better use of limited water and land resources and avoiding insects and therefore the need for chemical pesticides.