HISTORY
The Jewish people first settled the region known as the Land of Israel, a few thousands years ago. Centuries after their settlement of the Land of Israel, events led to the nation and the people being overrun by foreign armies and as a result of which, the Jewish people were enslaved and led of into captivity, into the 1st exile.
Remnants of the Jewish people eventually were able to return to their land to resettle it's cities and plow it's fields once again. The Jewish people lived safely until the dark cloud of the Roman Empire decended upon the Land of Israel, known then as Judea, after the tribe of Judah. Through a series of events, the Romans razed the cities and burned the fields and enslaved the people, leading them off to the farthest reaches of the Roman empire. The Jews were physically prevented to return to Judea and as time went on, survivors and refugees fled farther and farther away from Judea, into the 2nd exile.
In the last couple of hundred years, the Jews have miraculously returned to their homeland for the third time in 3500 years. They established a secular State with an overt Jewish character called Israel. However, the dream of The Jews' to return to Tzion was to a proud, pious, religious, Jewish State. The future State of Judea's borders stretch from just south of the Israeli city of Afula to the southern Hebron hills of Ashkelot and Susia, from the Western bank of the Jordan river to the villages of Alfei Menashe and Susia, with East Jerusalem as it's captial.
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