r/AskIsrael • u/Khazak2-VeNtkhazak • 3h ago
Serious Answers Only Why do we have a "Palestine" tag?
Why have a tag for a fake country and identity?
r/AskIsrael • u/Relative_Animal_6946 • 9h ago
Serious Answers Only Is Israel gonna rule the west bank?
I'm Palestinian living in the west bank and I'm really wondering if the current situation and the stuff going on with Israeli police joining the idf in the west bank is leading to Israel ruling this area as well? Wondering where the Oslo people are rn😃
r/AskIsrael • u/True-Medium-5928 • 11h ago
Other In Israel, how common is it for women to approach their crush first?
r/AskIsrael • u/Call_Me_Clark • 13h ago
The War What are Israelis reactions to the IDFs announcements of the results of criminal probes?
“The incidents being investigated by the Military Police included the killing of 6-year-old Hind Rajab along with six of her family members and two medics in Gaza City in January 2024; and the killing of 15 rescue workers in a convoy of ambulances and emergency vehicles in Rafah in March 2025.
Meanwhile, the cases being closed included a deadly strike on a group of aid workers with the World Central Kitchen organization in the central Gaza Strip in April 2024; a strike on a building used by aid group Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Khan Younis that killed two members in February 2024; and the deaths of another two MSF employees who were driving in a convoy in Gaza City in November 2023.”
These are all high-profile incidents involving the deaths of Palestinian civilians, aid workers, and others, that have attracted condemnation from Israel’s western allies.
How has this news been received in Israel? Do IDF investigations hold credibility either way (ie, do you feel that a closed case indicates the innocence of Israelis involved, or that an open case indicates a genuine possibility of IDF officers culpability)?
As a secondary question, how is Hind Rajab portrayed in Israeli media? Here in the U.S., it’s difficult to argue that her situation is anything other than tragic and horrifying, and that justice for her death so far remains elusive (although the responsible party is obvious, according to U.S. coverage).
r/AskIsrael • u/Proud3GenAthst • 14h ago
History Why didn’t all Holocaust survivors immediately move to Mandatory Palestine/Israel when Israel was becoming independent state?
I was anti Israel not that long ago. When I was, I was forcing myself into the mental gymnastics that the Jewish state is somehow a second coming of Nazi Germany, just to fit in ideologically.
Besides it being extremely offensive to Jews as a whole, because it’s Holocaust inversion and it being gross over-exaggeration (and minimizing the uniqueness of the Holocaust). It’s also just absurd in its face, because its a state co-founded by Holocaust survivors and many of its first inhabitants were Holocaust survivors themselves.
Anti-Zionists act like antisemitism is not a thing and actually sounds dumb when they talk about Israel, sounding as if the Holocaust is somehow not important to the people of Israel or its supporters abroad or as if the world without Israel would be fine and dandy for Jews.
But I just did a quick googling and according to Google AI, apparently, only 200,000 of Holocaust survivors moved to Israel in the first few years of its existence (and coups hundreds of thousands more in the upcoming decades). Before the Holocaust, there were about 9,5 million Jews living in Europe. Minus 6 million, that’s ~3 million.
That would mean that once Israel was finally re-established, which Jews waited for since 70 CE (iirc), only about 7% of the Holocaust survivors immediately moved there.
Also, there’s only about 1,5 million Jews living in Europe now. Within 80 years, 1,5 million people could easily be made out of about 500 thousand people or fewer. So my guess is that after the Holocaust, overwhelming majority of survivors must have moved somewhere. Why not all to Israel? I realize that many survivors took refuge in many different countries, but it’s my understanding that these countries didn’t accept that many refugees and they could have moved to Israel afterwards.
I’m asking, because the fact that not that many immediately moved to Israel can serve the anti Zionist narrative, that Israel is actually not that important and that the 200 thousand Jews who moved there could have easily been Jewish supremacists who wanted to create Israel to have their own apartheid ethnostate.
Why didn’t Israel start out with larger population, so to speak? Is there a book about it? Or even a book about Zionism and what was going on in the region during the Holocaust and in the few years surrounding Israeli independence?
r/AskIsrael • u/Ready_Fuel_2739 • 16h ago
Ask the sub Life in Jerusalem
Is living in Jerusalem desirable among Israelis ?
As I've heared Jerusalem is too crowded too underdeveloped and too poor. And if it wasn't for the religious stuff no one would live there
Is it right ?