He promised God he had learned his lesson.

NEWYORKER: Good People

In the original Jewish narrative, the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 meant redemption, an escape from the genocidal persecution of the Nazis and a return to the land promised by God (for the religious) or historical precedent (for the secular).

ECONOMIST: Israeli and Palestinian history

To hardline opponents of the pull-out, Mr Sharon is abandoning parts of the Promised Land that God gave to the Jews, a tragedy on a par with the Romans' sacking of Jerusalem or the Nazi Holocaust.

ECONOMIST: “Disengagement” completed | The

The novel alludes to the hopes for redemption in the stories of the Jewish tradition: the journey into the promised land, the coming of the Messiah, the renewal of the covenant between God and his chosen people.

ECONOMIST: New fiction

Sinai as a nation committed to an abstract principle of an invisible God, an abstract code of law, and an abstract, yet-to-be-seen promised land.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Jerusalem, the Eternal Front Line