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Astyages
Astyages (spelled by Herodotus as Ἀστυάγης - Astyages; by Ctesias as Astyigas; by Diodorus as Aspadas; Akkadian: Ištumegu, was the last king of the Median Empire, r. 585 BCE-550 BCE, the son of Cyaxares; he was dethroned in 550 BCE by Cyrus the Great.
His name derives from the Old Iranian Rishti Vaiga, which means "swinging the spear, lance-hurler."
Astyages succeeded his father in 585 BCE, following the Battle of Halys, which ended a five-year war between the Lydians and the Medes. He inherited a large empire, ruled in alliance with his two brothers-in-law, Croesus of Lydia and Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, whose wife, Amytis, Astyages' sister, was the queen for whom Nebuchadnezzar was said to have built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Married to Aryenis, the sister of King Croesus of Lydia, to seal the treaty between the two empires, Astyages ascended to the Median throne upon his father's death later that year. By her he had perhaps a daughter Amytis (same as Amytis above married to Nebuchadnezzar?) married to Cyrus the Great.

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Babylon
Coordinates: 32°32′11″N 44°25′15″E / 32.53639°N 44.42083°E / 32.53639; 44.42083
Babylon (Arabic: بابل, Babil; Akkadian: Bābili(m);Sumerian logogram: KÁ.DINGIR.RA^KI;Hebrew: בָּבֶל, Bābel;Greek: Βαβυλών, Babylōn) was an Akkadian city-state (founded in 1867 BC by an Amorite dynasty) of ancient Mesopotamia, the remains of which are found in present-day Al Hillah, Babylon Province, Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 mi) south of Baghdad. All that remains of the original ancient famed city of Babylon today is a mound, or tell, of broken mud-brick buildings and debris in the fertile Mesopotamian plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The city itself was built upon the Euphrates, and divided in equal parts along its left and right banks, with steep embankments to contain the river's seasonal floods.
Available historical resources suggest that Babylon was at first a small town which had sprung up by the beginning of the 3rd millennium BC. The town flourished and attained independence with the rise of the First Amorite Babylonian Dynasty in 1894 BC. Claiming to be the successor of the ancient Eridu, Babylon eclipsed Nippur as the "holy city" of Mesopotamia around the time an Amorite king named Hammurabi first created the short lived Babylonian Empire; this quickly dissolved upon his death and Babylon spent long periods under Assyrian, Kassite and Elamite domination. Babylon again became the seat of the Neo-Babylonian Empire from 612 to 539 BC which was founded by Chaldeans and whose last king was an Assyrian. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. After the fall of Babylon it came under the rules of the Achaemenid, Seleucid, Parthian, Roman and Sassanid empires.

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Behistun Inscription
Coordinates: 34°23′18″N 47°26′12″E / 34.38833°N 47.43667°E / 34.38833; 47.43667
The Behistun Inscription (also Bistun or Bisutun, Modern Persian: بیستون < Old Persian: Bagastana, meaning "the place of god") is a multi-lingual inscription located on Mount Behistun in the Kermanshah Province of Iran, near the city of Kermanshah in western Iran.
Authored by Darius the Great sometime between his coronation as king of the Persian Empire in the summer of 522 BC and his death in autumn of 486 BC, the inscription begins with a brief autobiography of Darius, including his ancestry and lineage. Later in the inscription, Darius provides a lengthy sequence of events following the deaths of Cyrus the Great and Cambyses II in which he fought nineteen battles in a period of one year (ending in December of 521 BC) to put down multiple rebellions throughout the Persian Empire. The inscription states in detail that the rebellions, which had resulted from the deaths of Cyrus the Great and his son Cambyses II, were orchestrated by several impostors and their co-conspirators in various cities throughout the empire, each of whom falsely proclaimed kinghood during the upheaval following Cyrus's death.

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Ethiopia
Ethiopia ( /ˌiːθiˈoʊpiə/) (Ge'ez: ኢትዮጵያ ʾĪtyōṗṗyā), officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km². Ethiopia is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Djibouti and Somalia to the east, Sudan and South Sudan to the west, and Kenya to the south. With its capital at Addis Ababa, it is also the most populous landlocked nation in the world.
Ethiopia was a monarchy for most of its history, and the Ethiopian dynasty traces its roots to the 2nd century BC. Ethiopia is also one of the oldest sites of human existence known to scientists today, having yielded some of humanity's oldest traces. It may be the region from which Homo sapiens first set out for the Middle East and points beyond. Alongside Rome, Persia, China and India, the Ethiopian Aksum Empire was considered one of the great world powers of the 3rd century. During the Scramble for Africa, Ethiopia was the only African country beside Liberia that retained its sovereignty as a recognized independent country, and was one of only four African members of the League of Nations. After a brief period of Italian occupation, Ethiopia became a charter member of the United Nations. When other African nations received their independence following World War II, many of them adopted the colors of Ethiopia's flag, and Addis Ababa became the location of several international organizations focused on Africa.

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Medes
The Medes (/midz/) (from Old Persian Māda-) were an ancient Iranian people who lived in Iran in an area known as Media and spoke a northwestern Iranian language referred to as the Median language. Their arrival to the region is associated with the first wave of Iranian tribes in the late second millennium BCE (the Bronze Age collapse) through the beginning of the first millennium BCE.
In the 7th century BCE a unified Median state was formed which together with Babylonia, Lydia, and Egypt became one of the four major powers of the ancient Near East. An alliance with the Babylonians helped the Medes to capture Nineveh in 612 BCE which resulted in the collapse of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. The Medes were subsequently able to establish their Median kingdom (with Ecbatana as their royal centre) beyond their original homeland (central-western Iran) and had eventually a territory stretching roughly from northeastern Iran to the Halys River in Anatolia. The Median kingdom was conquered in 550 BCE by Cyrus the Great who established the next Iranian dynasty—the Achaemenid Empire.

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Nineveh
Coordinates: 36°21′34″N 43°09′10″E / 36.35944°N 43.15278°E / 36.35944; 43.15278
Nineveh (English pronunciation: /ˈnɪn.ɪv.ə/; Akkadian: Ninwe; Classical Syriac: ܢܸܢܘܵܐ‎; Hebrew: נינוה‎ Nīnewē; Greek: Νινευη Nineuē; Latin: Nineve; Arabic: نينوى‎ Naynuwa; Persian: نینوا‎ Nainavā) was an ancient Assyrian city on the eastern bank of the Tigris River, and capital of the Neo Assyrian Empire. Its ruins are across the river from the modern-day major city of Mosul, in the Ninawa Governorate of Iraq.
The origin of the name Nineveh is obscure. Possibly it meant originally the seat of Ishtar, since Nina was one of the Babylonian names of that goddess. The ideogram means "house or place of fish," and was perhaps due to popular etymology (comp. Aramaic "nuna," denoting "fish").
Ancient Nineveh's mound-ruins of Kouyunjik and Nabī Yūnus are located on a level part of the plain near the junction of the Tigris and the Khosr Rivers within a 7 km² (1732 acres) area circumscribed by a 12-kilometre (7.5 mi) brick rampart. This whole extensive space is now one immense area of ruins overlaid in parts by new suburbs of the city of Mosul.

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Cyrus the Great
Cyrus II of Persia (Old Persian: Kuruš (c. 600 BC or 576 BC–530 BC), commonly known as Cyrus the Great, also known as Cyrus the Elder, was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire. Under his rule, the empire embraced all the previous civilized states of the ancient Near East, expanded vastly and eventually conquered most of Southwest Asia and much of Central Asia, parts of Europe and the Caucasus. From the Mediterranean sea and Hellespont in the west to the Indus River in the east, Cyrus the Great created the largest empire the world had yet seen. He also pronounced one of the first historically important declarations of human rights via the Cyrus Cylinder sometime between 539-530 BCE.
The reign of Cyrus the Great lasted between 29 and 31 years. Cyrus built his empire by conquering first the Median Empire, then the Lydian Empire and eventually the Neo-Babylonian Empire. Either before or after Babylon, he led an expedition into central Asia, which resulted in major campaigns that were described as having brought "into subjection every nation without exception". Cyrus did not venture into Egypt, as he himself died in battle, fighting the Massagetae along the Syr Darya in December 530 BC. He was succeeded by his son, Cambyses II, who managed to add to the empire by conquering Egypt, Nubia, and Cyrenaica during his short rule.

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Darius the Mede
Darius the Mede is a biblical person in the Book of Daniel, Chapters 6-9, who rules over Babylon after King Belshazzar is deposed. The author of the book of Daniel indicated that Darius was about 62 years old when he was 'made king over Babylon.^[5:31] He is best known for having been forced into throwing Daniel in the lions' den.
No such person as Darius the Mede is known in history. However, there have been attempts to identify Darius the Mede with such persons as: Cyrus the Great, Darius the Great or Gubaru.
While mentioned in the book of Daniel, the works of Flavius Josephus, and Jewish Midrash material, Darius the Mede is not known from any other primary historical sources. Neither the Babylonian nor the Persian histories record such a person. Herodotus, who wrote his history about 440 BCE, records that Babylon fell to the Persian army, under the control of King Cyrus, who had conquered the Median Empire as early as 550 BCE.
The conqueror of Babylon was Gobryas, governor of Gutium, a general of Cyrus, king of Persia. The successor of Cyrus, as king of Persia, was known as Darius the Great. Scholar, John J. Collins, who shares the Maccabean thesis view, states that the author of Daniel inherited a schema of four kingdoms in which Media preceded Persia. Therefore, he suggests that it was highly probable that Daniel created the figure of Darius the Mede to fit this schema.

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Esther
Esther ( /ˈɛstər/; Hebrew: אֶסְתֵּר, Modern Ester Tiberian ʼEstēr), born Hadassah, is the eponymous heroine of the Biblical Book of Esther. According to the Bible, she was a Jewish queen of the Persian king Ahasuerus. Ahasuerus is traditionally identified with Xerxes I during the time of the Achaemenid empire. Her story is the basis for the celebration of Purim in Jewish tradition.
King Xerxes held a 180-day feast in Susa (Shoushan). While in "high spirits" from the wine, he ordered his queen, Vashti, to appear before him and his guests to display her beauty. But when the attendants delivered the king's command to Queen Vashti, she refused to come. Furious at her refusal to obey, the king asked his wise men what should be done. One of them said that all the women in the empire would hear that "The King Xerxes commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not." Then the women of the empire would despise their husbands. And this would cause many problems in the kingdom. Therefore it would be good to depose her.

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John of Ephesus
John of Ephesus (or of Asia) (c. 507 – c. 586) was a leader of the non-Chalcedonian Syriac-speaking Church in the sixth century, and one of the earliest and most important of historians who wrote in Syriac.
Born at Amida (modern Diyarbakır in southern Turkey) about 507, he was there ordained as a deacon in 529 by John of Tella but in 534 we find him in Palestine, and in 535 he passed to Constantinople. The cause of his leaving Amida might have been the great plague which broke out there in 542. However he also had already been traveling the region before in order to collect stories for his collection of saints lives. He was back in Amida at the start of the furious persecution directed against the Monophysites by Ephrem, patriarch of Antioch, and Abraham (bishop of Amida c. 520-541). Around 540 he returned to Constantinople and made it his residence.
In Constantinople he seems to have early won the notice of Justinian I, one of the main objects of whose policy was the consolidation of Eastern Christianity as a bulwark against the Zoroastrian power of Persia, through persecution of all the remaining pagans of the empire. John is said by Barhebraeus (Chron. eccl. i. 195) to have succeeded Anthimus as Monophysite bishop of Constantinople, but this is probably a mistake. In any case, he enjoyed the emperor's favor until the death of the latter in 565 and (as he himself tells us) was entrusted with the administration of the entire revenues of the Monophysite Church.

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Josephus
Titus Flavius Josephus (37 – c. 100), also called Joseph ben Matityahu (Biblical Hebrew: יוסף בן מתתיהו, Yosef ben Matityahu), was a 1st-century Romano-Jewish historian and hagiographer of priestly and royal ancestry who recorded Jewish history, with special emphasis on the 1st century AD and the First Jewish–Roman War, which resulted in the Destruction of Jerusalem and its temple in 70.
His most important works were The Jewish War (c. 75) and Antiquities of the Jews (c. 94).The Jewish War recounts the Jewish revolt against Roman occupation (66–70). Antiquities of the Jews recounts the history of the world from a Jewish perspective for an ostensibly Roman audience. These works provide valuable insight into 1st century Judaism and the background of Early Christianity (See main article Josephus on Jesus).
Josephus introduces himself in Greek as Iōsēpos (Ιώσηπος), son of Matthias, an ethnic Jew, a priest from Jerusalem" in his first book. He was the second-born son of Matthias and his wife, who was an unnamed Jewish noblewoman. His older brother, his full-blooded sibling, was also called Matthias. The mother of Josephus was an aristocratic woman who descended from royalty and of the former ruling Hasmonean Dynasty. Josephus’ paternal grandparents were Josephus and his wife, an unnamed Jewish noblewoman. His paternal grandparents were distant relatives of each other, as they were both direct descendants of Simon Psellus. Josephus came from a wealthy, aristocratic family and through his father, he descended from the priestly order of the Jehoiarib, which was the first of the 24 orders of Priests in the Temple in Jerusalem. Through his father, Josephus was a descendant of the High Priest Jonathon. Jonathon may have been Alexander Jannaeus, the High Priest and Hasmonean ruler who governed Judea from 103 BC-76 BC. Born and raised in Jerusalem, Josephus was educated alongside his brother.

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Medes
The Medes (/midz/) (from Old Persian Māda-) were an ancient Iranian people who lived in Iran in an area known as Media and spoke a northwestern Iranian language referred to as the Median language. Their arrival to the region is associated with the first wave of Iranian tribes in the late second millennium BCE (the Bronze Age collapse) through the beginning of the first millennium BCE.
In the 7th century BCE a unified Median state was formed which together with Babylonia, Lydia, and Egypt became one of the four major powers of the ancient Near East. An alliance with the Babylonians helped the Medes to capture Nineveh in 612 BCE which resulted in the collapse of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. The Medes were subsequently able to establish their Median kingdom (with Ecbatana as their royal centre) beyond their original homeland (central-western Iran) and had eventually a territory stretching roughly from northeastern Iran to the Halys River in Anatolia. The Median kingdom was conquered in 550 BCE by Cyrus the Great who established the next Iranian dynasty—the Achaemenid Empire.

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Mordecai
Mordecai or Mordechai (Hebrew: מָרְדֳּכַי, Modern Mordekhay Tiberian Mordŏḵáy, IPA value: [mɔrdɔ̆ˈxɑj]) is one of the main personalities in the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible. He was the son of Jair, of the tribe of Benjamin.
Mordecai resided in Susa (Shushan), the metropolis of Persia (now Iran). He adopted his cousin Hadassah (Esther), an orphan child, whom he brought up as his own daughter. When "young virgins" were sought, she was brought into the presence of King Ahasuerus and was made queen in the place of the exiled queen Vashti. Mordecai was referred to subsequently as one of those who "sat in the king's gate" to indicate his position of closeness to the king. While holding this office, he discovered a plot of the king's chamberlain's, eunuchs Bigthan and Teresh, to assassinate the king. Because of Mordecai's vigilance, the plot was foiled. His services to the king in this matter were duly recorded in the king's royal diary.

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Vashti
Queen Vashti (Hebrew: ושתי, Persian: وَشتی , Koine Greek: Αστιν, Astin) is the first wife of King Ahasuerus in the Book of Esther, a book included in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) and read on the Jewish holiday of Purim. She is banished for her refusal to appear at the king's banquet, and Esther is chosen to succeed her as queen. In the Midrash, Vashti is described as wicked and vain. She is viewed as an independent-minded heroine in feminist interpretations of the Purim story.
In the Book of Esther, Vashti is the wife of King Ahasuerus. While the king holds a magnificent banquet for his princes, nobles and servants, she holds a separate banquet for the women. On the seventh day of the banquet, when the king's heart was "merry with wine," the king orders his seven chamberlains to summon Vashti to come before him and his guests wearing her royal crown, in order to display her beauty. Vashti refuses to come, and the king becomes angry. He asks his advisers how Vashti should be punished for her disobedience. His adviser Memucan tells him that Vashti has wronged not only the king, but also all of the husbands of Persia, whose wives may be encouraged by Vashti's actions to disobey. Memucan encourages Ahasuerus to dismiss Vashti and find another queen. Ahasuerus takes Memucan's advice, and sends letters to all of the provinces that men should dominate in their households. Ahasuerus subsequently chooses Esther as his queen to replace Vashti.

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Xenophon
Xenophon (Ancient Greek: Ξενοφῶν, Xenophōn; c. 430 – 354 BC), son of Gryllus, of the deme Erchia of Athens, also known as Xenophon of Athens, was a Greek historian, soldier, mercenary, philosopher and a contemporary and admirer of Socrates. He is known for his writings on the history of his own times, the 4th century BC, preserving the sayings of Socrates, and descriptions of life in ancient Greece and the Persian Empire.
Xenophon's birth date is uncertain, but most scholars agree that he was born around 431 BC near the city of Athens. Xenophon was born into the ranks of the upper classes, thus granting him access to certain privileges of the aristocracy of ancient Attica. While a young man, Xenophon participated in the expedition led by Cyrus the Younger against his older brother, king Artaxerxes II of Persia, in 401 BC. Xenophon writes that he had asked the veteran Socrates for advice on whether to go with Cyrus, and that Socrates referred him to the divinely inspired Delphic oracle. Xenophon's query to the oracle, however, was not whether or not to accept Cyrus' invitation, but "to which of the gods he must pray and do sacrifice, so that he might best accomplish his intended journey and return in safety, with good fortune". The oracle answered his question and told him to which gods to pray and sacrifice. When Xenophon returned to Athens and told Socrates of the oracle's advice, Socrates chastised him for asking so disingenuous a question.

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Xerxes I of Persia
Xerxes I of Persia (/ˈzɜrksiːz/; Old Persian: Xšayaršā IPA: [xʃajaːrʃaː] meaning "ruling over heroes",Greek: Ξέρξης, Hebrew: אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ, Modern Aẖashverosh Tiberian ʼĂḥašwērôš), also known as Xerxes the Great (519 BC-465 BC), was the fourth king of the Achaemenid Empire.
Immediately after seizing the kingship, Darius I of Persia (son of Hystaspes) married Atossa (daughter of Cyrus the Great). They were both descendants of Achaemenes from different Achaemenid lines. Marrying a daughter of Cyrus strengthened Darius's position as king. Darius was an active emperor, busy with building programs in Persepolis, Susa, Egypt, and elsewhere. Toward the end of his reign he moved to punish Athens, but a new revolt in Egypt (probably led by the Persian satrap) had to be suppressed. Under Persian law, the Achaemenian kings were required to choose a successor before setting out on such serious expeditions. Upon his great decision to leave (487-486 BC), Darius prepared his tomb at Naqsh-e Rostam and appointed Xerxes, his eldest son by Atossa, as his successor. Darius's failing health then prevented him from leading the campaigns, and he died in October 486 BC.

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Zeresh
Zeresh was the wife of Haman the Agagite who is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in the Book of Esther.
Zeresh advised her husband to prepare a high gallows (50 cubits) and to hang Mordechai on it. This plan was reversed when the king later ordered Haman and his ten sons to be hanged on the same gallows which he had prepared for Mordechai.
Although it was written in the Hebrew Bible that Haman and his ten children were hanged on the gallows, it isn't mentioned what became of Zeresh.

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Esther #1 - The Ungodliness of Ahasuerus

Join Tom Cantor, President and Founder of Scantibodies Laboratory, Inc. as he journey's th...

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Eleven Shadow of Ahasuerus

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Ahasuerus McDonald, Flint Northwestern: A finisher in transition

This is how you finish in transition. Ahasuerus McDonald, Mid-Michigan Lakers, in May 2010...

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Dana International - Ahasuerus Purim Mix

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Esther's Revenge at Susa: From Sennacherib to Ahasuerus

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FRMC: The King Ahasuerus & Queen Vashti war, Purim 5771.

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King Ahasuerus's golden sceptre

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Ahasuerus - ты как

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King Ahasuerus's sceptre (part 2)

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1KING AHASUERUS laid a tribute (tax) on the land and on the coastlands of the sea. 2And al...

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In this Sept. 14, 2012 file photo, Libyan military guards check one of the burnt out buildings at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, during a visit by Libyan President Mohammed el-Megarif to express sympathy for the death of American ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and his colleagues in the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the consulate.

There are bigger issues to worry about than Benghazi

The News Tribune

25 Jan 2013

Republicans wanted nothing more than to summon Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Capitol Hill and grill her about the tragic fiasco in Benghazi. Sadly for them, they got their wish. Clinton’s smooth and confident performance at Wednesday’s Senate and House committee hearings was fun to watch. When her would-be inquisitors asked serious questions, she gave serious answers. But when Sen ... Fat chance ... Benghazi ... Perhaps not ... ....(size: 4.8Kb)

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A bronze bust of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is visible in the foreground as President Barack Obama meets with senior advisors, in the Oval Office, Feb. 4, 2010.

Same Bibles, Different Theologies and Histories

WorldNews.com

24 Jan 2013

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. In the world of politics and imagination, theater usually trumps theology while history is most often vanquished by histrionics. President Barack Obama's swearing-in ceremony for a second term reflects this truth, specifically as he uses two historic bibles-one belonging to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and another used only by Abraham Lincoln ... "With malice toward none; with charity for all."....(size: 7.3Kb)

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Why sticks don't work with North Korea

CNN

25 Jan 2013

By Charles Armstrong, Special to CNN. Editor’s note. Charles Armstrong is the director of the Center for Korean Research at Columbia University. The views expressed are his own. Anyone who has followed North Korean affairs for the last several years (or the last two decades) could have predicted North Korea’s defiant response to the U.N ... sanctions not by giving up missiles and nukes, but ratcheting up the rhetoric ... More from GPS ... Post by ... ... ....(size: 15.8Kb)

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Death sentences over Egypt football massacre

Al Jazeera

26 Jan 2013

An Egyptian court has handed down 21 death sentences in connection with the deadly riot last year at a football stadium in Port Said located along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. The defendants sentenced on Saturday are mostly members of the "Ultras," die-hard football fans who support Port Said's al-Masry squad ... Al-Masry fans stormed the pitch after their team won, throwing stones, bottles and fireworks at al-Ahly supporters....(size: 17.2Kb)

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Swine flu infected 'fifth of people'

BBC News

25 Jan 2013

At least one in five people, including half of schoolchildren, were infected with swine flu during the first year of the pandemic in 2009, according to data from 19 countries. It is thought the virus killed 200,000 people around the world. A World Health Organization-led study looked for evidence of the body's immune system fighting the virus ... Anti-bodies ... ....(size: 2.1Kb)

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The Guided Tour and Children’s Event Preview for January to March 2013. (...) (Jüdisches Museum Berlin)

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21 Dec 2012

(Source. Jüdisches Museum Berlin) The Guided Tour and Children's Event Preview for January to March 2013 at the Jewish Museum Berlin. Purim is one of the most joyful festivals in the Jewish calendar ... Obsessions ... Kitaj ... Cost ... The Persian king, Ahasuerus, marries the pretty Jew Esther ... What do the moody Queen Vashti and the king in love, King Ahasuerus, have in common? A rather unusual beauty contest changes the world in this fun puppet show....(size: 9.9Kb)

Chick-fil-A chief: 'We support Biblical families'

Yahoo Daily News

03 Oct 2012

THOMASTON, Ga. (AP) — Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy voiced his support for "Biblical families" in one of his first interviews since his earlier comments caused controversy regarding gay marriage ... He added "we support Biblical families, and they've always been a part of that." ... More Business News ... U.S ...   ... ... Become the emperor of a huge nation and hold a beauty contest.--Xerxes or Ahasuerus (Esther 2.3-4)....(size: 19.4Kb)

God of Our Foremothers -- Why I am a Feminist Jew

Huffington Post

02 Oct 2012

I am a feminist Jew because I am the mother of a daughter and a son ... But it came after a struggle ... Amen ... Loading Slideshow ... The Purim story begins in the palace of Shushan with King Ahasuerus and his wife, Queen Vashti, hosting separate men and women's feasts for the people of the town ... With Vashti gone, Ahasuerus needs a new queen, and he decides to choose his wife by inviting the virgins of his kingdom to compete in a beauty pageant ... ....(size: 14.1Kb)

Taking back America starts with obedience to God

The Examiner

25 Sep 2012

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What the Bible Says - And Doesn't Say - About Women

Huffington Post

22 Sep 2012

The Bible is notoriously hard on women ... First, the passage "doesn't say that a wife's worth is derived from her husband." ... The Purim story begins in the palace of Shushan with King Ahasuerus and his wife, Queen Vashti, hosting separate men and women's feasts for the people of the town ... With Vashti gone, Ahasuerus needs a new queen, and he decides to choose his wife by inviting the virgins of his kingdom to compete in a beauty pageant ... ....(size: 15.5Kb)

Job knowledge performance review

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01 Jul 2012

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Video, photos and more from Madonna's MDNA tour opener in Israel

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01 Jun 2012

Related. Video from Madonna MDNA tour opening concertView slideshow. Madonna MDNA opening concert in Tel Aviv. As always, the entertainer knows how to rock the promotion as well as the show ... Women’s Wear Daily had an exclusive first look at Madonna’s costumes ... Though not Jewish, Madonna is a student of Jewish mysticism, Kabbalah, and has taken on the Jewish name of Esther, the Biblical Jewish queen of the Persian king Ahasuerus ... Video....(size: 6.2Kb)

Drawings of Continental Drift

The New York Times

26 Apr 2012

At first glance “Storied Past. Four Centuries of French Drawings From the Blanton Museum of Art,” at the Grey Art Gallery, looks like a dreary affair. a gathering of little-known draftsmen, almost all of them beholden to the Academy ... ArtsBeat ... Go to Arts Beat » ... Mr ... Valentin Lefebvre’s pen-and-ink and wash drawing “Esther and Ahasuerus” (about 1650-75) exemplifies Mr ... And Impressionism? Forget about it ... N.Y ... ....(size: 11.1Kb)

Brazilian Senator Katia Abreu Arrives in China to Present Brazilian Sustainable Agribusiness

DNA India

23 Apr 2012

On Monday (23/04), the delegation led by Senator Katia Abreu has a meeting with officials of the National Board of Forestry ... Accompanying the president of CNA, vice president and director of infrastructure and logistics, Jose Ramos Torres de Melo, and the Presidents of the Federations of Agriculture of Acre, Ahasuerus Veronez Dock, Mato Grosso do Sul, Eduardo Riedel, Roraima, Almir Sa, and Santa Catarina, Jose Zeferino Pedrozo ... ....(size: 5.5Kb)

A Full Read on Netanyahu's Gift to Obama

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21 Mar 2012

She was taken to the house of Ahasuerus, King of Persia, where she became part of his harem ... However Esther's faith was of a mystery to the King, because Mordecai told her not to reveal that to Ahasuerus ... "The evil Persian king Ahasuerus and his viceroy, Haman, tried but failed to annihilate the Jewish people," reported Ha'aretz....(size: 8.0Kb)

Slapstick and lipstick

Ha'aretz

15 Mar 2012

On the morning of Purim I slipped on a banana peel. Really. And not a metaphorical banana peel, which used to serve our educators to warn us about throwing garbage on the sidewalk ... For the record, the whole incident lasted for two seconds at most ... One, Queen Vashti, a non-Jew, and an Iranian to boot − phooey on her! − refused to come and wiggle around King Ahasuerus as though she were a Playboy bunny and he were Hugh Hefner ... ....(size: 6.9Kb)

Queen Esther's triumph remembered at Temple B'nai Hayim's Purim carnival in Sherman Oaks

LA Daily News

12 Mar 2012

By Susan Abram, Staff Writerdailynews.com Posted.   03/12/2012 04.14.14 PM PDT March 12, 2012 11.22 PM GMT Updated. 03/12/2012 04.22.48 PM PDT ... They hear how the lovely Esther marries King Ahasuerus, and she becomes queen in a Persian kingdom ... Zoe Sansanowicz, 14, said Purim was like celebrating a second Halloween, where children and adults alike dress like Esther, Haman, or King Ahasuerus, all in good fun ... 818-713-3664, ... ... ....(size: 10.9Kb)

Kids With Autism at a Synagogue on Purim? Not a Prayer, Right?

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12 Mar 2012

I celebrated the Jewish holiday Purim last week at my synagogue. And Purim, along with a host of other Jewish holidays, will never be the same for me. Though I attend services at my synagogue regularly, it has never once occurred to me to bring along my older son, Nate, who has autism ... Until now ... Here is what I saw and heard ... What didn't I hear? The words "SSSHHHHH!" or "Sit down!" ... Dr ... Rabbi Levine dressed up as King Ahasuerus ...  . ....(size: 5.8Kb)

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Ahasuerus (Ancient Greek: Ξέρξης , Xerxes; Old Persian: Xšayārša; Hebrew: אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ, Modern Aẖashverosh Tiberian ʼĂḥašwērôš; Greek: Ασουηρος in the Septuagint; or Latin: Assuerus in the Vulgate; commonly transliterated Achashverosh) is a name used several times in the Hebrew Bible, as well as related legends and Apocrypha. This name (or title) is applied in the Hebrew Scriptures to three rulers. The same name (or title) is also applied uncertainly to a Babylonian official noted in the Book of Tobit.

1 Etymology
2 Biblical references
3 In legends
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

Etymology [link]

The name Ahasuerus is equivalent to the Greek name Xerxes, both deriving from the Old Persian language Xšayārša. The form Xerxes has not traditionally appeared in English Bibles,^[1] but has rather appeared as Ahasuerus. Many newer translations and paraphrases^[2] have used the name Xerxes.

The name Xerxes comes from the Greek Ξέρξης. The English name Ahasuerus is derived from a Latinized form of the Hebrew Akhashverosh (אחשורוש), which is a Hebrew rendering of the Babylonian Achshiyarshu: both this and the Greek Ξέρξης are renderings of the Old Persian Xšayāršā.^[3] Thus this literary change was created as the name moved across each of the language groups in a westerly direction from Persia until it entered English translations of the Bible.

Biblical references [link]

Book of Esther [link]

Henry Taylor as Ahasuerus in a photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron.

Ahasuerus is given as the name of the King of Persia in the Book of Esther.^[4] 19th century Bible commentaries generally identified him with Xerxes I of Persia.^[5] The Greek version (Septuagint) of the Book of Esther refers to him as Artaxerxes, and the historian Josephus relates that this was the name by which he was known to the Greeks.^[6] Similarly, the Vulgate, the Midrash of Esther Rabba, I, 3 and the Josippon identify the King as Artaxerxes. The Ethiopic text calls him Arťeksis, usually the Ethiopic equivalent of Artaxerxes. John of Ephesus and Bar-Hebraeus identified him as Artaxerxes II, a view strongly supported by the 20th century scholar Jacob Hoschander.^[7] Masudi recorded the Persian view of events which affirms the identification and al-Tabari similarly placed the events during the time of Artaxerxes II despite being confused by the Hebrew name for the king. Esther Rabba and the Vulgate present "Ahasuerus" as a different name for the king to "Artaxerxes" rather than an equivalent in different languages, and the Septuagint distinguished between the two names using a Greek transliteration of Ahasuerus for occurrences outside the Book of Esther. Indeed an inscription from the time of Ataxerxes II records that he was also known as Arshu understood to be a shortening of the Babylonian form Achshiyarshu derived from the Persian Khshayarsha (Xerxes). The Greek historians Ctesias and Deinon noted that Artaxerxes II was also called Arsicas or Oarses respectively similarly understood to be derived from Khshayarsha, the former as the shortened form together with the Persian suffix -ke applied to such shortened names.^[7]

Book of Ezra [link]

Ahasuerus is also given as the name of a King of Persia in the Book of Ezra.^[8] Jewish tradition regards him as the same Ahasuerus of the Book of Esther^{[citation needed]}; the Ethiopic text calls him Arťeksis, as it does the above figure in Esther.^{[citation needed]} Modern commentators associate him either with Cambyses^[9] or with the pseudo-Smerdis who reigned for seven months between Cambyses and Darius I.^[10]

Book of Daniel [link]

Ahasuerus is given as the name of the father of Darius the Mede in the Book of Daniel.^[11] Josephus names Astyages as the father of Darius the Mede, and the description of the latter as uncle and father-in-law of Cyrus by mediaeval Jewish commentators matches that of Cyaxares II, who is said to be the son of Astyages by Xenophon. Thus this Ahasuerus is commonly identified with Astyages. He is alternatively identified, together with the Ahasuerus of the Book of Tobit, as Cyaxares I, said to be the father of Astyages. Views differ on how to reconcile the sources in this case. One view is that the description of Ahasuerus as the "father" of Darius the Mede should be understood in the broader sense of "forebear" or "ancestor." Another view notes that on the Behistun Inscription, "Cyaxares" is a family name, and thus considers the description as literal, viewing Astyages as an intermediate ruler wrongly placed in the family line in the Greek sources.

Book of Tobit [link]

In some versions of the apocryphal or deuterocanonical Book of Tobit, Ahasuerus is given as the name of an associate of Nebuchadnezzar, who together with him, destroyed Nineveh just before Tobit's death.^[12] A traditional Catholic view is that he is identical to the Ahasuerus of Daniel 9:1^[13] In the Codex Sinaiticus Greek (LXX) edition, the two names in this verse appear instead as one name, Ahikar (also the name of another character in the story of Tobit). Other Septuagint texts have the name Achiachar. Western scholars have proposed that Achiachar is a variant form of the name "Cyaxares I of Media", who historically did destroy Nineveh, in 612 BC.

In legends [link]

In some versions of the legend of the Wandering Jew, his true name is held to be "Ahasuerus."^[14]

References [link]

^ KJV, NASB, Amplified Bible, ESV, 21st Century King James Version, ASV, Young's Literal Translation, Darby Translation, Holman Christian Standard Bible, etc.
^ NIV, The Message, NLT, CEV, NCV, NIRV, TNIV, etc.
^ Nichol, F.D., Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, Volume 3, Review and Herald Publishing Association, (Washington, D.C., 1954 edition), p.459, "Historical Setting"
^ Esther 1
^ The Religious Policy of Xerxes and the "Book of Esther", Littman, Robert J., The Jewish Quarterly Review, 65.3, Jan 1975, p.145-148.
^ Ahasuerus at the JewishEncyclopedia.com
^ ^a ^b Jacob Hoschander, The Book of Esther in the Light of History, Oxford University Press, 1923
^ Ezra 4:5-7
^ Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible, as quoted by Bible.cc/ezra/4-7.htm
^ Clarke's Commentary on the Bible, as quoted by Bible.cc/ezra/4-7.htm
^ Daniel 9:1
^ Book of Tobit, 14:15.
^ Maas, A. (1907). Assuerus. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved April 15, 2009 from New Advent: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02005c.htm
^ Andrei Oişteanu, "The legend of the wandering Jew in Europe and Romania.". Archived from the original on 2008-02-03. http://web.archive.org/web/20080203154217/http://www.unibuc.ro/eBooks/filologie/hebra/2-5.htm. Retrieved 2008-03-12. Studia Hebraica.

External links [link]

The Wandering Jew Curious Myths of the Middle Ages by Sabine Baring-Gould, M.A.
"Assuerus". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913.

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Dana International (דנה אינטרנשיונל)
Dana International in 2007.
Background information
Birth name	Yaron Cohen
Born	(1972-02-02) February 2, 1972 (age 40) Tel Aviv, Israel
Genres	Dance, Pop, World, Trance
Occupations	Singer-songwriter
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	1992–present
Labels	Hed Arzi Music
Website	www.DanaInternational.co.il

Sharon Cohen (Hebrew: שרון כהן‎), professionally known as Dana International (דנה אינטרנשיונל; born Yaron Cohen ירון כהן; February 2, 1972) is an Israeli pop singer of Yemenite Jewish ancestry. She has released eight albums and three additional compilation albums, positioning herself as one of Israel's most successful musical acts ever. She is most famous for having won the Eurovision Song Contest 1998 in Birmingham with the song "Diva".

Born male, Dana discovered that she was transsexual at an early age, coming out when she was 13. Undergoing sex reassignment surgery in 1993, it was that year that she released her first album, Danna International, upon which she based her stage name. Consolidating her initial commercial success with the albums Umpatampa (1994) and Maganuna (1996), in 1998 she was selected to represent Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest with her song "Diva"; subsequently winning the international competition, Dana came to public attention throughout Europe.

Following this up with the albums Free (1999), Yoter VeYoter (2001), HaHalom HaEfshari (2002) and Hakol Ze Letova (2008), in 2011 she once more represented Israel in Eurovision, this time with the song "Ding Dong", although failed to make it into the final. That same year she also became a judge on the Israeli television music talent contest Kokhav Nolad.^[1]

Dana International has been credited with being one of the world's best known transsexuals. In 2005, a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to list those perceived as the 200 Greatest Israelis saw Dana voted the 47th-greatest Israeli of all time.^[2]

1 Early life
2 Career
3 Discography
4 References
5 External links

Early life [link]

Yaron Cohen was born in Tel Aviv to a Jewish family of Yemenite and Romanian descent. In an interview, she said her grandfather originated from Transylvania (Romania).^[3] Her paternal grandparents lived in Petah Tikva. She was the youngest of three children, and was named after an uncle who had been killed during a terrorist attack.

Though born male, she identified as a female from a very young age. She wanted to become a singer since the age of eight, when she watched legendary Israeli singer Ofra Haza perform her song "Chai" in the 1983 Eurovision Song Contest. Although the family was quite poor, her mother worked to pay for her music lessons, and she claims that her childhood was happy. She came out as transsexual at the age of 13.

The first tragedy in Dana International's life was the death of her best friend Daniel, who died in a car accident. She asserts that Daniel had prophesied that she would someday have a successful singing career, and claims that Daniel's prediction is what pushed her to become the singer she wanted to be. The stage name she adopted, Dana or Danna, is the feminine version of Daniel's abbreviated name, Dan or Danny.^{[citation needed]}

Career [link]

1990–93: Dana International [link]

At 18 years of age, Cohen (still legally male) earned a living as Israel's first drag queen parodying many famous female singers. During one of her performances, she was discovered by Offer Nissim, a well-known Israeli DJ, who produced her debut single "Saida Sultana" ("My Name is Not Saida"), a satirical version of Whitney Houston's song "My Name Is Not Susan".^[4] The song received considerable exposure and helped launch her career as a professional singer.^[4]

In 1993, Dana International flew to London for male-to-female sex reassignment surgery and legally changed her name to Sharon Cohen.^[5] Returning home with her new name, that same year Cohen released her first album, entitled Danna International in Israel. Soon after, the album was also released in several other countries including Greece, Jordan, and Egypt (In Jordan and Egypt the album sold illegally). Sharon's stage name Dana International comes from the title track of the album, and was originally spelled with two n:s. Danna International soon became a gold record in Israel.^[6]

1994: Umpatampa and Best Female Artist [link]

In 1994 Dana released her second, Trance-influenced album Umpatampa, which built on the success of her debut and provided further hit singles.^[7] The album went platinum in Israel and has sold more than 50,000 copies to date. Because of her popularity and the success of this album, she won the award for Best Female Artist of the Year in Israel.

1995: Eurovision song contest [link]

In 1995, Dana attempted to fulfill her childhood dream of performing in the Eurovision Song Contest.^[8] She entered the Eurovision qualifying contest in Israel with a song entitled "Layla Tov, Eropa" ("Good Night Europe") which finished second in the pre-selections, but became another hit single.

In late 1995, Dana released an E.P. called E.P. Tampa with three new songs and four remixes and special versions of her earlier songs.

1996–97: Consolidating popularity [link]

In 1996, Dana released her third album, Maganuna. Although this album was less successful than her previous efforts, it still reached gold record sales in Israel and included the hits "Don Quixote," "Waving," and the club smash "Cinque Milla." In 1997, Dana collaborated with the Israeli artist Eran Zur on his album Ata Havera Sheli, and together they sang the duet "Shir Kdam-Shnati (Sex Acher)" ("Pre-Bed Song (A Different Kind of Sex)") which became a huge hit.^[9]

[edit] 1998: Diva and mainstream spotlight

Dana was chosen to represent Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 1998 in Birmingham with the song "Diva". Orthodox Jews and others with conservative views were opposed to her appointment and attempted to void her participation in the contest. However, in May 1998, Dana performed "Diva" at the Eurovision final and won the contest with 174 points. She became an international superstar, and was interviewed by CNN, BBC, Sky News, and MTV among others mostly focusing on her life as a transsexual person before winning the contest. Dana's own words "the message of reconciliation" were; "My victory proves God is on my side. I want to send my critics a message of forgiveness and say to them: try to accept me and the kind of life I lead. I am what I am and this does not mean I don't believe in God, and I am part of the Jewish Nation."^[10]

Dana released "Diva" as a single in Europe^[11] and it became a hit, reaching number 11 in the UK charts and the top ten in Sweden, Belgium, Finland, Ireland, and the Netherlands.

1999–2001: Stage falling, Streisand cover and new albums [link]

In 1999, Dana released Woman In Love, a Barbra Streisand cover, but it was not the hit that "Diva" had been. In May 1999, Dana again participated in the Eurovision Song Contest held in Jerusalem. Dana was a part of the interval act and sang the Stevie Wonder song "Free". She also presented the award to the winners of the contest but accidentally managed to steal their thunder. Whilst she was carrying the heavy trophy, one of the composers of the winning Swedish entry by mistake stepped on the long trail of her dress and she fell over on stage – in front of a television audience estimated be to one billion or more, arguably making it one of the most memorable moments in the 50-year-long history of the contest.

She released her next album Free in Europe in 1999, which enjoyed moderate success. A few months later Dana moved back to Israel and started to work on different projects. Israeli and Japanese editions of Free were released in 2000. That same year, an Israeli documentary film was made about Dana called Lady D.

In 2001, after a break, Dana released her seventh album Yoter Ve Yoter (More and More).^[12] The album put her career in Israel back on track and provided two hits called "I Won" and "After All", which eventually both went gold.

2002–06: Fading from the scene and Sony incident [link]

Dana was about to sign with a major label, Sony/BMG, for an international recording contract but something went wrong in negotiations. These were disagreements that led to Sony cancelling the deal before it was completed. In 2002, she released another album, HaHalom HaEfshari (The Possible Dream), which was a minor chart success. In 2003, she released an exclusive 8 CD box set, containing all singles from The Possible Dream and a new house version of the hit single "Cinque Milla", titled A.lo.ra.lo.la. A few years later, in 2005, Dana participated in the 50th anniversary of the Eurovision song contest, held in Copenhagen, after "Diva" was selected as one of fourteen songs considered to be the best Eurovision songs. The song did not make it into the final top five but, Dana got the chance to perform both "Diva" and an old Eurovision favourite of hers; Baccara's 1978 entry "Parlez-Vous Francais?". She also recorded the song "Lola" (sung in French), to which she released a video. This video can be found on the CD Hakol Ze Letova, released in 2007 as a bonus CD-rom video.

In 2005, Dana was voted the 47th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet, to determine who the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.^[2]

2007–today: Return to music and Eurovision comeback [link]

Dana International, alongside Boaz Mauda (2008)

Dana International on stage at the 100th anniversary for Tel Aviv (2009)

After a few years away from show business, together with the relaunch of her official website, a first single of the upcoming album was released in March 2007: "Hakol Ze Letova" ("It's All For the Best"). The second single to be released from the album, "Love Boy", became the most played song on Israeli radio in a decade.^[13] It also gained a respectable place on the airplay of the Greek radio station FLY FM 89,7. The following album, also titled Hakol Ze Letova, was released on August 15, 2007. "At Muhana" was the third single and "Seret Hodi" (feat. Idan Yaniv)^[14] the fourth to be released from the album, which became a bestseller in many online stores. The next single released from the album was "Yom Huledet".

On February 26, 2008, Dana gained an additional achievement when the song "Ke'ilu Kan" written and composed by her and performed by Boaz Mauda, was chosen on Kdam Eurovision to represent Israel at Eurovision Song Contest 2008 in Belgrade, Serbia. It came 5th in the semi-final and gained 9th place in the final rank.

Currently, Dana International is in the studio putting the finishing touches on her next album. Dana has also recorded a song called "Mifrats Ha Ahava" ("The Love Bay") for an Israeli version of the TV-show "Paradise Hotel". She recently collaborated with the Ukrainian duo NeAngely (Not Angels). They recorded the song "I Need Your Love" together and released a video. In 2009 Dana starred in a mock reality show called Dana Kama/Nama for cellphone provider Cellcom^[15]

Dana campaigned for Kadima chairwoman Tzipi Livni shortly before 2009 legislative elections in Israel. At a women's political rally in Jerusalem Dana performed a bouncy disco song right beside Livni onstage. Dana announced, "I now formally invite you to the diva sisterhood."^[16]

In April 2009 Dana performed in the opening concert of Tel Aviv-Yafo Centennial Year. She performed a cover version of Danny Robas' song "Lo nirdemet Tel Aviv" (Tel Aviv doesn't fall asleep) in front of 250,000 people.

2008

On May 18, 2009, Dana International shut down her current website in hopes of launching her new website promoting her new album.

Also in 2009, Dana International joined the 7th season of "Kokhav Nolad" (the Israeli version of Pop Idol) as a judge and joined the 8th one as well in 2010.^[17]

Dana made a guest appearance, as herself, in an episode of the second series of UK sitcom Beautiful People, which was set around her Eurovision appearance. She is currently working on her next studio album, which is due to be released later in 2011.

Early in February, it was announced by IBA that Dana was preparing for a comeback in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Germany with the self-penned song Ding Dong and would compete in the Israeli National Final for 2011. On March 8 Dana International won the final and represented Israel at Eurovision for a second time.^[18] However, she did not make it into the final, she was the first Eurovision winner not to do so.

Discography [link]

1993 Danna International (Offer Nissim Presents), IMP Dance
1994 Umpatampa, IMP Dance
1995 E.P.Tampa (Offer Nissim Featuring), IMP Dance
1996 Maganuna (Crazy), Helicon/Big Foot
1998 Diva - The Hits, IMP Dance
1998 Dana International The Album, Helicon/Big Foot/PolyGram
1999 Free, (European edition), CNR Music
2000 Free, (Israeli edition), NMC
2000 Free, (Japanese edition), NXCA
2001 Yoter Ve Yoter (More and more), NMC
2002 HaHalom HaEfshari (The possible dream), IMP Dance
2003 The CDs collection, IMP Dance
2007 Hakol Ze Letova (It's all for the best), Hed Arzi Ltd.
2011 Ding Dong

References [link]

^ Nikia Brown proceeds in Kochav Nolad. Jerusalem Post
^ ^a ^b גיא בניוביץ' (June 20, 1995). "הישראלי מספר 1: יצחק רבין – תרבות ובידור". Ynet. http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3083171,00.html. Retrieved July 10, 2011.
^ Dana International – Interview (Romania), Youtube
^ ^a ^b Billboard. May 23, 1998. http://books.google.com/books?id=jQ4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA10&dq=%22Dana+International%22+%22whitney+houston%22&hl=en&ei=JeFSTqzkMovAgQfbi6mJBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA. Retrieved August 22, 2011.
^ Out. http://books.google.com/books?id=PWIEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA50&dq=%22Dana+International%22+%22sharon%22&hl=en&ei=U-FSToSqDoTTgQfphcT9Bg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAw. Retrieved August 22, 2011.
^ Thomas Peele. Queer popular culture: literature, media, film, and television. http://books.google.com/books?id=1Z3ChYp6PUIC&pg=PA121&dq=%22Dana+International%22+%22gold%22&hl=en&ei=m-FSTr76BsjngQeM6PiSBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA. Retrieved August 22, 2011.
^ John Shepherd (2005). Continuum encyclopedia of popular music of the world. http://books.google.com/books?id=jhUKAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Dana+International%22+trance&dq=%22Dana+International%22+trance&hl=en&ei=-uFSTpuTNYrbgQeAkK3rBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA. Retrieved August 22, 2011.
^ Lee Walzer (April 15, 2000). Between Sodom and Eden: a gay journey through today's changing Israel. http://books.google.com/books?id=TRIfClIjBBQC&pg=PA172&dq=%22Dana+International%22+eurovision+1995&hl=en&ei=a-JSTubpMo7PgAeu98yLBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAQ. Retrieved August 22, 2011.
^ Richard Middleton. Voicing the popular: on the subjects of popular music. http://books.google.com/books?id=kTTNfj4nbaMC&pg=PA134&dq=%22Dana+International%22+kind+of+sex&hl=en&ei=kOJSTqCwKsrogQeB-PD-DQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAg. Retrieved August 22, 2011.
^ Jeffrey Heyman. "Dana International - the most famous transsexual in the world". http://www.israel21c.org/people/dana-international-returns-to-eurovision. Retrieved August 22, 2011.
^ John Snelson. Andrew Lloyd Webber. http://books.google.com/books?id=RRFx7fFsi0AC&pg=PA228&dq=%22Dana+International%22+diva+11&hl=en&ei=8eJSTqCoGMPagQez5qmNBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEoQ6AEwBg. Retrieved August 22, 2011.
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Awards and achievements
Preceded by Harel Skaat with Milim	Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011	Succeeded by Izabo with Time
Preceded by Katrina and the Waves with Love Shine a Light	Winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 1998	Succeeded by Charlotte Nilsson with Take Me to Your Heaven
Preceded by Liora with Amen	Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 1998	Succeeded by Eden with Yom Huledet

v t e Dana International

Studio albums	Danna International (Offer Nissim Presents) (1993) Umpatampa (1994) E.P.Tampa (Offer Nissim Featuring) (1995) Maganuna (1996) Free (1999) Yoter VeYoter (2001) HaHalom HaEfshari (2002) Hakol Ze Letova (2007)

Compilations	Diva - The Hits (1998) Dana International The Album (1998)

Singles	"Diva" (1998) "Ding Dong" (2011)

Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest

Participation

1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 ~~1980~~ 1981 1982 1983 ~~1984~~ 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 ~~1994~~ 1995 ~~1996 to 1997~~ 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Artists

1970s	Ilanit Kaveret Shlomo Artzi Chocolat, Menta, Mastik Ilanit Izhar Cohen & the Alphabeta Gali Atari & Milk and Honey

1980s	~~1980~~ Hakol Over Habibi Avi Toledano Ofra Haza ~~1984~~ Izhar Cohen Moti Giladi & Sarai Tzuriel Datner & Kushnir Yardena Arazi Gili & Galit

1990s	Rita Duo Datz Dafna Dekel Sarah'le Sharon & The Shiru Group ~~1994~~ Liora ~~Galit Bell~~ ~~1997~~ Dana International Eden

2000s	PingPong Tal Sondak Sarit Hadad Lior Narkis David D'Or Shiri Maimon Eddie Butler Teapacks Bo'az Ma'uda Noa & Mira Awad

2010s	Harel Skaat Dana International Izabo

Songs

1970s	"Ey Sham" "Natati La Khayay" "At Va'Ani" "Emor Shalom" "Ahava Hi Shir Lishnayim" "A-Ba-Ni-Bi" "Hallelujah"

1980s	~~1980~~ "Halayla" "Hora" "Khay" ~~1984~~ "Olé, Olé" "Yavo Yom" "Shir Habatlanim" "Ben Adam" "Derekh Hamelekh"

1990s	"Shara Barkhovot" "Kan" "Ze Rak Sport" "Shiru" ~~1994~~ "Amen" ~~"Shalom Olam"~~ ~~1997~~ "Diva" "Yom Huledet (Happy Birthday)"

2000s	"Sameach" "En Davar" "Nadlik Beyakhad Ner (Light A Candle)" "Milim La'Ahava" "Leha'amin" "HaSheket SheNish'ar" "Together We Are One" "Push the Button" "The Fire In Your Eyes" "There Must Be Another Way"

2010s	"Milim" "Ding Dong" "Time"

(Note: Entries scored out are when Israel did not compete)

v t e Kokhav Nolad

Seasons	1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10

Hosts	Zvika Hadar (1–present)

Judges	Tzedi Tzarfati (2–present) · Roni Brown (2) · Ricky Gal (2–3) · Svika Pick (3–7) · Margalit Tzan'ani (4–9) · Gal Ohovski (4–8) · Dana International (7–8) · Pavlo Rosenberg (8) · Miri Mesika (9–present) · Yair Nitzani (9) · Gidi Gov (10–present) · Moshe Peretz (10–present)

Winners	Ninet Tayeb · Harel Moyal · Yehuda Saado · Jacko Eisenberg · Bo'az Ma'uda · Israel Bar-On · Roni Dalumi · Diana Golbi · Hagit Yaso

Notable alumni	Shiri Maimon · Shai Gabso · Harel Skaat · Marina Maximilian Blumin · Chen Aharoni · Kabra Kasai · Mei Finegold · Omer Adam

v t e Winning performers of the Eurovision Song Contest

1950s	Lys Assia Corry Brokken André Claveau Teddy Scholten

1960s	Jacqueline Boyer Jean-Claude Pascal Isabelle Aubret Grethe and Jørgen Ingmann Gigliola Cinquetti France Gall Udo Jürgens Sandie Shaw Massiel Frida Boccara Lenny Kuhr Lulu Salomé

1970s	Dana Séverine Vicky Leandros Anne-Marie David ABBA Teach-In Brotherhood of Man Marie Myriam Izhar Cohen / Alphabeta Gali Atari / Milk and Honey

1980s	Johnny Logan Bucks Fizz Nicole Corinne Hermès Herrey's Bobbysocks! Sandra Kim Johnny Logan Celine Dion Riva

1990s	Toto Cutugno Carola Linda Martin Niamh Kavanagh Paul Harrington / Charlie McGettigan Secret Garden Eimear Quinn Katrina and the Waves Dana International Charlotte Nilsson

2000s	Olsen Brothers Tanel Padar / Dave Benton / 2XL Marie N. Sertab Erener Ruslana Helena Paparizou Lordi Marija Šerifović Dima Bilan Alexander Rybak

2010s	Lena Ell & Nikki Loreen

v t e Selected participants in Congratulations: 50 Years of the Eurovision Song Contest

ABBA Brotherhood of Man Celine Dion Sertab Erener France Gall Dana International Johnny Logan Domenico Modugno Mocedades Nicole Olsen Brothers Elena Paparizou Cliff Richard

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Name	International, Dana
Alternative names
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Date of birth	1972-02-02
Place of birth	Tel Aviv, Israel
Date of death
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