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The Judaean Mountains or Judaean Hills (" Harei Yehuda ", " Jibal Al Khalil "), is a mountain range in ___MASK55___ and the West Bank where Jerusalem and several other biblical cities are located . The mountains reach a height of . The Judean Mountains can be separated to a number of sub - regions , including the Mount Hebron ridge , the Jerusalem ridge and the Judean slopes . These mountains formed the heartland of the Kingdom of Judah , where the earliest Jewish settlements emerged . Jerusalem Is Proud to Present is a 2008 documentary film directed by Nitzan Gilady about the 2006 World Pride Festival , an LGBT festival held in Jerusalem . It follows the lives of members of the Open House , Jerusalem ' s LGBT community center , who are planning the events , the threats they and their families receive , but refuse to back down . The poster of the documentary features a young Israeli man who vows to lead the parade despite having been stabbed by a fanatic at a previous parade . The film relates the controversy over the festival , with orthodox Jews , evangelical Christians , and conservative Muslims united in their dislike of a gay festival being held in a city they consider holy . The film had its U . S . premiere at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival on 29 July 2008 , and showed in 60 film festivals winning prizes . In Satmar Custody ( 2003 ) In Satmar Custody reveals the story of the Jaradi  s , a Jewish Yemenite family , one of many that were brought from Yemen to the US ( Monroe , NY ) by the Ultra orthodox Satmar Community which operates a propaganda machine against the immigration to ___MASK55___ . The story exposes a deep cultural gap between the Yemenite families and the Yiddish Satmar Community that became distractive and tragic to families who have traveled thousands of miles to an entirely different planet of their own , with strange rules , norms , morals and lifestyles . The film follows the life of Yahia and Lauza Jaradi who were brought from Yemen into the Satmar Community . It starts on the day that the Jaradi couple received an urgent phone call notifying that their two and a half year old daughter , Hadia , died in a hospital in Paterson , N . J . Through their search for their daughter  s body , they are getting closer and closer to what seems as the very painful truth about her faith . The Kingdom of Judah (" Mamlekhet Yehudh ") was an Iron Age kingdom of the Southern Levant . The ___MASK65___ Bible depicts it as the successor to a United Monarchy , but historians are divided about the veracity of this account . In the 10th and early 9th centuries BCE the territory of Judah appears to have been sparsely populated , limited to small rural settlements , most of them unfortified . Jerusalem , the kingdom ' s capital , likely did not emerge as a significant administrative centre until the end of the 8th century , prior to this archaeological evidence suggests its population was too small to sustain a viable kingdom . In the 7th century its population increased greatly , prospering under Assyrian vassalage ( despite Hezekiah ' s revolt against the Assyrian king Sennacherib ), but in 605 the Assyrian Empire was defeated , and the ensuing competition between the Twenty - sixth Dynasty of Egypt and the Neo - Babylonian Empire for control of the Eastern Mediterranean led to the destruction of the kingdom in a series of campaigns between 597 and 582 , the deportation of the elite of the community , and the incorporation of Judah into a province of the Neo - Babylonian Empire . The Dead Sea ( lit . Salt Sea ), is a salt lake bordered by Jordan to the east and ___MASK55___ and Palestine to the west . Its surface and shores are below sea level , Earth ' s lowest elevation on land . The Dead Sea is deep , the deepest hypersaline lake in the world . With 34 . 2 % salinity ( in 2011 ), it is 9 . 6 times as salty as the ocean , and one of the world ' s saltiest bodies of water . This salinity makes for a harsh environment in which plants and animals cannot flourish , hence its name . The Dead Sea is long and wide at its widest point . It lies in the Jordan Rift Valley and its main tributary is the Jordan River . ___MASK55___ , officially known as the State of ___MASK55___ , is a country in the Middle East , on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea . It has land borders with Lebanon to the north , Syria to the northeast , Jordan on the east , the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip to the east and west , respectively , and Egypt to the southwest . The country contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area . ___MASK55___ ' s financial and technology center is Tel Aviv , while its seat of government and proclaimed capital is Jerusalem , although the state ' s sovereignty over the city of Jerusalem is internationally unrecognized . Jerusalem , is a city located on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea . One of the oldest cities in the world , Jerusalem was named as "" Urusalima "" on ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets , probably meaning " City of Shalem " after a Canaanite deity , during the early Canaanite period ( approximately 2400 BCE ). During the Israelite period , significant construction activity in Jerusalem began in the 9th century BCE ( Iron Age II ), and in the 8th century the city developed into the religious and administrative center of the Kingdom of Judah . It is considered a holy city in the three major Abrahamic religions of Judaism , Christianity and Islam . Judaism ( from , derived from ___MASK34___ , originally from ___MASK65___ , " Yehudah ", " Judah "; in ___MASK65___ : , " Yahadut ", the distinctive characteristics of the Judean ethnos ) encompasses the religion , philosophy , culture and way of life of the Jewish people . Judaism is an ancient monotheistic religion , with the Torah as its foundational text ( part of the larger text known as the Tanakh or ___MASK65___ Bible ), and supplemental oral tradition represented by later texts such as the Midrash and the Talmud . Judaism is considered by religious Jews to be the expression of the covenantal relationship that God established with the Children of Israel . With between 14 . 5 and 17 . 4 million adherents worldwide , Judaism is the tenth - largest religion in the world . Nitzan Gilady ( also known as Nitzan Giladi ) is an Israeli film director who has written , produced and directed the documentary films " In Satmar Custody " ( 2003 ) and " Jerusalem Is Proud to Present " ( 2008 ) and " The Last Enemy " and " It runs in the Family " ( 2010 ). Canaan ( Northwest Semitic : ""; Phoenician :  ; Biblical ___MASK65___ / Masoretic : ["; n  an ]") was a Semitic - speaking region in the Ancient Near East during the late 2nd millennium BC . In the Bible it corresponds to the Levant , in particular to the areas of the Southern Levant that provide the main setting of the narrative of the ___MASK65___ Bible , i . e ., the area of Israel , Philistia , Phoenicia , and other nations .