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Elijah
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Elijah (lived c. mid-9th century BC)

In the Old Testament, a Hebrew prophet during the reigns of the Israelite kings Ahab and Ahaziah. He came from Gilead. He defeated the prophets of Baal, and was said to have been carried up to heaven in a fiery chariot in a whirlwind. In Jewish belief, Elijah will return to earth to herald the coming of the Messiah.

Elijah

Oratorio by Felix Mendelssohn (words from the Old Testament), produced first in the English version at the Birmingham Festival, England, on 26 August 1846; the first German performance was given in Hamburg on 7 October 1847.



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Eliahu also began his working life at 14 picking bananas on a kibbutz in Israel.
193) The chief rabbi of the Sephardic community, Mordechai Eliahu, whose position is established by statute, (194) ruled in 1985 that Jewish law forbids a Jew to sell or lease housing to an Arab in any area of Israel where Jews live or are preparing to live.
Former Sephardi chief rabbi Mordechai Eliahu declared that the disengagement simply would not happen.
 
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