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Section sizes

Section size for History of Israel (60 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	9,887	9,887
Prehistory	3,822	5,229
Periodisation	1,407	1,407
Bronze Age Canaan	5,565	5,565
Ancient Israel and Judah: Iron Age to Babylonian period	127	30,237
Early Israelites (Iron Age I)	4,711	4,711
Israel and Judah (Iron Age II)	12,536	19,217
Assyrian invasions	6,681	6,681
Babylonian period (587–538 BCE)	131	6,182
First revolt, 597 defeat	2,367	2,367
Second revolt, 587/86 defeat	2,830	2,830
Babylonian diaspora after 587/86 BCE	854	854
Second Temple period	57	22,046
Persian period (538–332 BCE)	3,936	3,936
Hellenistic period (333–64 BCE)	9,064	9,064
Early Roman period (64 BCE–2nd century CE)	2,912	2,912
Jewish–Roman wars	6,077	6,077
Late Roman and Byzantine periods	82	15,848
Late Roman period (136–390)	9,618	9,618
Byzantine period (390–634)	6,148	6,148
Early Muslim period	3,594	9,918
Demographic changes	6,324	6,324
Crusades and Mongols	5,233	5,233
Mamluk period	3,899	3,899
Ottoman period	463	15,420
Old Yishuv	5,413	5,413
Birth of Zionism	5,592	5,592
World War I	3,952	3,952
Mandatory Palestine	54	45,787
First years	10,019	10,019
Increase in Jewish immigration	2,681	2,681
Arab revolt and the White Paper	6,447	6,447
World War II and the Holocaust	8,691	8,691
Illegal Jewish immigration and insurgency	7,621	7,621
United Nations Partition Plan	6,335	6,335
Civil War	3,939	3,939
State of Israel	113	115,458
Arab–Israeli War	4,642	8,232
Armistice Agreements	3,590	3,590
1948–1955: Ben-Gurion I; Sharett	14,448	14,448
1955–1963: Ben-Gurion II	6,811	6,811
1963–1969: Eshkol	10,662	10,662
1969–1974: Meir	7,200	7,200
1974–1977: Rabin I	4,502	4,502
1977–1983: Begin	8,525	8,525
1983–1992: Shamir I; Peres I; Shamir II	4,175	4,175
1992–1996: Rabin II; Peres II	6,371	6,371
1996–2001: Netanyahu I; Barak	7,929	7,929
2001–2006: Sharon	4,872	4,872
2006–2009: Olmert	6,059	6,059
2009–2021: Netanyahu II	20,679	20,679
2021–present: Bennett; Lapid; Netanyahu III	4,880	4,880
Demographics	2,449	2,449
See also	802	802
Notes	35	35
References	28	5,527
Works cited	5,499	5,499
Further reading	6,802	7,044
Primary sources	242	242
External links	1,078	1,078
Total	301,462	301,462

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