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The Land of Israel (Hebrew: אֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל ʼÉreṣ Yiśrāʼēl, Eretz Yisrael/Eres Yisrael; Arabic: أرض إسرائيل) is a name for the region also known as Greater Syria[1], Canaan, Palestina or the Holy Land. The name comes from the Torah and the Bible. The area is in the Middle East, and covers the southern part of the Levant.
Before the rise of Israel, the region was called the Canaan. In the Bible, the land was referred to as ’a Promised Land’ or ‘Holy Land’, whose southern border extends to the Sinai, bordering the Negev, west to the Mediterranean Sea up to Cyprus, east to Northwestern Jordan, Golan Heights and Syria [2] and the north (and/or west) up to Lebanon and Homs (Syria).