Israel to Become a Monarchy; Arafat to Lose the Election

PRAVDA.Ru ^ | Aug, 12 2002 | Dmitry Litvinovich

[Jasonconley]

Remarkable things are happening in the Middle East: the monarchists of Israel set forth an initiative to bring back the monarchy in the country after a break of two thousand years.

[dubyagee]

the monarchists of Israel set forth an initiative to bring back the monarchy in the country after a break of two thousand years.

Very, very biblically interesting...

[pgkdan]

yeaah...right. I'll buy that.

[berned]

a special council of wise men should elect the king, but the king is supposed to come from King David’s klan.

Wow! This definitely sent shivers down my spine. Very Biblically interesting indeed!

[dinasour]

What Clan is Bibi in?

[berned]

What Clan is Bibi in?

No idea.

[ohioman]

OH yeah right. Pravda would never lie.

[hoosierpearl]

It is my understanding that all the records to determine which family/tribe a person is from were destroyed when Jerusalem was attacked/demolished in 70 AD. There may not be any way to determine if anyone is from David's tribe.

[TruthConquers]

I have been wondering if the Israelis can some how figure out which tribe they are from with DNA. If you have just a few people who do know, then you can go from there.

[SteamshipTime]

Personally, I'm partial to the idea of a constitutional monarchy. Democracy: The God That Failed.

[Thinkin' Gal]

What Clan is Bibi in?

Benjamin. ;-)

[College Repub]

There is a way to tell. For one thing many of the hasid rabbinical familes can trace back to someone who was in David's clan. But that really doesn't matter. The messiah who fulfills all of the other prophecies will obviosuly be of Davids tribe. That's how we'll know eventualy.

[Hugin]

but the king is supposed to come from King David’s klan.

Either they mean "clan", or there are some really remarkable things going on over there.

[Krafty123]

There are still families which can trace themselves as being from Levi, and a handful from Judah/David. For example, anybody descended from Rashi (11th Century), or the Maharal of Pragues (16th Century) is also a descendant of David, as they were. Likewise, someone from the Shlah is from Levi, and the Rappaport family are Kohanim.

Additionlly, members of David's family had a ridge(?)/other abnormality on the skull, without which the crown couldn't fit on the head.

Ari

[WyldKard]

It's very simple. We bring the candidate to the Grey Council and have them touch the Triluminary. If it glows, then they are shown to be a child of Valen, and should fufil the prophecy...

Er...oh wait..sorry...that was a different show!!

[ravingnutter]

New Jersey publisher Susan Roth hopes to gather thousands of descendants of King David for the first-ever Royal House of David Convention... Now Roth, of New Jersey and Jerusalem, is organizing the first-ever gathering of the descendants of King David in more than 2,000 years, to be held in Jerusalem sometime in October 2003...

According to Roth, there are thousands of Jews and non-Jews who can trace their ancestry to the Davidic line. At the convention DNA samples will be taken from those in attendance and tested. Research carried out a few years ago on male Kohanim descended from the Jewish priestly line of Aharon revealed a mutation on the Y-chromosome in some 85 percent of those tested, confirming the existence of a single common ancestor. Roth hopes that similar dramatic findings will result from testing the Davidic royal line.

Proportionally only a few of the royalty lines are known, the rest have been obscured by time. What is known is that 15 Jewish families have traditionally claimed to have descended from King David.

Twelve of those families trace themselves back to Rashi, who was descended from the marriage between King David and Hagit. The families include: Abarbanel, Berdugo, Don Yehiya, Halperin, Harlap, Horowitz, Katzenelbogen, Lurie, Rabinowitz, Shaltiel, Shapira, and Weil. Three families, go back to Solomon's line from the marriage of Batsheva and David, which is the messianic line. Those families are Dayan, Elfandari and Peretz.

DavidicDynasty.org

Not much other info there, site is under construction.

[GOP_1900AD]

Indeed, if applied to Israel, I would expect to see a much more healthy nation state to emerge. While PRAVDA ("truth" >>>> NOT!!!) probably sought to create anti-Semitic undertones with this, personally I would welcome it. The ongoing chaos and bipolar public policies in Israel would benefit greatly from the place being made a bit less republican.

[jedwardtremlett]

So if Israel ceases to be a democracy, does our main reason to back them up disappear? ; )

J

[Guillermo]

They're ALL in King David's clan, right?

The Benjamite tribe was absorded by the tribe of Judah.

I thought the other 10 Tribes were dispersed, no one knowing who they are.

Jew comes from Judah, and King David was a Jew.

[philosofy123]

I volunteer to be King, in case they are looking for one!