Israel
the name divinely given to Jacob during the scene at Peniel or Penuel as a memorial that, as a prince , he had power with God and with men and had prevailed (Gen. xxxii: 28).
Also the Jewish people; a contraction for Children of Israel or House of Israel (Hosea xi: 1). See JEWS. Also a religious sect which appeared for the first time in England in 1883. ISRAELITES. See JEWS.
ISRÄELS, JOSEF, a Dutch artist; born in Groningen in 1824. He studied at Amsterdam under Pieneman and Kruseman, and in Paris under Picot and Henri Scheffer. In 1855 his "William, Prince of Orange, opposing the Decree of the King of Spain" attracted attention in the Exposition Universelle .
In 1867 his celebrated "Interior of the Orphan Asylum at Katwijk" gained for him a third-class medal and the ribbon of the Legion of Honor; and eight years ISSIK-KUL 210 ITALIAN ARCHITECTURE later he was awarded the cross and a first-class medal. Later he resided at The Hague. Among his chief pictures may be named "The Sewing-School at Katwijk" (1881), "Silent Company" (1882), "Fine Weather" (1883), and "The Struggle for Life" (1883). He is also favorably known as an etcher by "Old Mary," "The Cradle," "The Mother," "The Fisherman," etc. He died in 1911. a ISSIK-KUL (iz-ik-ul'), lake in Central Asia, in the Russian province of Semiryetchensk, situated, at an elevation of 5,000 feet above sea level, between the Terskei Ala-tau range on the S. and the Kangei Ala-tau on the N. It measures 112 miles long, 38 miles broad, and covers an area of 1,980 square miles.
Its water is very salty, but full of fish.