Question: Joseph's office in Egypt caused Israel to leave this area of the Levant?

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Sheikh Omar Hadid Brigade: The Islamist militant group "Sheikh Omar Hadid Brigade"(لواء الشيخ عمر حديد in Arabic), previously known (although still referred to) as a brigade of "Ansar Bait al-Maqdis" (a group more recently calling itself "al-Dawlat al-Islamiya", as of late 2014) is a known affiliate of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, active in the Gaza Strip.  Its aims have consistently matched those of the Islamic State, in that the group aims to establish the Levant caliphate, otherwise known as "al-Sham", with the ultimate aim of the organization being the destruction of the State of Palestine, ensued by the destruction of the State of Israel and the expulsion and elimination of all Jewish inhabitants and other ethno-religious 'infidels', such as the Druze, Bahá'í, Shia and Christian populations, living within the area.

Heqanefer: Heqanefer (also Hekanefer) was an Ancient Egyptian official in the New Kingdom under king Tutankhamun who was a local governor with the title "Chief of Miam" ("wr n miam").  In the New Kingdom, Egyptian kings had conquered Lower Nubia.  To secure control over the new region they appointed people of the local elite as governors.  Miam (modern Aniba) was a town in Lower Nubia, a regional center and capital of the Nubian provinces.  Here also resided the "Chief of Miam".  Heqanefer is known from his badly preserved rock cut tomb found at Toshka.  Here he is depicted as Egyptian.  Heqanefer is also depicted in the tomb viceroy of Kush Amenhotep called Huy (TT40).  Here he appears in a Nubian delegation and is shown fully as dark skinned Nubian in Nubian costume.  The viceroy of Kush was evidently the highest official in the Nubian provinces, while Heqanefer was in the hierarchy under him.  Other Nubian officials are shown in the tomb too, but Heqanefer is the only one named, providing evidence that he was of special importance.  The two totally different appearances of Heqanefer at home and in Egypt caused some discussion in Egyptology about local identities in Nubia.

Canaan: Canaan ( ; Northwest Semitic: "knaʿn "; Phoenician: 𐤊𐤍𐤏𐤍; <a href="Biblical%20Hebrew">Biblical Hebrew</a>/<a href="Masoretic">Masoretic</a>: "Kənā‘an ; Ḵənā‘an") was a <a href="Semitic%20languages">Semitic</a>-speaking region in the <a href="Ancient%20Near%20East">Ancient Near East during the late <a href="2nd%20millennium%20BC">2nd millennium BC</a>.  In the Bible it corresponds to the Levant, in particular to the areas of the Southern Levant that provide the main setting of the narrative of the Hebrew Bible, i.e., the area of Israel, Philistia, Phoenicia, and other nations.

Eliezer ben Elijah Ashkenazi: Eliezer (Lazer) ben Elijah Ashkenazi (1512–December 13, 1585) (Hebrew: אליעזר בן אליהו אשכנזי‎ ‎ ) was a Talmudist, rabbi, physician, and many-sided scholar.  Though of a German family (according to some, the relative of Joseph Colon; see Marco Mortara, "Indice Alfabetico," s.v.), he was probably born in the Levant, and received his Talmudic education under Joseph Taitazak in Salonica.  Ashkenazi first became rabbi in Egypt 1538-60, probably at Fostat, where, by his learning and wealth, he became widely known.  Compelled by circumstances—doubtless of a political nature—to leave Egypt, he went to Cyprus, remaining there for two years as rabbi at Famagusta.

Land of Israel: The Land of Israel () is the traditional Jewish name for an area of indefinite geographical extension in the Southern Levant.  Related biblical, religious and historical English terms include the Land of Canaan, the Promised Land, the Holy Land, and Palestine (see also Israel (disambiguation)).  The definitions of the limits of this territory vary between passages in the Hebrew Bible, with specific mentions in Genesis 15, Exodus 23, Numbers 34 and Ezekiel 47.  Nine times elsewhere in the Bible, the settled land is referred as "from Dan to Beersheba, and three times it is referred as "from the entrance of Hamath unto the brook of Egypt” (1 Kings 8:65, 1 Chronicles 13:5 and 2 Chronicles 7:8)." .

Visa policy of Palestine: Visa policy of Palestine refers to specific entry conditions into the Palestinian territories.  There are no visa conditions imposed on foreign nationals other than those imposed by visa policy of Israel.  Access to Jerusalem and the West Bank is controlled by the Government of Israel and access to Gaza is controlled by Hamas.  Visitors who enter via Allenby Bridge-King Hussein border crossing and make their connections to the West Bank or plans to travel to the West Bank known may be given an entry stamp that permits travel only in Palestinian Authority-controlled areas of the West Bank.  Exiting Gaza via the Erez crossing into Israel is nearly impossible.  Exit through the Rafah border crossing into Egypt is unpredictable and requires prior permission from Egyptian authorities.  The crossing often closes for extended time periods in which visitors are unable to leave Gaza Strip.  Visitors of Palestinian origin need a Palestinian passport or travel document in order to leave and may enter only via Allenby Border Crossing.  Visitors of Israeli origin are not allowed to enter via Allenby Border Crossing.

Joseph (Genesis): Joseph ( ; Hebrew: יוֹסֵף‎ meaning "Increase", "Yosef" "Yôsēp̄"; Arabic: يوسف‎ ‎ "Yūsuf" or "Yūsif"; Ancient Greek: Ἰωσήφ "Iōsēph") is an important figure in the Bible's Book of Genesis and also in the Quran.  Sold into slavery by his jealous brothers, he rose to become vizier, the second most powerful man in Egypt next to Pharaoh, where his presence and office caused Israel to leave Canaan and settle in Egypt.  The composition of the story can be dated to the period between the 7th century BCE and the third quarter of the 5th century BCE, which is roughly the period to which scholars date the Book of Genesis.

List of earthquakes in the Levant: This is a list of earthquakes in the Levant, including earthquakes that either had their epicenter in the Levant or caused significant damage in the region.  As it is now, the list is focused on events which affected the territories of modern-day Israel and Palestine, with additional mention on some major events in Syria and Lebanon.

Southern Levant: The Southern Levant is a geographical region encompassing the southern half of the Levant.  It corresponds approximately to modern-day Israel, Palestine, and Jordan; some definitions also include southern Lebanon, southern Syria and/or the Sinai Peninsula.  As a strictly geographical description, it is sometimes used by archaeologists and historians to avoid the religious and political connotations of other names for the area.

Syria (region): The historic region of Syria (Hieroglyphic Luwian: "Sura/i"; ; in modern literature called Greater Syria, Syria-Palestine, or the Levant) is an area located east of the Mediterranean sea.  The oldest attestation of the name Syria is from the 8th century BC in a bilingual inscription in Hieroglyphic Luwian and Phoenician.  In this inscription the Luwian word "Sura/i" was translated to Phoenician "ʔšr" "Assyria."  For Herodotus in the 5th century BC, Syria extended as far north as the Halys river and as far south as Arabia and Egypt.  For Pliny the Elder and Pomponius Mela, Syria covered the entire Fertile Crescent.  In Late Antiquity Syria meant a region located to the East of the Mediterranean Sea, West of the Euphrates River, North of the Arabian Desert and South of the Taurus Mountains, thereby including modern Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, the State of Palestine and parts of Southern Turkey namely the Hatay Province and the Western half of the Southeastern Anatolia Region.  This late definition is equivalent to the region known in Classical Arabic by the name "ash-Shām " الشام /ʔaʃ-ʃaːm/ , which means "the north [country]" (from the root "šʔm " شأم "left, north").  After the Islamic conquest of Byzantine Syria in the 7th century AD, the name "Syria" fell out of primary use in the region itself, being superseded by the Arabic equivalent "Shām", but survived in its original sense in Byzantine and Western European usage, and in Syriac Christian literature.  In the 19th century the name Syria was revived in its modem Arabic form to denote the whole of Bilad al-Sham, either as "Suriyah" or the modern form "Suriyya", which eventually replaced the Arabic name of Bilad al-Sham.  After World War I, the name Syria was applied to the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon and the contemporaneous but short-lived Arab Kingdom of Syria.

Supporting paragraphs: Joseph (Genesis) Canaan
Answer: Canaan