Hebrew/Israelis

[xane]

I vote for "Judeans", as in the Judean Peoples Front, with John Cleese as the leader.

BTW, not the Peoples Front of Judea = ****ers.

[Maccabee2]

my humble suggestions

I hope that the two characteristics are either:
a) Religious and Commercial, or
b) Religious and Scientific.

Rulers could be David or Solomon or Moses, or Golda Meir for female ruler.

Great leaders should include Joshua, Caleb, Gideon, Deborah, Joab, Josiah, Elijah, Judas Maccabee ( or all of the Maccabee brothers), Bar Kochba, Maimonides, Achiva, Haim Herzog, Theodor Herzl, Albert Einstein, Moshe Dayan, Menachem Begin, Ben Gurion, .....and Barbara Striesand (just kidding!)

For the special unit I would have to favor either:

the Maccabee (maybe with greater defense value or greater mobility, since they knew their home's terrain and geography better than invaders) or

a Mossad unit (sort of a super spy unit --maybe it could be invisible even to other civ's spies, or have a higher success rate at certain activities, or better mobility rate).

[Zealot]

I'm sorry to disagree Mac, but I think the UU should be the Zealots.

[Gholam]

Unique unit should be armed settler with move 2, oh yes!

I vote for name being Jews... we call ourselves Yehudim, after the ancient kingdom of Yehuda - latinized, it's Judea, of with Israel (pronounced more like Yisrael, accent on e) was a split-off.

[Raleigh]

Hebrews or Israelites give them more of an ancient feel which is nice for a game like this.

I would also suggest making them religious/scientific.

[Eli]

Another Israeli!

Get ICQ ASAP and come to the OT!