The Nahalat Binyamin Association of Jaffa (mainly made up of craftsmen) wanted to establish another neighborhood outside Jaffa, while the...

Ha-Melits was a Hebrew newspaper published in the Russian Empire between 1860 and 1904. It was one of the first Hebrew-language...

1872 - 1959. Moshe Yitzhak Matlon was one of Tel Aviv's founders. The first Matlon family members arrived in Israel from Iraq in 1817,...

1865 - 1936. King George V was King of the United Kingdom from 1910 to 1936. During and after World War 1, the United Kingdom expanded...

1861 - 1936. Edmund Allenby was a British military officer who became famous during World War 1 for conquering the Land of Israel and...

Ba'alei Melakha means "Craftsmen" in Hebrew. After Menahem Sheinkin made Aliyah in 1906, he joined the Craftmanship Organization of...

1895 - 1952. David Zvi Pinkas was a signatory of the Declaration of Independence (out of 37 signers), and the third Minister of...

1859 - 1936. Nahum Sokolov was a writer, journalist, and Zionist leader. Born in Poland, he received a traditional Jewish education as a...

1894 - 1955. Moshe Sharett was an active Zionist leader, the first Foreign Minister of Israel, and its Second Prime Minister. He led the...

Hovevei Zion is a collective name for Zionist associations founded in Eastern Europe at the end of the 19th century. These associations...

1843 - 1910. Moshe Yehuda Leib Lilienblum was a journalist and writer who wrote in Hebrew, Russian, and Yiddish. As a young adult, he...