The Law of return (Hok Hashvut)
The Law of Return was a law passed by the Knesset (Israel's parliament) on July 5th, 1950, two years after the State of Israel was...
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Hadag Nahash
Hadag Nahash is an Israeli pop music group founded in 1996. The group's logo is a urinating child. The name literally means "The...
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Leon Pinsker
1821 - 1891. Leon Pinsker, born in Poland in 1839, was a Jewish and Zionist leader, physician, and writer during the 19th century. He...
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Judith Montefiore
1784 - 1862. Judith Montefiore (born Cohen) was a British linguist, musician, travel writer, philanthropist, and wife of Moshe...
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"Lekol Yish Yesh Shem"
''Every Man Has a Name'' is a Hebrew poem penned by the Israeli poet Zelda (1914-1984) and was published in 1974. The poem draws...
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Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day)
Yom Hazikaron laShoah velagvura Holocaust Remembrance Day is observed in Israel every year on the 27th of (the Hebrew month of) Nisan. It...
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Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Day
Yom Hazikaron leYitshak Rabin Memorial Day for the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is a national day of remembrance...
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David Florentin
1874 - 1941. David Florentin was a Jewish journalist and one of the founders of the Zionist movement in Thessaloniki. He was the first...
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Solomon Florentin
1864 - 1946. Shlomo (Salomon) Yaakov Florentin was a contractor and entrepreneur of Thessaloniki descent who founded the Florentin...
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Siona Tagger
1900 - 1988. Ziona Tager was an Israeli painter known for painting the Yishuv period and the country's first years. She was born in Jaffa...
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