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The Israeli Flag
The Israeli flag was originally the banner of the World Zionist Organization and was first adopted as a flag during the first Zionist...


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Beyond the Walls of Jerusalem
During the second part of the 19th century, Jerusalem started to expand, and new neighborhoods were built outside the old city after...


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The Land of Israel before the first Aliyah (1882)
Decades before the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, the establishment of a Jewish state embodying Zionist ideology had already...


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


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


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Edmond Benjamin James de Rothschild
1845 - 1934. Baron Edmond Benjamin James de Rothschild was a French banker, philanthropist, and art collector born in France in 1845. His...


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Meir Dizengoff
1861 -1936. Meïr Dizengoff was the first mayor of Tel Aviv, between 1921-1925, and from 1928 until his death in 1936. Born in Moldova in...
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