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Religious Coercion in Israel?
Translated into: Kfiah Datit. Kfiah: coercion/force Datit: Religious. Israel was founded with the unique challenge of integrating diverse...
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Degel HaTorah
Degel HaTorah ( Banner of the Torah ) is an Israeli Ashkenazi Haredi political party. The party was founded by Rabbi Elazar Shech in 1988...
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Mapai - Mifleget Poalei Eretz Yisrael
The Workers Party of the Land of Israel Established in 1930, the Mapai party resulted from the union of two parties: Ahdut HaAvoda and...
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The parable of the full cart and the empty cart
Meshel Haagala hameleah veHaagala hareikah The parable of the full cart and the empty cart is the name given to an opinion expressed by...
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The Status Quo Agreement
The Status-Quo Agreement, initially established through a letter on the 19th of June 1947, was an understanding reached with religious...
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Agudat Israel
Agudat Israel is a political party founded in 1912 in Poland. It was intended to be a political tool to preserve the ultra-Orthodox way...
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Abraham Isaac Kook
1865 - 1935. Rabbi Dr. Abraham I. Kook, 4/15/24. Source: Library of Congress. Abraham Isaac Kook, known as Rav Kook , was an Orthodox...
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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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Minorities in Israel
According to the Central Bureau of Statistics, at the end of 2021, Israel had 6 873 000 Jews, 1 671 000 Muslims, 179 000 Christians, and...
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David-Zvi Pinkas
1895 - 1952. David Zvi Pinkas was a signatory of the Declaration of Independence (out of 37 signers), and the third Minister of...
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This is not the way ("Lo Ze ha-Derekh")
In 1889, Asher Ginzberg , also known as Ahad Ha'am, published his article " This is Not the Way". Widely regarded as his most important...
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