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51Gabi Ashkenazi — Infobox Military Person name= Gabi Ashkenazi lived= b. 1954 placeofbirth= Hagor, Israel placeofdeath= caption= nickname= allegiance= Israel serviceyears= 1972–2005, 2007– rank= Rav Aluf branch= Israel Defense Forces commands= Golani Brigade… …
52chalutz — variant of halutz * * * /khah loohts /, n., pl. chalutzim / looh tseem /. Hebrew. halutz. * * * chalutz /häˈlŭts/ noun A member of the early group of immigrants to Israel that established and worked the first kibbutzim (agricultural settlements)… …
53HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE STATE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS (1880–2006) — Introduction It took the new Jewish nation about 70 years to emerge as the State of Israel. The immediate stimulus that initiated the modern return to Zion was the disappointment, in the last quarter of the 19th century, of the expectation that… …
54JEWISH AGENCY — (Heb. הַסּוֹכְנוּת הַיּהוּדִית לְאֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל, Ha Sokhenut ha Yehudit le Ereẓ Israel), international, nongovernment body, centered in Jerusalem, which is the executive and representative of the World zionist organization , whose aims are to… …
55LAMDAN, YIẒḤAK — (1899–1954), Hebrew poet and editor. Born in Mlinov, Ukraine, Lamdan received a traditional and secular education. During World War I he was cut off from his family and wandered through southern Russia with his brother, who was later killed in a… …
56ROMANIA — ROMANIA, country in East Central and South East Europe, in the Carpatho Danubian region, north of the Balkan Peninsula, partly on the littoral of the Black Sea. The territory comprising Romania was known as Dacia in antiquity; Jewish tombstones,… …
57RUSSIA — RUSSIA, former empire in Eastern Europe; from 1918 the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (R.S.F.S.R.), from 1923 the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.); from 1990 the Russian Federation. Until 1772 ORIGINS The penetration… …
58TRUMPELDOR, JOSEPH — (1880–1920), soldier, symbol of pioneering and armed defense in Ereẓ Israel. Joseph s father, Ze ev (Vladimir; 1830–1915), was a soldier in the army of Nicholas I. His son Joseph, born in Pyatigorsk (northern Caucasus), was sent to a religious… …
59ZUCKERMAN (Cukierman), ITZHAK — (Antek; 1915–1981), Warsaw ghetto fighter. Born in Vilna to a traditional Jewish family, he became one of the four commanders of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) that organized armed resistance to the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto. He was… …
60Second Intifada — Part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and Arab–Israeli conflict Clockwise from above: A masked P …
