Holocaust Remembrance Day is observed in Israel every year on the 27th of (the Hebrew month of) Nisan. It commemorates the Holocaust. The Knesset adopted the law in 1959.

Memorial Day for the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is a national day of remembrance commemorated every year on the 12th of Cheshvan in the Hebrew calendar.

David Florentin was a Jewish journalist and one of the founders of the Zionist movement in Thessaloniki. He was the first Jewish representative from Greece to participate in the World Zionist Congress (the 11th Congress, convened in 1913 in Vienna).

Shlomo (Salomon) Yaakov Florentin was a contractor and entrepreneur of Thessaloniki descent who founded the Florentin neighborhood in Tel Aviv in the 1930s.

1900 - 1988. Source: Wikipedia. Ziona Tager was an Israeli painter known for painting the Yishuv period and the country's first years....

Israel's national anthem, Hatikvah ("The Hope"), expresses the Jewish people's longing to return to Israel, the land of their forefathers, after 2,000 years of exile following the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans in 70 CE.

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 146 000 Druze.

The Israeli flag was originally the banner of the World Zionist Organization and was first adopted as a flag during the first Zionist Congress in 1897 (Basel, Switzerland).

The song called ״Hasar Montefiore" was released in 1971 and is part of the album "Ani Yerushalmi" (or "I was born in Jerusalem") by Yoram Gaon.

Moshe Montefiore, an English Sephardic Jew born in Italy, was a financier, banker, Zionist activist, and philanthropist. He married Judith Cohen, sister-in-law of Nathan Meyer Rothschild (Edmond James de Rothschild's uncle).