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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...


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 Snake-fish" in Hebrew, and is also a pun since young drivers place a plaque on the back window of their car with the words "Nahag Chadash" ("New Driver").


Leon Pinsker
Leon Pinsker, born in Poland in 1839, was a prominent 19th-century Jewish leader, Zionist pioneer, physician, and writer.


Judith Montefiore
Judith Montefiore (1784 - 1862) was a British linguist, musician, travel writer, philanthropist, and wife of Moshe Montefiore.


"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 inspiration from an excerpt from the Parasha Vayakhel, elucidating the commandments for establishing the Tabernacle.


Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day (Yom HaZikaron laShoah ve-laG'vurah)
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.


Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Day
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
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).


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


Siona Tagger
Ziona Tager (1900 - 1988) was an Israeli painter known for painting the Yishuv period and the country's first years.
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