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Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
1858 - 1922. Source: Ya'ackov Ben-Dov, id.lib.harvard.edu. Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, originally named Eliezer Yitzhak Perlman, was a Russian...


Haim Nahman Bialik
Haim Nahman Bialik was a Jewish poet who wrote in Hebrew and Yiddish and was one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew poetry.


El Hatzipor
El Hatzipor ("To the Bird") is Nahman Bialik's first published poem (1892). This song expresses the longing for Jerusalem, sung by a bird returning from the Promised Land to a European window border.


The Uganda Scheme
The Uganda Scheme was a proposition formulated by Theodor Herzl, the founder of the modern Zionist movement, at the Sixth World Zionist Congress in Basel in 1903.


Eretz Nehederet
Eretz Nehederet is a popular Israeli satirical television show on the air since 2003. It is produced and broadcast as a TV news show, as...


David Wolffsohn
David Wolffsohn was a Lithuanian-Jewish businessman, an early Zionist, and the second president of the Zionist Organization.


Administrative Districts (Mehozot)
The State of Israel's administrative organization is based on three levels of governance: The Central Government, Districts, Local entities.


Nir Vegali
Nir VeGali (meaning Nir and Gali) is a famous Israeli content creator who specializes in short animated movies with a humoristic tone....


What is the Knesset?
The name "Knesset" comes from the ancient Knesset HaGdola, or "Great Assembly" in Hebrew, which was a group of 120 scribes, sages, and prophets in the Jewish tradition. This assembly existed from the end of the Biblical prophets to the development of Rabbinic Judaism. This spanned two centuries until around 200 BCE.


Judah Leib Gordon
Born in Lithuania, then part of the Russian Empire, Judah Leib Gordon was among the most influential Hebrew poets. He is considered one of the greatest poets of Haskalah and is known for his sharp fight against the rabbinic establishment.
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