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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...


David Ben Gurion
David Ben-Gurion (born David Grun) was an Israeli politician and the first Prime Minister of the State of Israel.


Abraham Isaac Kook
Abraham Isaac Kook, known as Rav Kook, was an Orthodox rabbi, and the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of pre-state Israel (in British Mandatory Palestine). He is considered one of the fathers of religious Zionism.


Herbert Samuel
Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel was the first appointed High Commissioner for Palestine, in charge of the administration of the territory from 1920 to 1925.


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...


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


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.


Living in Jerusalem in the 1960s
Jerusalem in the 1960s was a totally different city from what we know today.
This video explains how Jerusalem was at that time through the eyes of a photographer called Yitshak Saad.


Menachem Ussishkin
Menachem Ussishkin was a Zionist leader born in Belarus. Starting in 1878, he developed a passion for reading contemporary Hebrew writers. This sparked his commitment to promoting the revival of the Hebrew language, which became a fundamental principle for him.


Ze'ev Jabotinsky
1880 - 1940. Ze'ev Jabotinsky was a Zionist leader, writer, orator, soldier, and journalist. He strongly advocated for the creation of a...
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