"Hushu, Achim, Hushu" is the name given to the Bilu Anthem. This song was written in 1882/1883 by Yehiel Michel Pines and is considered by many as the first Zionist song, representing the Zionist pioneering idea of settling the Land of Israel.

In the early 1880s, Jews in the Russian Empire experienced harsh antisemitism, violence, and persecution. In response to that, and in opposition to assimilation, some Jews suggested settling a home for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel, the only place Jews could become a nation.

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.