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Theodor Herzl
Benjamin Zeev Theodor Herzl was the founder of Political Zionism and founder of the Zionist Organization.


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


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.


Hatikva, the National Anthem
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.


Minister Montefiore (Song)
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
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).


Beyond the Walls of Jerusalem
During the second part of the 19th century, Jerusalem started to expand, and new neighborhoods were built outside the old city after thousands of years in which the residents of Jerusalem lived between the old walls.


The Land of Israel before the first Aliyah (1882)
Decades before the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, the establishment of a Jewish state embodying Zionist ideology had already started.


Yair Rosenblum
Yair Rosenblum was one of the most important creators of Hebrew songs. His work strongly impacted the Israeli music scene, mainly through military bands' songs.


King George
1865 - 1936. King George V was King of the United Kingdom from 1910 to 1936 . Portrait by Luke Fildes, 1911. Source: Pixabay. During and...
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