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The Status Quo Agreement
The Status-Quo Agreement, initially established through a letter on the 19th of June 1947, was an understanding reached with religious parties prior to the formation of the State of Israel.


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...


The differences between a Kibbutz and a Moshav
A Kibbutz (meaning in Hebrew "gathering") is a form of cooperative settlement unique to Zionism, correlated to the Yishuv and the State of Israel.


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.


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.


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.


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...


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