Haim Amzlag
1828 - 1916. Haim Nissim Amzlag was a Jewish businessman and community leader during the Yishuv period. He was born in Gibraltar to a...
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Ofra Haza
1957 - 2000. Ofra Haza was an Israeli singer and movie/theater actress of Yemeni descent. She is one of the most famous Israeli singers,...
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Solomon Florentin
1864 - 1946. Shlomo (Salomon) Yaakov Florentin was a contractor and entrepreneur of Thessaloniki descent who founded the Florentin...
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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...
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Moshe Yitzhak Matalon
1872 - 1959. Moshe Yitzhak Matlon was one of Tel Aviv's founders. The first Matlon family members arrived in Israel from Iraq in 1817,...
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Yehudah Ben Samuel Halevi
1141 - 1075. Rabbi Juda (Yehuda) HaLevi was a Sephardic rabbi, philosopher, doctor, and poet born in Tudela (Spain). During his life, he...
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Zohar Argov
1955 - 1987. Zohar Argov (born Orkabi) was an Israeli singer of Yemeni descent, who strongly influenced Mizrahi music in Israel in the...
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Kazablan
Kazablan is an Israeli movie (inspired by a play) released in 1974. It relates the story of a man called Kazablan, who made Aliyah from...
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