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Ahdut Haavoda (Labor Unity)
Ahdut Ha'Avoda was a socialist Zionist party. It was founded in 1919 as a union of the "Poalei Zion" party headed by David Ben-Gurion and...
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Golda Meir
1898 - 1978. Golda Meir was an Israeli politician, and Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974. Born in Kyiev, her early years were...
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Levi Eshkol
1895 - 1969. Levi Eshkol was an Israeli politician and the third Prime Minister of the State of Israel, between 1963 and 1969. You can...
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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.
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Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
1858 - 1922. Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, originally named Eliezer Yitzhak Perlman, was a Russian linguist, grammarian, and journalist who played...
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David Wolffsohn
1855 - 1914. David Wolffsohn was a Lithuanian-Jewish businessman, an early Zionist, and the second president of the Zionist Organization....
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Zalman David Levontin
1856 - 1940. Born in Belarus to a Chabad Hasidic family, Zalman David Levontin was one of the pioneers of the first aliyah. He was one of...
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Menachem Ussishkin
1863 - 1941. Menachem Ussishkin was a Zionist leader born in Belarus. Starting in 1878, he developed a passion for reading contemporary...
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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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Judith Montefiore
1784 - 1862. Judith Montefiore (born Cohen) was a British linguist, musician, travel writer, philanthropist, and wife of Moshe Montefiore...
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Siona Tagger
1900 - 1988. Source: Wikipedia. Ziona Tager was an Israeli painter known for painting the Yishuv period and the country's first years....
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