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Migdal (other)
Migdal (, meaning "tower") is a Hebrew word for tower. It may refer to: People * Alexander Migdal (born 1945), Soviet, Russian and American physicist, son of Arkady Migdal * Arkady Migdal (1911–1991), Soviet physicist * Ted Migdal (1918–1999), American professional basketball player * Luis Zwi Migdal for whom the infamous Argentinian pimp guild was named Places * Kfar Etzion, formerly called ''Migdal Eder'', an Israeli settlement in the West Bank * Migdal Afek, national park near Rosh HaAyin, Israel * Migdal HaEmek, city in Israel * Migdal Oz, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank * Migdal (the ancient ''Magdala'', near Tiberias) * Migdal, Israel, local council in Israel Buildings * Migdal Synagogue, an ancient synagogue on the shore of the Sea of Galilee * Shalom Meir Tower or Migdal Shalom Meir, an office tower in Tel Aviv, Israel * Tower of Babel or ''Migdal Bavel'' * Tower of David or ''Migdal David'' Companies and organizations * Migdal (company), an Israeli ins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Migdal
Alexander "Sasha" Arkadyevich Migdal (; born 22 July 1945) is a Russian-American mathematical and theoretical physicist currently working at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Early life and education Alexander Migdal was born in Moscow, Soviet Union in 1945, the son of prominent Soviet physicist Arkady Migdal and Tatiana Soboleva. Migdal studied physics and mathematics as an undergraduate at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology before receiving his PhD in theoretical physics from the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics in 1969. He subsequently obtained his Doctor of Sciences (equivalent to the habilitation) and Professorship while at the Landau Institute. Migdal defected with his family from the Soviet Union to the United States in 1988. Career Alexander Migdal began his academic career as a researcher in theoretical physics at the Landau Institute upon receiving his PhD. He remained at Landau until 1984, when he decided to defect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shalom Meir Tower
Shalom Meir Tower (, ''Migdal Shalom Meir''; commonly known as Migdal Shalom, ) is an office tower in Tel Aviv, Israel. It was the first skyscraper built in Israel. Overview Shalom Meir Tower was designed by architects Yitzhak Pearlstein, Gideon Ziv, and Meir Levy. Migdal Shalom has 34 floors and stands at a height of . 50,000 cubic meters of concrete, 4,000 tons of steel, 35 km of water pipes, and 500 km of wiring were used in the tower. When its construction was completed in 1965, it was the tallest building in the Middle East, as well as the tallest in Asia, and rivaled the tallest buildings in Europe in height. It was the last building in Western Asia to be the tallest building in Asia until the Burj Khalifa in Dubai was completed in 2010. History The tower was built on the site of the Herzliya Hebrew High School, better known as Herzliya Gymnasium. The school's architecturally and historically significant structure was razed and the school relocated in order t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landau–Pomeranchuk–Migdal Effect
In high-energy physics, the Landau–Pomeranchuk–Migdal effect, also known as the Landau–Pomeranchuk effect and the Pomeranchuk effect, or simply LPM effect, is a reduction of the bremsstrahlung and pair production cross sections at high energies or high matter densities. It is named in honor of Lev Landau, Isaak Pomeranchuk and Arkady Migdal. Overview A high energy particle undergoing multiple soft scatterings from a medium will experience interference effects between adjacent scattering sites. From uncertainty as the longitudinal momentum transfer gets small the particles wavelength will increase, if the wavelength becomes longer than the mean free path in the medium (the average distance between scattering sites) then the scatterings can no longer be treated as independent events, this is the LPM effect. The Bethe–Heitler spectrum for multiple scattering induced radiation assumes that the scatterings are independent, the quantum interference between successive scatteri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hapoel Jerusalem B
Hapoel (, ) is an Israeli Jewish sports association established in 1926 by the Histadrut Labor Federation. History During the Mandate for Palestine, British Mandate of Palestine period Hapoel had a bitter rivalry with Maccabi World Union, Maccabi and organized its own competitions, with the exception of Israel Football Association, football, the only sport in which all the organizations played each other. At the time, Hapoel took no part in the ''Eretz Israel Olympic Committee'', which was controlled by Maccabi, and instead sought for international ties with similar workers sports organizations of socialist parties. Therefore, Hapoel became a member of Socialist Workers' Sport International, SASI in 1927 and later was a member of CSIT. After the State of Israel was established, the rival sport organizations reached a 1951 agreement that allowed joint sports associations and competitions open for all Israeli residents. General sports clubs *Hapoel Jerusalem *Hapoel Tel Aviv *Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zwi Migdal
Zwi Migdal (, Polish language, Polish: ''Cwi Migdał'') was a organized crime, criminal organisation founded by Jews in Poland in the 19th century, based mainly in Argentina. History The group's main operation was the trafficking of Jewish women from Central Europe (mainly from Warsaw) into sexual slavery and forced prostitution. The organization, whose operators were History of the Jews in Poland, Jewish, functioned from its foundation in the 1860s until 1939. The organisation's annual turnover was $50 million at the turn of the 20th century. After the First World War, it had 400 members in Argentina, Buenos Aires being its main centre of operations. It had branch offices in Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Santos, São Paulo, Santos), the United States (New York City), Poland (Warsaw), South Africa, India and China.Kushnir, Beatriz; Baile de Máscaras, Imago Editora, São Paulo. During the 1920s the organisation grew to its largest-ever size. At its height, 430 indi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Migdal Oz (seminary)
Stella K. Abraham Beit Midrash for Women, commonly known as Migdal Oz (), is a Modern Orthodox institution of higher Torah study for women located in the Kibbutz Migdal Oz in Gush Etzion in the West Bank. Overview Migdal Oz is the sister school of Yeshivat Har Etzion, sharing its general philosophy, leadership and many faculty members. The total student population is 180, including 30 from the U.S., Canada, and England, and more than 40 in the advanced teachers' training program. The director of Migdal Oz is Rabbanit Esti Rosenberg, whose father, Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, along with Rabbi Yehuda Amital, provided the school with rabbinic guidance and often made religious policy decisions. The current Mashgicha Ruchanit is Rabbanit Shayna Goldberg. The curriculum includes Talmud study in keeping with the halakhic rulings of Rosenberg's grandfather, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. Notable alumni include: Elana Stein Hain and Gilah Kletenik. History Migdal Oz was established i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Migdal Or
Migdal Ohr (, ''lit.'' Tower of Light) is one of Israel's largest NGO's. The main and additional two residential campuses along with 160 youth clubs provide educational frameworks and social guidance for over 10,000 children and teenagers from underprivileged and dysfunctional homes across Israel every day. Migdal Ohr also runs community social programs, adult education programs, prisoner rehabilitation programs and soup kitchens that prepare 15,000 meals a day. Migdal Ohr has three residential campuses and 160 youth clubs. Migdal Ohr was founded by Israel Prize laureate Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Grossman in 1972. The school began with 18 students. Since then, over 15,000 youngsters have graduated from the Migdal Ohr, an institution that provides needy and immigrant children with housing, schooling, medical and dental care, clothing, libraries, after school enrichment courses and vocational training. See also * Education in Israel * Youth village A youth village () is a boarding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Migdal (company)
Migdal Insurance and Financial Holdings Ltd. () () is an Israeli insurance company. History Migdal was founded in Jerusalem in 1934. The original group of investors included local Palestinian Jews, families from Egypt and Italy and the Italian insurance company Assicurazioni Generali which held a 50% stake and provided the original financial and professional backing. Generali eventually held 70% of Migdal's shares, and Bank Leumi owns almost 10%. In September 1996, Migdal made its initial public offering on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, selling 20% shares stake. In March 2012 Assicurazioni Generali sold Migdal to Shlomo Eliahu. 7 March 2012, Globes See also * |
Tower Of David
The Tower of David (), also known as the Citadel (), is an ancient citadel and contemporary museum, located near the Jaffa Gate entrance to the Old City of Jerusalem, Old City of Jerusalem. The citadel that stands today dates to the Mamluk Sultanate, Mamluk and Ottoman Empire, Ottoman periods. It was built on the site of a series of earlier ancient fortifications of the Hasmonean, Herodian kingdom, Herodian, Byzantine Empire, Byzantine and Early Muslim conquests, Early Muslim periods, after being destroyed repeatedly during the last decades of Crusades, Crusader presence in the Holy Land by their Muslim enemies. It contains artifacts from the Iron Age including a quarry dated to the Second Temple period and pottery, fishbones, and other archaeological finds dating from the First Temple Period, and is a venue for benefit events, craft shows, concerts, and sound-and-light performances. Dan Bahat, an Israeli archaeologist, writes that the original three Hasmonean towers standing in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tower Of Babel
The Tower of Babel is an origin myth and parable in the Book of Genesis (chapter 11) meant to explain the existence of different languages and cultures. According to the story, a united human race speaking a single language migrates to Shinar (Lower Mesopotamia), where they agree to build a great city with a tower that would reach the sky. Yahweh, observing these efforts and remarking on humanity's power in unity, confounds their speech so that they can no longer understand each other and scatters them around the world, leaving the city unfinished. Some modern scholars have associated the Tower of Babel with known historical structures and accounts, particularly from ancient Mesopotamia. The most widely attributed inspiration is Etemenanki, a ziggurat dedicated to the god Marduk in Babylon, which in Hebrew was called ''Babel''. A similar story is also found in the ancient Sumerian legend, ''Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta'', which describes events and locations in southern M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Migdal Synagogue
The Migdal Synagogue or Magdala Synagogue is an ancient former Jewish synagogue, discovered at the ancient city of Magdala, close to the shore of the Sea of Galilee, in northeastern Israel. It is one of two ancient former synagogues that were in use in the Second Temple period, which places them among the oldest synagogues found in Israel. Inside the synagogue first discovered at Migdal, the Magdala stone was found representing the Menorah, the seven-branched candelabrum that was located in the Second Temple. It's the oldest such representation in a Jewish context and one that appears to have been made by an individual who had seen the Menorah in the Temple. Background: Magdala Magdala was a fishing town that was mentioned in Jewish documents of the period as a major site during the First Jewish–Roman War (66–73 CE) at the time of the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE and is also mentioned in early Christian texts as the home community of Mary Magdalene. In addi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arkady Migdal
Arkady Beynusovich (Benediktovich) Migdal (; Lida, Russian Empire, 11 March 1911 – Princeton, United States, 9 February 1991) was a Soviet physicist and member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. He developed the formula that accounts for the Landau–Pomeranchuk–Migdal effect, a reduction of the bremsstrahlung and pair production cross sections at high energies or high matter densities. Biography Arkady Migdal, whose father was a Jewish pharmacist, graduated from secondary school in Petrograd. In 1927 he published his first physics paper. He studied at Leningrad State University but was expelled in 1931 for his "non-proletarian origin". In 1933 he was arrested and imprisoned for 70 days. He graduated from Leningrad State University in 1936 with a Russian Candidate of Sciences degree (Ph.D.). His thesis advisor was Vladimir Fock. Migdal was a postdoc at the Leningrad Institute of Physics and Technology, where his supervisor was Matvei Bronstein, and Yakov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
