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Beit Keshet
Beit Keshet (, ''lit.'' House of the Bow (weapon), Bow) is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located to the east of Nazareth, it falls under the jurisdiction of Lower Galilee Regional Council. As of its population was . It is located immediately opposite the Al-Tujjar Caravansarai (Mount Tabor), Al-Tujjar Caravansarai. Etymology The name Beit Keshet ("House of the Bow") is derived from in the Bible: "...teach the children of Judah the use of the bow," which is also a symbol for defending Israel. History Beit Keshet was established in 1944 by HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed, HaNoar HaOved youth, who were trained at the Kfar Tavor agricultural school. During the founding of the kibbutz, a group of immigrants who were a part of the Youth movement HaMahanot HaOlim and graduates of the Kadoorie Agricultural High School joined the kibbutz. According to the Jewish National Fund, more than half of the original group had served with the Jewish forces during the Second World War. By 1947, Beit Ke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed
Histadrut HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed (), most commonly translated as Working and Studying Youth and colloquially known as Noar HaOved and abbreviated No'al (), is an Israeli youth movement, a sister movement of Habonim Dror, and affiliated with the Labor Zionist movement. The organisation is a member of the International Falcon Movement – Socialist Educational International. History HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed was founded in 1924. Initially it was called ''Hanoar HaOved'' ("Working Youth") and affiliated with the Histadrut. In 1959, the group joined ''HaTnua HaMeuhedet'' ("The United Movement") and the name was changed to '' HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed''. In the 1990s, along with the decline of the kibbutz movement, HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed began re-examining the ideal life path of its members, which had always began settling kibbutzim in '' gar'inim'' after finishing their mandatory period of army service. Instead, a model started to be put forward in which ''bogrim'' ("graduates") of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jewish National Fund
The Jewish National Fund (JNF; , ''Keren Kayemet LeYisrael''; previously , ''Ha Fund HaLeumi'') is a non-profit organizationProfessor Alon Tal, The Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, The Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben Gurion University of the Negev"National Report of Israel, Years 2003–2005, to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)"; State of Israel, July 2006 founded in 1901 to buy land and encourage Jewish settlement () in Ottoman Syria (later Mandatory Palestine, subsequently Israel and the Palestinian territories) for Jewish settlement. By 2007, it owned 13% of the total land in Israel. Since its inception, the JNF has planted over 240 million trees in Israel. It has also built 180 dams and reservoirs, developed of land and established more than 1,000 parks. In 2002, the Israeli government awarded the JNF the Israel Prize for lifetime achievement and special contribution to society and the State of Israel. The JNF has faced num ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jewish Villages In Mandatory Palestine
Jews (, , ), or the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group and nation, originating from the Israelites of History of ancient Israel and Judah, ancient Israel and Judah. They also traditionally adhere to Judaism. Jewish ethnicity, religion, and community are highly interrelated, as Judaism is their ethnic religion, though it is not practiced by all ethnic Jews. Despite this, religious Jews regard Gerim, converts to Judaism as members of the Jewish nation, pursuant to the Conversion to Judaism, long-standing conversion process. The Israelites emerged from the pre-existing Canaanite peoples to establish Kingdom of Israel (Samaria), Israel and Kingdom of Judah, Judah in the Southern Levant during the Iron Age.John Day (Old Testament scholar), John Day (2005), ''In Search of Pre-Exilic Israel'', Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 47.5 [48] 'In this sense, the emergence of ancient Israel is viewed not as the cause of the demise of Canaanite culture but as its upshot'. Originally, J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Populated Places Established In 1944
Population is a set of humans or other organisms in a given region or area. Governments conduct a census to quantify the resident population size within a given jurisdiction. The term is also applied to non-human animals, microorganisms, and plants, and has specific uses within such fields as ecology and genetics. Etymology The word ''population'' is derived from the Late Latin ''populatio'' (a people, a multitude), which itself is derived from the Latin word ''populus'' (a people). Use of the term Social sciences In sociology and population geography, population refers to a group of human beings with some predefined feature in common, such as location, race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. Ecology In ecology, a population is a group of organisms of the same species which inhabit the same geographical area and are capable of interbreeding. The area of a sexual population is the area where interbreeding is possible between any opposite-sex pair within the area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kibbutzim
A kibbutz ( / , ; : kibbutzim / ) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1910, was Degania. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economic branches, including industrial plants and high-tech enterprises. Kibbutzim began as utopian communities, a combination of socialism and Zionism. In recent decades, some kibbutzim have been privatized and changes have been made in the communal lifestyle. A member of a kibbutz is called a ''kibbutznik'' ( / ; plural ''kibbutznikim'' or ''kibbutzniks''), the suffix ''-nik'' being of Slavic origin. In 2010, there were 270 kibbutzim in Israel with a total population of 126,000. Their factories and farms account for 9% of Israel's industrial output, worth US$8 billion, and 40% of its agricultural output, worth over US$1.7 billion. Some kibbutzim had also developed substantial high-tech and military industries. For example, in 2010, Kibbutz Sasa, co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Forests In Israel
The forests of contemporary Israel are mainly the result of a massive afforestation campaign by the Jewish National Fund (JNF). This article is a list of these forests. In the 19th century and up to World War I, the Ottoman Empire cleared the land of Israel of its natural reserves of pine and oak trees, in order to build railways across the empire. Since it was founded the JNF has planted in Israel more than 260 million trees creating 280 forests, and still operates today. Northern District Galilee Upper Galilee * Ahihud Forest – (Acre, Israel, Acre-Safed Road near Mount Gamal, Mt. Gamal) * Baram Forest – (Shlomi, Israel, Shlomi-Sasa, Israel, Sasa Road, near Meron, Israel, Meron Junction) * Biriya Forest – (Safed-Biriya Road) * Lower Hanita Forest – (Shlomi, Israel, Shlomi-Hanita Road) * Mount Shehumit, Mt. Shehumit (Har Nahash) - (Kiryat Shmona) * Parod Forest – (Acre, Israel, Acre-Safed Road, near Kibbutz Parod) * Segev Forest Lower Galilee *Beit Keshet Forest * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pnina Gary
Pnina Gary (; Dromi; 24 September 1927 – 2 August 2023) was an Israeli actress and theatre director. Biography Pnina Dromi was born and raised in Nahalal, Mandatory Palestine, the daughter of Yosef Dromi (previously Kotlar) and Tzipora Ostrowski. Her parents made aliyah from Ukraine in 1919. Gary attended to Nahalal Agricultural High School (), and later the teachers' seminar to become a kindergarten teacher. In March 1948, during Israel's 1948 Arab-Israeli War, war for independence, just a few days before she was supposed to marry Eli, the son of Rachel Yanait and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (later to be the second president of Israel), her Palmach member husband-to-be was killed in in the fields of their kibbutz, Beit Keshet. In September 1948, trying to recover from the outcome of the Beit Keshet battle, she volunteered to participate in an expedition of teachers to the DP camps around Munich. She was sent to help set up kindergartens in the camps and work with Jewish children who s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Israeli Love Story
''An Israeli Love Story'' is a play translated from the Hebrew language, Hebrew play ''Sippur Ahava Eretz Yisraeli''. It premiered in 2008 and still runs in repertory at Tel Aviv's Givatayim Theater and Cameri Theater. The play was written by Pnina Gary and is based on her own true life story during the period between 1942 through 1948. Stagings The one-woman show was directed by Pnina Gary herself, and it is still performed by Adi Bielski, who won the Israeli Best Actress Award in Fringe Theater in 2009 for this multi-character role. On March 28, 2011, a special evening marked the celebrating of 250 shows. Attending that evening, were the Culture and Sport Minister of Israel, Israeli Minister of Culture, Mrs Limor Livnat, and the recent winner of the Israeli Sapir Prize for Literature 2011, the writer Yoram Kaniuk. The play was performed in English language, English at The Leeds Jewish International Performing Arts Festival in 2009, at London's New End Theatre from May 18 to Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi ( ''Yitshak Ben-Tsvi''; 24 November 188423 April 1963; born Izaak Shimshelevich) was a historian, ethnologist, Labor Zionism, Labor Zionist leader and the longest-serving president of Israel. He was 1952 Israeli presidential election, first elected on 8 December 1952, assumed office on 16 December 1952, and continued to serve in the position until his death. As a scholar, Ben-Zvi conducted extensive research on History of the Jews and Judaism in the Land of Israel, Jewish communities in the Land of Israel, including those that existed before the foundation of the modern Israel, State of Israel. He Oral history preservation, preserved oral histories, gathered firsthand accounts and documentary evidence, and published a number of books and articles on the subject. He shed light on their traditions, Jewish languages, language, Jewish folklore, folklore, and Minhag, religious practices through his work, which frequently focused on the Mizrahi Jewish, Mizrahi and Sepha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Yanait
Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi (; May 1886 – 16 November 1979) was an Israeli author and educator, and a leading Labor Zionist. Ben-Zvi was the wife of the second President of Israel, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi. Biography Rachel Yanait was born Golda Lishansky in the town of Malyn, Radomyslsky Uyezd of the Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Ukraine). As a teenager in Kiev she joined the newly formed underground Marxist/Zionist party, Poale Zion. She supported herself while studying by teaching Hebrew. In 1904 she was amongst a group of 16 young people arrested after a clandestine meeting. She was held for several months in Lukyanivska Prison for being a Jew in Kiev without a permit. The following year, while studying agriculture in France, she was chosen as the Poale Zion delegate from Malyn to the Seventh Zionist Congress in Basel. After the Congress she accompanied Ber Borochov on a visit to the leader of the German Zionist Organisation in Berlin, Dr Arthur Hantke. They persuaded him t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sejera
Ilaniya () is a moshav in northern Israel. Also known as Sejera, after the adjacent Arab village al-Shajara, it was the first Jewish settlement in the Lower Galilee and played an important role in the Jewish settlement of the Galilee from its early years until the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. It falls under the jurisdiction of Lower Galilee Regional Council, and had a population of in . History Byzantine period An ancient burial cave near Ilaniya displays a red-painted menorah on one wall, with above it, indistinct letters in Jewish script that remain unexamined. Modern Jewish settlements The agricultural colony of Sejera, later Ilaniya, was established in 1900-1902 on land purchased by Baron Edmond James de Rothschild which was transferred to the management of the Jewish Colonization Association (JCA/ICA) in 1899. Also in 1899, JCA bought additional land for its planned colony. The first settlers were residents of Safed, a group of immigrants from Kurdistan and eight families of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1948 Arab–Israeli War
The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, also known as the First Arab–Israeli War, followed the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine, civil war in Mandatory Palestine as the second and final stage of the 1948 Palestine war. The civil war became a war of separate states with the Israeli Declaration of Independence on 14 May 1948, the end of the British Mandate for Palestine at midnight, and the entry of a Arab League, military coalition of Arab states into the territory of Mandatory Palestine the following morning. The war formally ended with the 1949 Armistice Agreements which established the Green Line (Israel), Green Line. Since the 1917 Balfour Declaration and the 1920 creation of the British Mandate of Palestine, and in the context of Zionism and the Aliyah, mass migration of European Jews to Palestine, there had been Intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine, tension and conflict between Arabs, Jews, and the British in Palestine. The conflict escalated into a civil war ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
