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Celebrate Israel Parade
Israel Day on Fifth (formerly the Salute to Israel Parade and then the Celebrate Israel Parade) is an annual parade in support of Israel that takes place along Fifth Avenue in New York. The parade travels north on Fifth Avenue from 57th Street to 74th Street. According to the organizers of the parade, it is the largest gathering in the world in support of Israel. It has been held annually in New York City since 1964. Contingents of marchers come from the New York metropolitan area as well as from other parts of the country Jewish day schools, Synagogues, Youth Groups, Hillels and other organizations including the Chai Riders Motorcycle Club. Marchers also include prominent local politicians. History In 1964 Haim Zohar, Charles Bick, Ted Comet, Alvin Schiff, and Dan Ronen worked together in order to plan a demonstration of American Jewish solidarity with Israel. They coordinated with the Manhattan Day School to march from their school to a theater on Broadway. This March ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel Day Parade 2007 Flags
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Israeli-occupied territories, It occupies the Occupied Palestinian territories, Palestinian territories of the West Bank in the east and the Gaza Strip in the south-west. Israel also has a small coastline on the Red Sea at its southernmost point, and part of the Dead Sea lies along its eastern border. Status of Jerusalem, Its proclaimed capital is Jerusalem, while Tel Aviv is the country's Gush Dan, largest urban area and Economy of Israel, economic center. Israel is located in a region known as the Land of Israel, synonymous with the Palestine (region), Palestine region, the Holy Land, and Canaan. In antiquity, it was home to the Canaanite civilisation followed by the History of ancient Israel and Judah, kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Situate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midtown Manhattan
Midtown Manhattan is the central portion of the New York City borough of Manhattan, serving as the city's primary central business district. Midtown is home to some of the city's most prominent buildings, including the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, the Hudson Yards, Manhattan, Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project, the headquarters of the United Nations, Grand Central Terminal, and Rockefeller Center, as well as several prominent tourist destinations, including Broadway theatre, Broadway, Times Square, and Koreatown, Manhattan, Koreatown. New York Penn Station, Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan is the busiest transportation hub in the Western Hemisphere. Midtown Manhattan is the largest central business district in the world, and has been ranked as the densest central business district in the world in terms of employees, at . Midtown also ranks among the world's most expensive locations for real estate; Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan has commanded the world's high ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Serero (opera Singer)
David Serero (born 22 April 1981) is a Moroccan-French baritone opera singer. He has sung in many concerts and performed in opera, theater and musicals such as the title role in ''Cyrano de Bergerac'', ''Othello'', ''Richard III'', ''Don Giovanni'', ''Rigoletto'' and ''Nabucco'', Shylock in ''The Merchant of Venice'', Don Quixote in ''Man of La Mancha'', Escamillo in ''Carmen'', Enrico in ''Lucia di Lammermoor'' and Amonasro in ''Aida'', and in films and TV series. He has toured in America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Russia. He received the 2019 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2020, he received the Unesco Award for Diversity. He won the 2020 BroadwayWorld Awards for Best Performer of the decade, Best Producer of a Musical of the decade, Best Producer of a Play of the decade. The Mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, awarded him with the Certificate of Recognition for his contributions to the City of New York. Early life and education Born in Paris t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boycott, Divestment And Sanctions
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) is a nonviolent Palestinian-led movement promoting boycotts, divestments, and economic sanctions against Israel. Its objective is to pressure Israel to meet what the BDS movement describes as Israel's obligations under international law, defined as withdrawal from the occupied territories, removal of the separation barrier in the West Bank, full equality for Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel, and "respecting, protecting, and promoting the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties". The movement is organized and coordinated by the Palestinian BDS National Committee. BDS is modeled after the Anti-Apartheid Movement. BDS supporters describe it as a human rights movement, and compare the Palestinians' plight to that of apartheid-era black South Africans. Protests and conferences in support of the movement have been held in several countries. Its mascot, which features on its logotype, is Handala, a sym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Mark Cuomo ( , ; born December 6, 1957) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 56th governor of New York from 2011 until his resignation in 2021. A member of the Democratic Party and son of former governor Mario Cuomo, Cuomo previously served as the 64th attorney general of New York from 2007 to 2010, and is currently running for mayor of New York City. Born in Queens, New York City, Cuomo is a graduate of Fordham University and Albany Law School. He began his career working as the campaign manager for his father in the 1982 New York gubernatorial election. Later, Cuomo entered the private practice of law and chaired the New York City Homeless Commission from 1990 to 1993. Cuomo then served in the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development as assistant secretary from 1993 to 1997 and as secretary from 1997 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. Cuomo was elected New York attorney general in 2006, after a failed bid to win the Democrati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill De Blasio
Bill de Blasio (; born Warren Wilhelm Jr., May 8, 1961; later Warren de Blasio-Wilhelm) is an American politician who was the List of mayors of New York City, 109th mayor of New York City, mayor of New York City from 2014 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, he held the office of New York City Public Advocate from 2010 to 2013. De Blasio was born in Manhattan and raised primarily in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He graduated from New York University and Columbia University before brief stints working as a campaign manager for Charles Rangel and Hillary Clinton. De Blasio started his career as an elected official on the New York City Council, representing the New York City's 39th City Council district, 39th district in Brooklyn from 2002 to 2009. After one term as public advocate, he was elected mayor of New York City in 2013 New York City mayoral election, 2013 and reelected in 2017 New York City mayoral election, 2017. De Blasio's policy ini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ofir Akunis
Ofir Akunis (; born 28 May 1973) is an Israeli politician and diplomat. Since May 2024 he has been the Israeli Consul General in New York, his first diplomatic posting. As a politician, Akunis served as a member of the Knesset for Likud and was the Minister of Science and Technology from 2015 to 2020 and from 2022 to 2024. He previously held the posts of Minister of Labor, Social Affairs and Social Services in 2020 and Minister of Regional Cooperation in 2020-2021. Biography Early life Akunis was born in Tel Aviv. His grandfather was a Greek-Jew who immigrated to Israel from Saloniki in 1934 and was a member of the Likud Party himself. His mother immigrated to Israel from Poland in 1957. He attended the Herzliya Hebrew High School between 1987 and 1991 and served as youth correspondent for the weekly " Ma'ariv LaNoar" magazine. Akunis' mandatory military service was spent as a correspondent for the Chief Education Officer of the Education and Youth Corps. After his army ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ksenia Svetlova
Ksenia Svetlova (, ; born 28 July 1977) is an Israeli politician, journalist, associate professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and policy fellow at the Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies. She served as a member of the Knesset for the Zionist Union. Personal life Svetlova was born in Moscow. In 1991, at age 14, she immigrated to Israel with her mother. Her mother said that the only country they could immigrate to was Israel, stating: "If we must leave our beloved city, our native Moscow, then we can only leave it for home." In Israel, Svetlova attended Tzvia school for girls Jerusalem. She later studied Islamic and Middle Eastern history at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, earning Bachelor's and Master's degrees. , she is a doctoral candidate in Middle Eastern studies at Bar-Ilan University. She is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. Svetlova had both Russian and Israeli citizenship. As a result of her Russian citizenship, while she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revital Swid
Revital Swid (; born 17 August 1967) is an Israeli criminal defense lawyer and politician. She served as a member of Knesset for the Zionist Union and serves as a member of the Labor Party. Biography Swid was born in Hadera, Israel, to Yosef and Bruria (née Castel) Maimon. Her father was a Libyan-Jewish immigrant to Israel while her mother was the scion of Sephardi Jewish family native to Jerusalem which had participated in the founding of Hadera. She completed her BA and MA in law at Bar-Ilan University. She later interned in the criminal division of the Tel Aviv District Attorney's Office. For several years she worked as an attorney in Netanya. In 1994 she served for several months as General Counsel of the Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Hadera. That same year, she founded an independent law firm. Among its clients were the Abutbul family, members of the Israeli mafia. She came to notoriety as a defense attorney during the murder trial of Ronnie Ron and Marie-Charlotte P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoav Ben-Tzur
Rabbi Yoav Ben-Tzur (; born 11 June 1958) is an Israeli politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Shas and as a Minister in the Ministry of Labor. Ben-Tzur previously served as the acting Minister of Health between January and April 2023. Biography Born in Kfar Saba, Ben-Tzur attended school in Netanya, and the Or Yisrael yeshiva in Petah Tikva. During his military service in the IDF, he served in the Soldier Teachers unit. He later became a reserve captain in the Nahal Brigade. Between 1985 and 1992, he worked at the Or Hadash middle boarding school. In 1993, he became Immigration Co-Ordinator in the Northern District for the Ministry of Religious Affairs. The following year, he took up the position of Deputy Director General of the National Centre for the Development of Holy Places, where he worked between 1994 and 1997. He then became CEO of HaMeshakem in 1998, serving until 2008. In 2001, he became chairman of the Jerusalem Religious Council, a po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avraham Naguise
Avraham Neguise (; born 10 February 1958) is an Israeli politician and activist for the Falash Mura community. He served as a member of the Knesset for the Likud party from 2015 to 2019. Early life and education Neguise was born in the city of Gondar in northern Ethiopia, where he worked as a shepherd. He emigrated to Israel in 1985. He earned a BA and MA in social work at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, an LLB from Sha'arei Mishpat College, an MA in initiatives and renewal from the Swinburne University of Technology and a PhD in education from the University of Sussex. Political and social activism Neguise founded and served as director-general of South Wing to Zion, an organisation representing Ethiopian immigrants, and is known for his role in leading the struggle to bring the rest of Ethiopian Jewry to Israel. In 2007 Neguise protested the end of Israel's programs in Ethiopia to support aliyah. He said that the remaining community of Ethiopian Jews had established ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second Intifada
The Second Intifada (; ), also known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada, was a major uprising by Palestinians against Israel and its Israeli-occupied territories, occupation from 2000. Starting as a civilian uprising in Jerusalem and October 2000 protests in Israel, Israel proper, Israeli security responded with extreme violence, killing over 100 Palestinian protesters within the first few weeks. This led to the uprising devolving into a period of heightened violence in Palestine and Israel. This violence, including shooting attacks, suicide bombings, and military operations continued until the Sharm El Sheikh Summit of 2005, Sharm el-Sheikh Summit of 2005, which ended hostilities. The general triggers for the unrest are speculated to have been centered on the failure of the 2000 Camp David Summit, which was expected to reach a final agreement on the Israeli–Palestinian peace process in July 2000. An uptick in violent incidents started in September 2000, after Israeli politician Arie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
