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Uri Ilan
Uri Ilan (; 17 February 1935 – 13 January 1955) was an Israeli soldier captured by the Syrians during Operation Zarzar on the Golan Heights who took his own life in captivity, after being captured in a covert operation. He became a symbol of courage and patriotism in Israel. In a note he left in his shoes which was discovered upon examination of his body, He wrote "I did not betray, I committed suicide", so as not to reveal a military secret. Chief of Staff Moshe Dayan quoted from the note the first words "I did not betray", which became a symbol of personal sacrifice for the sake of the country's security. Biography Early life Uri Ilan was born in 1935 in kibbutz Gan Shmuel. His mother was Fayge Ilanit, a member of the First Knesset, and a member of the Mapam faction. Uri was the great-grandson of the famed Talmudic scholar Rabbi Shimon Shkop. Capture and suicide In July 1953, Ilan enlisted in the Golani Brigade. On December 8, 1954, he was sent to an operation (t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gan Shmuel
Gan Shmuel (, ''lit.'' Shmuel's Garden) is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in Haifa District, east of Hadera, it falls under the jurisdiction of Menashe Regional Council. In it had a population of . The kibbutz was named after Rabbi Shmuel Mohilever. History During the late Ottoman period, in the 19th century, the area of Gan Shemuel were, according to historian Roy Marom, a part of a wooded, "sparsely populated coastal plain inhabited by Arabic-speaking highland peasants and nomads of Turkmen, Nubian, Egyptian and of Arabian-Peninsular descent". Between 1878 and 1880, Circassian refugees belonging to the Shapsegh, Abadzekh, and Kabardian clans established the village of Mez/ Khirbat al-Sarkas, a "modest adobe hamlet stood next to a swamp on the southern edge of the oak woodlands". Specifically, the lands upon which Gan Shmuel was founded belonged to the Ottoman-era al-Dardara estate. After purchasing al-Dardara in 1891, the founders of the town of Hadera planted Gan Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moshe Dayan
Moshe Dayan (; May 20, 1915 – October 16, 1981) was an Israeli military leader and politician. As commander of the Jerusalem front in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Chief of General Staff (Israel), Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (1953–1958) during the 1956 Suez Crisis, Sinai War, and as Defense Minister during the Six-Day War in 1967, he became a worldwide fighting symbol of the new state of Israel. In the 1930s, Dayan joined the Haganah, the pre-state Jewish defense force of Mandatory Palestine. He served in the Special Night Squads under Orde Wingate during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, Arab revolt in Palestine and later lost an eye to a sniper in a raid on Vichy France, Vichy forces in Lebanon during World War II. Dayan was close to David Ben-Gurion and joined him in leaving the Mapai party and setting up the Rafi (political party), Rafi party in 1965 with Shimon Peres. Dayan became Defence Minister just before the 1967 Six-Day War. Aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Gurion Airport
Ben Gurion International Airport , commonly known by the Hebrew language, Hebrew-language acronym (), is the main international airport of Israel. Situated on outskirts north of the city of Lod and directly south of the city of Or Yehuda, it is the busiest airport in the country. It is located to the northwest of Jerusalem and to the southeast of Tel Aviv. It was known as Lod Airport until 1973, when it was renamed in honour of David Ben-Gurion (1886–1973), the first prime minister of Israel. The airport serves as a hub for El Al, Israir, Arkia, and Sundor, and is managed by the Israel Airports Authority. In 2023, Ben Gurion Airport handled 21.1 million passengers, making it one of List of the busiest airports in the Middle East, the busiest airports in the Middle East. It is considered to be among the five best airports in the Middle East due to its passenger experience and its high level of security; while it has been the target of several terrorist attacks, no attempt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egypt
Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northern coast of Egypt, the north, the Gaza Strip of Palestine and Israel to Egypt–Israel barrier, the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to Egypt–Sudan border, the south, and Libya to Egypt–Libya border, the west; the Gulf of Aqaba in the northeast separates Egypt from Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Cairo is the capital, list of cities and towns in Egypt, largest city, and leading cultural center, while Alexandria is the second-largest city and an important hub of industry and tourism. With over 109 million inhabitants, Egypt is the List of African countries by population, third-most populous country in Africa and List of countries and dependencies by population, 15th-most populated in the world. Egypt has one of the longest histories o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinhas Lavon
Pinhas Lavon (; 12 July 190424 January 1976) was an Israeli politician, minister and labor leader, best known for the Lavon Affair. Early life Lavon was born Pinhas Lubianiker in the small city of Kopychyntsi in the Galicia region of Austria-Hungary, now part of Ukraine. He studied law at the University of Lviv, where he organized Histadrut organizations in the region. He made aliyah and moved to Mandatory Palestine in 1929. Political life Lavon was elected to the first Knesset in 1949, and served briefly as the leader of the Histadrut in 1949–50. He was appointed Minister of Agriculture in David Ben-Gurion's second government. He retained his seat in the 1951 elections, and in 1952 was appointed Minister without Portfolio. Following Ben-Gurion's resignation, he was appointed Minister of Defense in 1954. However, he resigned from the cabinet after he was accused of authorizing an Israeli false flag operation in Egypt, which came to be known as the Lavon Affair. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quneitra
Quneitra (also Al Qunaytirah, Qunaitira, or Kuneitra; , ''al-Qunayṭrah'' or ''al-Qunayṭirah'' ) is the largely destroyed and abandoned capital of the Quneitra Governorate in south-western Syria. It is situated in a high valley in the Golan Heights at 1,010 metres (3,313 feet) above sea level. Since 1974, pursuant to United Nations Security Council Resolution 350 and the Agreement on Disengagement between Israel and Syria, the city is inside the UN-patrolled buffer zone. Quneitra was founded in the Ottoman era as a way station on the caravan route to Damascus and subsequently became a garrison town of some 20,000 people. In 1946, it became part of the independent Syrian Republic within the Riff Dimashq Governorate and in 1964 became the capital of the split Quneitra Governorate. On 10 June 1967, the last day of the Six-Day War, Quneitra came under Israeli control. It was briefly recaptured by Syria during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, but Israel regained control in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan, Israel
Dan () is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the north of the Hula Valley, at the foot of Mount Hermon, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council. As of it had a population of . History Dan was founded in 1939 by Jewish farmers from Transylvania as part of the Tower and Stockade campaign. It is affiliated with the Hashomer Hatzair movement. In 1947, the population was 340. Dan was one of two villages established in honour of Menachem Ussishkin and counted among the "Ussishkin Fortresses". It was named after the Israelite town of " Dan" mentioned in Genesis 14:14, 1 Samuel 3:20 and 1 Kings 12:29, which has been identified with the nearby Tel Dan. Kibbutz Dan is located in the territory of the Israelite tribe of Dan delineated in Joshua 19:47. It suffered heavy losses during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, bearing the brunt of the Syrian invasion. File:דן.-JNF033828.jpeg, Dan under construction, 1940 File:דן - מראה-JNF034498.jpeg, Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tel Faher
Tel Faher or Golani Lookout is a former Syrian military outpost in the Golan Heights that has been occupied by Israel since the Six-Day War in 1967. Tel Faher was the site of an intense battle in 1967 between the Israel Defense Forces and the Syrian Army which ended in the conquest of the outpost by the Golani Brigade.The Syrian position at Tel Faher was heavily fortified with minefields, bunkers, trenches, and barbed wire protecting it. Despite taking heavy casualties, the Israelis managed to capture Tel Faher and forced the Syrians to retreat. The fall of Tel Faher caused the Syrian defensive line in the area to collapse, and this led to Israel conquering the Golan Heights just one day later. Tel Faher is now a park commemorating those who died in the battle. Name Tell el-Fakhar () was the name of a nearby village, now abandoned (se ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shimon Shkop
Shimon Yehuda Shkop (; 1860 – October 22, 1939) was Rosh Yeshiva (dean) of the Yeshiva of Telshe, and later of Yeshiva Shaar HaTorah of Grodno. Having innovated a style of Torah study, applying both to Halacha and to Talmud, he was widely regarded as a major Talmid Chacham (Talmudic scholar). Biography Early life Shkop was born in Torez, today in Ukraine, in 1860. At the age of twelve he went to study in the Mir Yeshiva for two years. He then traveled to the Volozhin yeshiva where he studied under Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, "Netziv", for six years. His study partners included Chaim Ozer Grodzinski. Shkop also joined the ''chaburah'' of Rav Chaim Soloveitchik, "Chaim Brisker", analyzing the ''gemara'' using what would come to be called the " Brisker derech"; he was thus among the first students exposed to the new approach. Telz and Grodno Shkop married a niece of Eliezer Gordon, and in 1884 was appointed a rosh mesivta at Telz Yeshiva, where he remained for 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mapam
File:Pre-State_Zionist_Workers'_Parties_chart.png, chart of zionist workers parties, 360px, right rect 167 83 445 250 Hapoel Hatzair rect 450 88 717 265 The non-partisans (pre-state Zionist political movement), Non Partisans rect 721 86 995 243 Poale Zion, Poalei Zion rect 152 316 373 502 Hapoel HaMizrachi, HaPoel HaMizrachi rect 552 328 884 512 Ahdut HaAvoda rect 891 301 1111 534 Poale Zion#Factions,_1920_split_and_aftermath, Poalei Zion Left rect 283 519 668 928 Mapai rect 5 665 169 1432 HaOved HaTzioni rect 697 747 918 953 Ahdut HaAvoda#Ahdut_HaAvoda_Movement, Ahdut HaAvoda Movement rect 755 977 959 1234 Ahdut HaAvoda#Ahdut_HaAvoda_Poale_Zion_Movement, Ahdut HaAvoda Poalei ZIon rect 775 1265 1136 1444 Mapam rect 966 1023 1232 1217 Hashomer Hatzair Workers Party, HaShomer Hatzair Workers' Party rect 1044 572 1228 766 Hashomer Hatzair, HaShomer HaTzair rect 942 769 1177 919 Socialist League of Palestine rect 387 1275 734 1447 Mapai rect 365 1260 174 1447 Hapoel HaMizrachi, HaPoel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1949 Israeli Legislative Election
Constituent Assembly elections were held in newly independent Israel on 25 January 1949. Voter turnout was 86.9%. Two days after its first meeting on 14 February 1949, legislators voted to change the name of the body to the Knesset (Hebrew: כנסת, translated as ''Assembly''). It is known today as the First Knesset. Background During the establishment of the state of Israel in May 1948, Israel's national institutions were established, which ruled the new state. These bodies were not elected bodies in the pure sense, and their members originated from the management of the Jewish agency and from the management of the Jewish National Council. The Israeli Declaration of Independence stated that: However, the elections were not held before the designated date due to the ongoing war and were cancelled twice, while no constitution was ever adopted. The elections were eventually held on 25 January 1949. Preparations for the elections These were the first elections held in Isra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Members Of The First Knesset
The 120 members of the first Knesset were 1949 Israeli legislative election, elected on 25 January 1949. The breakdown by party was as follows: *Mapai: 46 *Mapam: 19 (gained one member during the Knesset term) *United Religious Front: 16 *Herut: 14 (lost two members during the Knesset term) *General Zionists: 7 *Progressive Party (Israel), Progressive Party: 5 *Sephardim and Oriental Communities: 4 *Maki (historical political party), Maki: 4 (lost one member during the Knesset term) *Democratic List of Nazareth: 2 *Fighters' List: 1 *Women's International Zionist Organization, WIZO: 1 *Yemenite Association: 1 Members of the Knesset Replacements See also *Knesset *List of Knesset speakers *List of political parties in Israel *List of Israelis *List of Likud Knesset Members *Prime Minister of Israel *President of Israel *Politics of Israel External links Members of the First Knesset Knesset website {{Knesset members Members of the 1st Knesset (1949–1951), Lists of member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
