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Voice Of Israel
Voice of Israel was a Jerusalem-based private global broadcast network staffed by media professionals with a Zionist and often religious orientation, who saw their mission in pro-Israel advocacy (''hasbara'') and combating the global pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, by addressing the wider Jewish diaspora. It streamed digital news and talk radio between 2014 and 2015, aVoice of Israel , Bringing Israel Closer from Israel, about Israel, in English. Voice of Israel began broadcasting in July 2014 and was closed down due to lack of money in August 2015. Voice of Israel was listened to in more than 170 countries and gained over 40,000 "likes" on Facebook in less than a year. It was located in the JVP Media Quarter in Jerusalem. "Voice of Israel" is not to be confused with Kol Yisrael (lit. "Voice of Israel" in Hebrew), which is run by the Israel Broadcasting Authority. Orientation The station had a national Zionist orientation, the self-declared goal be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zionist
Zionism is an Ethnic nationalism, ethnocultural nationalist movement that emerged in History of Europe#From revolution to imperialism (1789–1914), Europe in the late 19th century that aimed to establish and maintain a national home for the Jews, Jewish people, pursued through the colonization of Palestine (region), Palestine, a region roughly corresponding to the Land of Israel in Judaism, with central importance in Jewish history. Zionists wanted to create a Jewish state in Palestine with as much land, as many Jews, and as few Palestinian people, Palestinian Arabs as possible. Zionism initially emerged in Central Europe, Central and Eastern Europe as a secular nationalist movement in the late 19th century, in reaction to newer waves of antisemitism and in response to the Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment. The arrival of Zionist settlers to Palestine during this period is widely seen as the start of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The Zionist claim to Palestine was base ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kach And Kahane Chai
Kach () was a radical Orthodox Jewish, religious Zionist political party in Israel, existing from 1971 to 1994. Founded by Rabbi Meir Kahane in 1971 based on his Jewish-Orthodox-nationalist ideology (subsequently dubbed Kahanism), the party won a single seat in the Knesset in the 1984 elections, after several electoral failures. However, it was barred from participating in the next elections in 1988 under the revised Knesset Elections Law banning parties that incited racism. After Kahane's assassination in 1990 the party split, with Kahane Chai ("Kahane Lives") breaking away from the main Kach faction. The party was ultimately also barred from standing in the 1992 elections and both organisations were banned outright in 1994 by the Israeli cabinet under 1948 anti-terrorism laws, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuvia Tenenbom
Tuvia Tenenbom (; born 1957) is an Israeli-American theater director, playwright and author who is the founding artistic director of the Jewish Theater of New York, the only English-speaking Jewish theater in New York City. Tenenbom was called the "founder of a new form of Jewish theatre" by the French ''Le Monde'' and a "New Jew" by the Israeli ''Maariv''. Writing Tenenbom has written over sixteen plays for The Jewish Theater of New York, among them: ''The Last Virgin'', ''Father of the Angels'', and ''One Hundred Gates''. Tenenbom has written for newspapers and websites. Tenenbom was a political columnist for ''The Forward'' and for the German ''Zeit Online''. He is a frequent contributor for ''Die Zeit''. Books Tenenbom's book ''I Sleep in Hitler's Room'', published by an imprint of The Jewish Theater of New York, is a psychological travelogue through present-day Germany. The book details the wide spread of modern anti-Semitism in Europe. The book received strong endorse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moshe Arens
Moshe Arens (; 27 December 1925 – 7 January 2019) was an Israeli aeronautical engineer, researcher, diplomat, and Likud politician. A member of the Knesset between 1973 and 1992 and again from 1999 until 2003, he served as Minister of Defense three times and once as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Arens also served as the Israeli ambassador to the U.S. and was a professor at the Technion in Haifa. Early life and education Arens was born in Kaunas, Lithuania, to a Jewish family. His father was an industrialist and his mother was a dentist. When he was a year old, his family moved to Riga, Latvia. where he attended elementary school. In 1939, Arens and his family emigrated to the United States, where his father had business interests. The family settled in New York City, where Arens attended George Washington High School. Arens was a leader in the Betar youth movement, and during World War II served in the United States Army Corps of Engineers as a technical sergeant. Following ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avi Dichter
Abraham Moshe "Avi" Dichter (, ; born 14 December 1952) is an Israeli politician currently serving as the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development. A former Minister of Internal Security and Shin Bet director, he resigned from the Knesset and left Kadima in August 2012 in order to become Minister of Home Front Defense, a position he vacated in March 2013. Biography Avraham (Avi) Dichter was born in Ashkelon. His parents were Holocaust survivors from Poland. As an adolescent, he joined the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement. After graduating high school, he served in an elite unit of the Israel Defense Forces, Sayeret Matkal, under then Commander Ehud Barak. Upon completing his military service, Dichter joined Shin Bet, Israel's internal security service. In 1986, he earned a BA in Social Science from Bar-Ilan University, in Ramat Gan. He also has an MBA from Tel Aviv University. In 1973, he married Ilana Wallerstein, a teacher and artist who he had met in high school. They ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Huckabee
Michael Dale Huckabee (, born August 24, 1955) is an American diplomat, political commentator, Baptist minister, and politician serving as the 29th United States Ambassador to Israel, United States ambassador to Israel since 2025. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, he served as the 44th governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007, and ran for his party's United States presidential primary, presidential nomination in both Mike Huckabee 2008 presidential campaign, 2008 and Mike Huckabee 2016 presidential campaign, 2016. Huckabee was the host of the talk show ''Huckabee'', which ran on the Fox News Channel from 2008 to 2015, and on Trinity Broadcasting Network, TBN from October 2017 to January 2025. From April 2012 through December 2013, he also hosted a daily radio program, ''The Mike Huckabee Show'', on weekday afternoons for Cumulus Media Networks. Huckabee is an ordained Southern Baptist Minister (Christianity), pastor noted for his Evangelicalism i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudy Giuliani
Rudolph William Louis Giuliani ( , ; born May 28, 1944) is an American politician and Disbarment, disbarred lawyer who served as the 107th mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001. He previously served as the United States Associate Attorney General from 1981 to 1983 and the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1983 to 1989. Giuliani led the Mafia Commission Trial, 1980s federal prosecution of Five Families, New York City mafia bosses as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. After a failed campaign for Mayor of New York City in the 1989 New York City mayoral election, 1989 election, he succeeded in 1993, and was reelected in 1997, campaigning on a "tough on crime" platform. He led New York's controversial "civic cleanup" from 1994 to 2001 and appointed William Bratton as New York City's new New York City Police Commissioner, police commissioner. In 2000, Early Giuliani campaign for the 2000 United States Senate election in New York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brigitte Gabriel
Brigitte Gabriel (; born Hanan Qahwaji, 21 October 1964) is a Lebanese-American conservative activist, author and lecturer, and critic of Islam. She is the founder of ACT for America, an advocacy group that opposes Islamic extremism. Early life Gabriel was born on 21 October 1964 to a family of Maronite Christians in the Marjeyoun District of Lebanon. During the Lebanese Civil War, Muslim militants launched an assault on a Lebanese military base near her family's house and destroyed her home. Gabriel, who was ten years old at the time, suffered shrapnel injuries in the attack. For the next seven years, she and her parents were forced to live underground in an bomb shelter with only a small kerosene heater, no sanitary systems, no electricity or running water, and little food. Gabriel had to crawl in a roadside ditch to evade Muslim snipers on her way to collect water from a nearby spring. In the spring of 1978, a bomb explosion caused Gabriel and her parents to become t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Carson
Ben Solomon Carson Sr. (born September 18, 1951) is an American retired neurosurgery, neurosurgeon, academic, author, and government official who served as the 17th United States secretary of housing and urban development from 2017 to 2021. A pioneer in the field of neurosurgery, he was a candidate for President of the United States in the Republican Party presidential primaries, 2016, 2016 Republican primaries. Carson is one of the most prominent black conservatism in the United States, black conservatives in the United States. Carson became the director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center in 1984 at age 33, then the youngest chief of pediatric neurosurgery in the United States. In 1987, he gained significant fame after leading a team of surgeons in the first-known separation of conjoined twins joined at the back of the head. Although the surgery was a success, the twins continued to experience neurological and medical complications. His additional ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yosef Abramowitz
Yosef Abramowitz (; born 1964) is an Israeli-American environmentalist and solar energy pioneer and innovator who has been nominated by 12 African countries for the Nobel Peace Prize. He is president and CEO of Gigawatt Global/Energiya Global Capital as well as co-founder of the Arava Power Company and the NGO Gigawatt Impact. Biography Abramowitz was born the United States to a Jewish family. He lived in Israel as a child from 1969 to 1972, before returning to Boston. While living in Massachusetts, he attended the Solomon Schechter School of Greater Boston, and graduated in 1980 from Hebrew College Prozdor and in 1982 from Brookline High School. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Jewish Public Policy from Boston University in 1986, where he studied under Elie Wiesel, Howard Zinn and Hillel Levine, and a Master of Arts in Magazine Journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1991, which he attended on a Wexner Graduate Fellowship. He is married to Rabbi S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
OurCrowd
OurCrowd is an online global venture investing platform that empowers institutions and individual accredited investors to invest and engage in emerging technology companies at an early stage while still privately held. Based in Jerusalem, the company launched in February 2013, and has since opened overseas branches in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Spain, Singapore, Brazil, and the UAE. As of November 2022, OurCrowd has over 200,000 registered members and has received over US$2 billion in commitments. OurCrowd uses equity crowdfunding as its model. In equity crowdfunding, investments into a company's shares are pooled together from the crowd. OurCrowd allows each investor to choose the individual companies in which to invest. Investing in OurCrowd is available only to accredited investors, allowing them to choose in which portfolio companies and funds to co-invest in with a minimum of $10,000 in companies or $50,000 in funds. Our Crowd requires its Israe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Medved
Jonathan Medved (; born September 16, 1955) is a serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist and angel investor in Israel's high-tech scene. He is the founder and CEO of OurCrowd, a leading equity crowdfunding platform. Medved was named one of the "50 Most Influential Jews" by the ''Jerusalem Post'', where he was dubbed "the startup nation's guru." Biography Jon Medved was born into a traditional but secular Jewish family in San Diego, California, the son of Renate (Hirsch) and David Medved, David Bernard Medved, a Navy veteran and scientist. His father worked for the defense contractor Convair and later for NASA. Medved attended Palisades Charter High School, Palisades High School when the family moved to Los Angeles, California. He attended UC Berkeley in Berkeley, California. He has four brothers, including radio talk show host and movie critic Michael Medved. Medved became more observant over time and credits Rabbi Daniel Lapin with helping them feel accepted in the religious co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
