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Haggai Hoberman
Haggai Hoberman ( he, חגי הוברמן; b. 24 Nisan 1959) is an Israeli journalist and author. Biography Haggai Hoberman grew up in Haifa. He served in the Nahal brigade in Kfar Etzion. Subsequent to completing his army service, he worked as a welder in the Amgazit factory. In 1984, he moved to Netzarim for three years and then to Bnei Darom. Journalism career He began his journalistic career at Zra'im, a Bnei Akiva newspaper. Later, he served as night editor at HaTzofe. He was the paper's settlement affairs correspondent for fourteen years. In 2007, after HaTzofe was bought out, he became the military affairs correspondent for Makor Rishon. Published works *''Eretz Moledet'' (1994): (lit. Homeland) Touring Israel through its past, pub. Bet El Publishing * ''Yichudo shel Kfar'' (2003): (lit. Uniqueness of the Village) the story of Kfar Haroeh * ''Shorashim Becholot'' (2005): (lit. Roots in the Sand) the story of Gush Katif from its beginning to the end * ''Keneged Kol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haggai Hoberman
Haggai Hoberman ( he, חגי הוברמן; b. 24 Nisan 1959) is an Israeli journalist and author. Biography Haggai Hoberman grew up in Haifa. He served in the Nahal brigade in Kfar Etzion. Subsequent to completing his army service, he worked as a welder in the Amgazit factory. In 1984, he moved to Netzarim for three years and then to Bnei Darom. Journalism career He began his journalistic career at Zra'im, a Bnei Akiva newspaper. Later, he served as night editor at HaTzofe. He was the paper's settlement affairs correspondent for fourteen years. In 2007, after HaTzofe was bought out, he became the military affairs correspondent for Makor Rishon. Published works *''Eretz Moledet'' (1994): (lit. Homeland) Touring Israel through its past, pub. Bet El Publishing * ''Yichudo shel Kfar'' (2003): (lit. Uniqueness of the Village) the story of Kfar Haroeh * ''Shorashim Becholot'' (2005): (lit. Roots in the Sand) the story of Gush Katif from its beginning to the end * ''Keneged Kol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HaTzofe
:This article is about a newspaper; see Emanuel Hatzofe for the Israeli sculptor ''HaTzofe'' ( he, הצופה, ''The Observer'') was a Hebrew-language daily newspaper published in Israel. In April 2007, it was reduced to weekly publication until its closing over a year later. According to the paper's website, its point of view is Zionist, nationalist and religious. It claimed to be the only daily newspaper of the Israeli political right, with an emphasis on religious Zionism. The newspaper had been associated in its past to the Mizrachi movement as well as being the beacon of National Religious Party. In the May 2003, Shlomo Ben-Tzvi purchased the newspaper and in 2004, he purchased the weekly Makor Rishon as well. On 25 April 2007, ''HaTzofe'' stopped publishing a daily edition, instead becoming a weekly insert in ''Makor Rishon'' which instead began daily operations. It printed its last edition on Friday, 26 December 2008. See also *List of newspapers in Israel References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1959 Births
Events January * January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of Earth's Moon, and was also the first spacecraft to be placed in heliocentric orbit. * January 3 ** The three southernmost atolls of the Maldive archipelago ( Addu Atoll, Huvadhu Atoll and Fuvahmulah island) declare independence. ** Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state. * January 4 ** In Cuba, rebel troops led by Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos enter the city of Havana. ** Léopoldville riots: At least 49 people are killed during clashes between the police and participants of a meeting of the ABAKO Party in Léopoldville in the Belgian Congo. * January 6 ** Fidel Castro arrives in Havana. ** The International Maritime Organization is inaugurated. * January 7 – The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yesha
Yesha ( he, יש"ע) is a Hebrew acronym for " Judea, Samaria, Gaza" (, "Yehuda Shomron 'Azza") – a geographical area, roughly corresponding to the West Bank and Gaza Strip combined. ''Yesha'' is one of a number of terms used to describe the areas of former Mandatory Palestine, occupied by Egypt and Jordan and later became a part of a military governorate. The Israeli Military Governorate was established by Israel in the Israeli-occupied territories following the Six-Day War in June 1967, together with Sinai and Golan areas. In 1982, areas of Yesha were transferred from military occupation governance to Israeli Civil Administration under the Ministry of Defense, whereas East Jerusalem was unilaterally annexed to Israel; the same year Sinai was returned to Egypt, while Western Golan was unilaterally annexed via the Golan Law. In 1994 and 1995, much of Yesha was transferred to autonomous rule of the Palestinian Authority, under the Oslo Accords. Other acronyms used by Israel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gush Katif
Gush Katif ( he, גוש קטיף, , Harvest Bloc) was a bloc of 17 Israeli settlements in the southern Gaza strip. In August 2005, the Israeli army forcibly removed the 8,600 residents of Gush Katif from their homes after a decision from the Cabinet. Their communities were demolished as part of Israel's unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip. Geography Gush Katif was located on the southwestern edge of the Gaza Strip, bordered on the southwest by Rafah and the Egyptian border, on the east by Khan Yunis, on the northeast by Deir el-Balah, and on the west and northwest by the Mediterranean Sea. A narrow one kilometer strip of land populated by Bedouins known as al-Mawasi lay along the Mediterranean coast. Most of Gush Katif was situated on the sand dunes that separate the coastal plain from the sea along much of the southeastern Mediterranean. Two roads served the residents of Gush Katif: Road 230, which runs from the southwest along the sea from the Egyptian borde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kfar Haroeh
Kfar Haroeh ( he, כְּפַר הָרֹאֶ"ה, ''lit.'' Haroeh Village) is a religious moshav in central Israel. Located in the Israeli coastal plain, coastal plain between Hadera and Netanya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of . History Kfar HaRoeh was established on 23 November 1933 and named for Abraham Isaac Kook, the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Mandatory Palestine, Mandate Palestine. "Haroeh" is an acronym for HaRav Avraham HaCohen Kook. The founders were religious Jews who aliyah, immigrated from Europe. The land which the village was built on had been bought by the Jewish National Fund. The yeshiva on the moshav was founded by Rabbi Moshe-Zvi Neria. This was the forerunner of the numerous ''Mamlachti dati, Mamlachti Dati'' metivta, Torah high schools associated with Bnei Akiva. In 2009, the yeshiva celebrated its 70th birthday in the presence of many distinguished alumni. Beit Hazon, initially a neighborhood o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Makor Rishon
''Makor Rishon'' ( he, מָקוֹר רִאשׁוֹן lit. "Firsthand Source") is a semi-major Israeli newspaper associated with Religious Zionism and the conservative right-wing. History ''Makor Rishon'' was founded as a weekly magazine in July 1997 in order to create an independent newspaper with a Jewish religious and nationalistic slant. The paper was the brainchild of its original owner, Rabbi Shmuel Tal. The Listenberg family, a National Religious family in the diamond business based in Belgium and Tel Aviv financed the founding of the newspaper. Journalist Meir Uziel was hired to recruit the staff. Uziel enlisted Michael Ruzulio to find writers. Ruzulio had served as a reporter for ''Yedioth Ahronoth'' as well as for the Second Authority for Television and Radio, and helped create the “Voice of the Red Sea” radio station. The newsroom was established in the “Pirsum Yisrael” offices located in Givat Shaul in Jerusalem and included religious and secular journalist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bnei Akiva
Bnei Akiva ( he, בְּנֵי עֲקִיבָא, , "Children of Akiva") is the largest religious Zionist youth movement in the world, with over 125,000 members in 42 countries. It was first established in Mandatory Palestine in 1929. History Bnei Akiva was established on Lag BaOmer 1929 as the youth wing of the Mizrachi movement. Concurrent with the establishment of the movement in pre-independence Israel, organizations of religious youth operated in the Diaspora. In 1958, the Israeli and Diaspora groups merged to form the modern World Bnei Akiva, which operates both in and out of Israel for Diaspora youth, along with Bnei Akiva Israel, which operates in Israel for Israeli youth. Ideology Bnei Akiva's objectives are to educate Jewish youth with values of Torah and work, to provide stimulating experiential and informal opportunities for encountering Judaism, and to encourage Jewish continuity and leadership. Bnei Akiva's twin ideals of ''Torah'' and ''Avodah'' translate to reli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nisan
Nisan (or Nissan; he, נִיסָן, Standard ''Nīsan'', Tiberian ''Nīsān''; from akk, 𒊬𒊒𒄀 ''Nisanu'') in the Babylonian and Hebrew calendars is the month of the barley ripening and first month of spring. The name of the month is an Akkadian language borrowing, although ultimately originates in Sumerian ''nisag'' "first fruits". In the Hebrew calendar it is the first month of the ecclesiastical year, called the "first of the months of the year" (Book of Exodus 12:1-2), "first month" (Ex 12:14), and the month of ''Aviv'' (Ex 13:4) ''ḥōḏeš hā-’āḇîḇ''). It is called Nisan in the Book of Esther in the Tanakh and later in the Talmud, which calls it the "New Year", Rosh HaShana, for kings and pilgrimages. It is a month of 30 days. Nisan usually falls in March–April on the Gregorian calendar. Counting from 1 Tishrei, the civil new year, it would be the seventh month (eighth, in leap year), but in contemporary Jewish culture, both months are viewed as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bnei Darom
Bnei Darom ( he, בְּנֵי דָּרוֹם, ''lit.'' Sons of the South) is a religious moshav shitufi in central Israel. Located near the Mediterranean coast, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Yavne Regional Council. In it had a population of . History Bnei Darom was established in 1949 by members of the gar'in group ''Netivot Kfar Darom'' who had been forced out of Kibbutz Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip when it was occupied by the Egyptian Army during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. They were joined by another gar'in group, ''Morasha'' from the United States, though most of its members were not prepared for the kibbutz-style life in a moshav shitufi and left, some of them to form Beit Hazon. Originally affiliated with Hapoel HaMizrachi, it joined the Religious Kibbutz Movement as a moshav shitufi in 2007. According to Walid Khalidi, Bnei Darom was founded on land belonging to Isdud. However, according to Andrew Petersen, it was on land belonging to the depopulated Palest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netzarim (settlement)
Netzarim ( he, נְצָרִים) was an Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip about 5 kilometers southwest of Gaza City. It was established in 1972. In August 2005, the inhabitants of Netzarim were evicted by the Israel Defense Forces as part of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan. History It began as a Secular Jewish culture, secular Nahal (Young Pioneer) outpost of the Hashomer Hatzair movement; in 1984 it became an Orthodox Judaism, orthodox kibbutz. A few years later, the residents decided to change from a kibbutz to a village. It was often referred to in the media as a stronghold for Religious Zionism. Its activities included a mango plantation and vineyard, greenhouse, hothouse cultivated Yam (vegetable), yams and cherry tomatoes, and a prestigious Greek_citron#Introduction_to_Israel, etrog plantation. The settlement also boasted day care centers, kindergartens, a primary school, a kollel, a Yeshiva, and the Jews of Gaza Heritage Institute, which documented Jewish settl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
