Am Yisrael Foundation

picture info	Am Yisrael Foundation Am Yisrael Foundation Am Yisrael Foundation (Hebrew: קרן עם ישראל‎) is a Tel Aviv and New York-based foundation and umbrella nonprofit organization for a variety of initiatives that promote Zionist [...More...]
picture info	Jewish Jews Jews (Hebrew: יְהוּדִים‬ ISO 259-3 Yehudim, Israeli pronunciation [jehuˈdim]) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group[12] and a nation[13][14][15] originating from the Israelites,[16][17][18] or Hebrews,[19][20] of the Ancient Near East. Jewish ethnicity, nationhood, and religion are strongly interrelated,[21] as [...More...]
picture info	Kibbutz A kibbutz (Hebrew: קִבּוּץ‬ / קיבוץ‬, lit. "gathering, clustering"; regular plural kibbutzim קִבּוּצִים‬ / קיבוצים‬) is a collective community in Israel Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1909, was Degania.[1] Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economic branches, including industrial plants and high-tech enterprises.[2] Kibbutzim began as utopian communities, a combination of socialism and Zionism.[3] 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 (Hebrew: קִבּוּצְנִיק‬ / קיבוצניק‬; plural kibbutznikim or kibbutzniks). In 2010, there were 270 kibbutzim in Israel [...More...]
picture info	Naftali Bennett Naftali Bennett Naftali Bennett (Hebrew: נַפְתָּלִי בֶּנֶט‬; born 25 March 1972) is an Israeli politician who has led the right-wing religious The Jewish Home The Jewish Home party since 2012. He has served as Israel's Minister of Education since 2015, and as the Minister of Diaspora Affairs since 2013. Between 2013 and 2015, he held the posts of Minister of Economy and Minister of Religious Services. Born and raised in Haifa, the son of immigrants from the United States, Bennett served in the Sayeret Matkal Sayeret Matkal and Maglan Maglan special forces units of the Israel Israel Defense Forces, taking part in many combat operations, and subsequently became a software entrepreneur [...More...]
picture info	Yair Lapid Yair Lapid Yair Lapid (Hebrew: יאיר לפיד‎, born 5 November 1963) is an Israeli politician, former Finance Minister and former journalist who is the Chairman of the Yesh Atid Yesh Atid Party. He served as the Israeli Minister of Finance between 2013 and 2014. Prior to his entry into politics in 2012, he was a journalist, author, TV presenter TV presenter and news anchor. The centrist Yesh Atid Yesh Atid Party, which he founded, became the second largest party in the Knesset Knesset by winning 19 seats in its first election in 2013. The greater than anticipated results contributed to Lapid's reputation as a leading moderate. In March 2013, following his coalition agreement with Likud, Lapid was appointed as the Israeli Minister of Finance [...More...]
picture info	Tzipi Livni Tziporah Malka "Tzipi" Livni (Hebrew: ציפורה מלכה "ציפי" לבני‬; pronounced [tsipoˈʁa malˈka ˈtsipi ˈlivni] born 8 July 1958) is a prominent Israeli politician and former Foreign Minister of Israel. Widely considered the most powerful woman in Israel Israel since Golda Meir,[1][2] Livni has served in eight different cabinet positions throughout her career, setting the record for most government roles held by an Israeli woman.[3] Consequently, she has achieved a number of milestones in Israeli government, as the first female Vice Prime Minister, Justice Minister, Agriculture Minister, and Housing [...More...]
picture info	Meir Dagan Aluf Meir Dagan Meir Dagan (Hebrew: מאיר דגן‎; 30 January 1945 – 17 March 2016) was a former Israel Israel Defense Forces Major General Major General and former Director of the Mossad.[2]Contents1 Personal life and education 2 Military and intelligence career 3 Business career 4 Illness and death 5 See also 6 References 7 External linksPersonal life and education[edit] Meir Huberman (later Dagan) was born on a train on the outskirts of Kherson,[3] between the Soviet Union Soviet Union and Poland Poland during World War II World War II to Polish Jewish parents who were fleeing Poland Poland for the Soviet Union Soviet Union to escape the Holocaust. His maternal grandfather, Ber Erlich Sloshny, was killed by the Nazis [...More...]
picture info	Natan Sharansky Natan Sharansky Natan Sharansky (Hebrew: נתן שרנסקי‬, Russian: Ната́н Щара́нский, Ukrainian: Натан Щаранський; born Anatoly Borisovich Shcharansky (Russian: Анато́лий Бори́сович Щара́нский, Ukrainian: Анатолій Борисович Щаранський) on 20 January 1948) is an Israeli politician, human rights activist and author who, as a refusenik in the Soviet Union Soviet Union during the 1970s and 1980s, spent nine years in Soviet prisons [...More...]
picture info	Yisrael Meir Lau Yisrael Meir Lau Yisrael Meir Lau (Hebrew: ישראל מאיר לאו‬; born 1 June 1937) served as the Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv, Israel, and Chairman of Yad Vashem. He previously served as the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel Israel from 1993 to 2003.Contents1 Biography 2 Rabbinical career 3 Interfaith work 4 Presidential candidacy 5 Awards and recognition 6 Views 7 Published works 8 See also 9 References 10 External linksBiography[edit] Yisrael Meir Lau Yisrael Meir Lau (8 years old) in the arms of Elazar Schiff, Buchenwald Buchenwald survivors at their arrival at Haifa Haifa on 15 July 1945Lau was born on 1 June 1937, in the Polish town of Piotrków Trybunalski. His father, Rabbi Moshe Chaim Lau (Polish: Mojżesz Chaim Lau), the last Chief Rabbi of the town, was killed in the Treblinka extermination camp [...More...]
picture info	Jonathan Sacks Jonathan Henry Sacks, Baron Sacks, MBE (Hebrew: Yaakov Zvi, יעקב צבי; born 8 March 1948) is a British Orthodox rabbi, philosopher, theologian, author and politician. He served as the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth from 1991 to 2013. As the spiritual head of the United Synagogue, the largest synagogue body in the UK, he was the Chief Rabbi Rabbi of those Orthodox synagogues, but was not recognized as the religious authority for the Haredi Haredi Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations or for the progressive movements such as Masorti, Reform and Liberal Judaism.[1][2] As Chief Rabbi, Sacks formally carried the title of Av Beit Din (head) of the London London Beth Din [...More...]
picture info	Michael Oren Michael Bornstein Oren (Hebrew: מיכאל אורן; born Michael Scott Bornstein; May 20, 1955) is an American-born Israeli historian, author, politician, former ambassador to the United States (2009–2013), and current member of the Knesset Knesset for the Kulanu Kulanu party and Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Office.[3][4] Oren has written books, articles, and essays on Middle Eastern history, and is the author of the New York Times New York Times best-selling Power, Faith and Fantasy and Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East, which won the Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times History Book of the Year Award and the National Jewish Book Award [...More...]
picture info	Negev The Negev Negev (Hebrew: הַנֶּגֶב‬, Tiberian vocalization: han-Néḡeḇ ; Arabic: النقب‎ an-Naqab) is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel. The region's largest city and administrative capital is Beersheba Beersheba (pop. 205,810), in the north. At its southern end is the Gulf of Aqaba Gulf of Aqaba and the resort city of Eilat. It contains several development towns, including Dimona, Arad and Mitzpe Ramon, as well as a number of small Bedouin cities, including Rahat and Tel as-Sabi Tel as-Sabi and Lakyah [...More...]
picture info	Galilee Galilee Galilee (Hebrew: הגליל‎, transliteration HaGalil); Arabic: الجليل‎, translit [...More...]
picture info	Moshav Moshav Moshav (Hebrew: מוֹשָׁב‬, plural מוֹשָׁבִים‬ moshavim, lit. settlement, village) is a type of Israeli town or settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists during the second wave of aliyah. A resident or a member of a moshav can be called a "moshavnik" (מוֹשַׁבְנִיק‬). The moshavim are similar to kibbutzim with an emphasis on community labour. They were designed as part of the Zionist state-building programme following the green revolution Yishuv Yishuv ("settlement") in the British Mandate of Palestine British Mandate of Palestine during the early 20th century, but in contrast to the collective kibbutzim, farms in a moshav tended to be individually owned but of fixed and equal size [...More...]
picture info	Ruth Westheimer Ruth Westheimer Ruth Westheimer (born June 4, 1928), better known as Dr. Ruth, is a German-born, Jewish Jewish immigrant to the United States United States who became famous as a sex therapist, media personality, actress, voice actress, and author. Her media career began in 1980 with the radio show, Sexually Speaking, which continued until 1990. She also hosted at least five television shows on the Lifetime and other cable television from 1984 to 1993 [...More...]
picture info	Tel Aviv Museum Of Art The Tel Aviv Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Hebrew: מוזיאון תל אביב לאמנות‎ Muzeon Tel Aviv Tel Aviv Leomanut) is an art museum in Tel Aviv, Israel. It was established in 1932 in a building that was the home of Tel Aviv's first mayor, Meir Dizengoff. The Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art opened in 1959. The museum moved to its current location on King Saul Avenue in 1971 [...More...]