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Declaration Of Establishment Of State Of Israel
The Israeli Declaration of Independence, formally the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel (), was proclaimed on 14 May 1948 (5 Iyar 5708), at the end of the civil war phase and beginning of the international phase of the 1948 Palestine war, by David Ben-Gurion, the Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization and Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Palestine. It declared the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine (or the Land of Israel in the Jewish tradition), to be known as the State of Israel, which would come into effect on termination of the British Mandate at midnight that day. The event is celebrated annually in Israel as Independence Day, a national holiday on 5 Iyar of every year according to the Hebrew calendar. Background The possibility of a Jewish homeland in Palestine had been a goal of Zionist organisations since the late 19th century. In 1917 British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour stated in a letter to British Jewish c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iyar
Iyar (Hebrew language, Hebrew: or , Hebrew language#Modern Hebrew, Standard ''ʾĪyyar'' Tiberian vocalization, Tiberian ''ʾĪyyār''; from "Rosette (design), rosette; blossom") is the eighth month of the civil year (which starts on 1 Tishrei) and the second month of the Jewish religious year (which starts on 1 Nisan) on the Hebrew calendar. The name is Babylonian in origin. It is a month of 29 days. Iyar usually falls in April–May on the Gregorian calendar. In the Hebrew Bible, before the Babylonian captivity, the month was called Ziv (, , ). Ziv (other), Ziv is a Hebrew language, Hebrew word that means "light" or "glow". Along with all other current, post-biblical Jewish month names, Iyar was adopted during the Babylonian captivity. In the Babylonian calendar its name was Araḫ Āru, which can be interpreted as "month of blossoming". Holidays Jewish holidays * 14 Iyar – Pesach Sheni * 18 Iyar – Lag BaOmer * Fast of Behav – see Cheshvan. It is observed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolf Gold
Rabbi Wolf Gold (; Ze'ev Gold, born Zev Krawczynski on May 2, 1889, died 8 April 1956) was a rabbi, Jewish activist, and one of the signers of the Israeli declaration of independence. Biography Born in Szczuczyn he was a descendant on his father's side from at least eight generations of rabbis. Gold's first teacher was his maternal grandfather, Rabbi Yehoshuah Goldwasser - a leader in Hovevei Zion. Later he studied at the Mir yeshiva under Rabbi Eliyahu Baruch Kamei. After that he studied in Lida at Yeshiva Torah Vo'Da'as, the yeshiva of Rabbi Yitzchak Yaacov Reines where Torah study was combined with secular studies. Gold was ordained as a rabbi at the age of 17 by Rabbi Eliezer Rabinowitz of Minsk, and succeeded his father-in-law, Rabbi Moshe Reichler, as rabbi in Juteka. At the age of 18 he moved to the United States, where he served as rabbi in several communities including South Chicago, Scranton, Pennsylvania (until 1912), Congregation Beth Jacob Ohev Sholom in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nahum Nir
Nahum Nir-Rafalkes (; 17 March 1884 – 10 July 1968) was a Zionist activist, Israeli politician and one of the signatories of the Israeli declaration of independence. He was the only Speaker of the Knesset not to have been a member of the ruling party until Benny Gantz in 2020. Biography Nir was born Nahum Rafalkes in Warsaw, then part of the Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about , roughl ..., in 1884.Nahum Nir Knesset He studied at a heder in the city before studying natural sciences at university in Warsaw, Zurich and St Petersburg. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golda Meir
Golda Meir (; 3 May 1898 – 8 December 1978) was the prime minister of Israel, serving from 1969 to 1974. She was Israel's first and only female head of government. Born into a Jewish family in Kyiv, Kiev, Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine), Meir immigrated with her family to the United States in 1906. She graduated from the Wisconsin State College of Milwaukee, Milwaukee State Normal School and found work as a teacher. While in Milwaukee, she embraced the Labor Zionist movement. In 1921, Meir and her husband Third Aliyah, immigrated to Mandatory Palestine, settling in Merhavia (kibbutz), Merhavia, later becoming the kibbutz's representative to the Histadrut. In 1934, she was elevated to the executive committee of the trade union. Meir held several key roles in the Jewish Agency for Israel, Jewish Agency during and after World War II. She was a signatory of the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948. Meir was elected to the Knesset in 1949 and served as Labor Minister of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zvi Luria
Zvi Lurie (; 1 June 1906 – 21 May 1968) was a Jewish political figure in Mandatory Palestine. A member of the Jewish National Council, he was amongst the signatories of the Israeli declaration of independence. Biography Zvi Lurie was born in Łódź in the Russian Empire (today in Poland). He immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1924. Lurie was a founder of kibbutz A kibbutz ( / , ; : kibbutzim / ) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1910, was Degania Alef, Degania. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economi ... Ein Shemer. Zionist and political activism Lurie was a member of Hashomer Hatzair, serving as its general secretary between 1935 and 1937. He was a member of the Jewish National Council on behalf of Hashomer Hatzair, and was co-opted into the Provisional State Council following Israel's declaration of independence in May 1948. He also helped establish Kol Yi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meir David Loewenstein
Meir David Loewenstein (; 1 June 1904 – 15 August 1995) was an Israeli politician and one of the signatories of the Israeli declaration of independence. Biography Born in Copenhagen in Denmark in 1904, Loewenstein studied at a business school in Switzerland and a rabbinical seminary in Amsterdam, Netherlands.Meir-David Levenstein Knesset During his youth he became involved in the European Agudat Yisrael youth movement, of which he later became chairman. After emigrating to in 1934, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yitzhak-Meir Levin
Yitzhak-Meir Levin (; 30 January 1893 – 7 August 1971) was a Haredi politician in Poland and Israel. One of 37 people to sign the Israeli declaration of independence, he served in several Israeli cabinets and was a longtime leader and Knesset minister for Agudat Yisrael and related parties. Biography Born Izaak Meir Lewin in Góra Kalwaria (known as ''Ger'' in Yiddish) in the Congress Poland part of the Russian Empire,Yitzhak-Meir Levin Knesset Levin was a paternal descendant of Chanokh Heynekh Levin (1789–1870). In his early years he studied at and received [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moshe Kol
Moshe Kol (; 28 May 1911 – 7 July 1989) was a Zionist activist and Israeli politician and one of the signatories of the Israeli declaration of independence. Biography Born Moshe Kolodny in Pinsk in the Russian Empire (today in Belarus),Moshe Kol Knesset Kol studied at a heder and Hebrew high school in his home town and was one of the founders of HaOved HaTzioni youth movement in . He emigrated to |
Saadia Kobashi
Saadia Kobashi (; , 1902–24 January 1990) was a leader of the Yemenite Jewish community in Israel, and one of the signatories of the country's declaration of independence. Biography Saadia Qobshi was born in the village of Shahel in the Al-Sharaf region of Yemen on a Wednesday in Sivan 1902. At the age of four, his family relocated to the village of Al-Mahhabsha, in the same region. His father, Yahya, was a prominent leader in the local Jewish community and worked as a butcher and mohel. His mother passed away when he was a child, prior to the family's immigration to the Land of Israel. During Passover, several families from the village decided to immigrate to the Land of Israel. On the day of Shavuot in 1909, the caravan set out on its journey, traveling on donkeys and camels under the guidance of a Muslim escort. The group camped in the town of Midi, on the eastern shore of the Red Sea, where the local Muslim residents provided for their needs until they secured passage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avraham Katznelson
Avraham Katznelson (; 1888 – 18 May 1956), later known as Avraham Nissan, was a physician and Zionist political figure in Mandate Palestine. He was a signatory of the Israeli Declaration of Independence. Biography Katznelson was born in Bobruisk in the Russian Empire (now in Belarus) to Nissan HaCohen and Zelda Helena (née Rozovsky). He was the brother of Yosef, Reuven (father of Justice Minister Shmuel Tamir), Shmuel and Rachel Katznelson (the wife of president Zalman Shazar). He studied in a heder and gymnasium and later attended the Jewish Studies Academy in Saint Petersburg as well as Saint Petersburg University and Moscow University.Martin Gilbert (1973). ''Sir Horace Rumbold; Portrait of a Diplomat: 1869-1941'', , p. 416. He also studied at the Academy of Social Hygiene in Berlin. In 1912 he earned a doctorate in Natural Sciences and in 1914 he qualified as a physician. During World War I he served as a military doctor in the Imperial Russian Army. From 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eliezer Kaplan
Eliezer Kaplan (; ; 27 January 1891 – 13 July 1952) was a Zionism, Zionist activist, Israeli politician, one of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence (Israel), Israeli declaration of independence and the country's first Finance Minister of Israel, Minister of Finance and Deputy leaders of Israel#Deputy Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister. Biography Born in Minsk in the Russian Empire (today in Belarus), Kaplan attended a heder and high school in Łowicz.Eliezer Kaplan Knesset He joined the Socialist Zionist Party in 1905, and was one of the founders of the ''Youth of Zion – Renewal'' movement in 1908, later being elected secretary of its Minsk Region branch in 1912. He also helped found the ''Youth of Zion'' movement in Russia in 1912 and was a member of its central committee. In 1917 he graduated f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalman Kahana
Kalman Kahana (; 31 May 1910 – 20 August 1991) was a long-serving Israeli politician and journalist, and a signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence. He was the brother of Yitzhak Kahan, a President of the Supreme Court of Israel. Background Kalman was born in Brody in Galicia, an area of the Austro-Hungarian Empire now in modern-day Ukraine.Kalman Kahana Knesset He studied philosophy, semitic languages, history and pedagogy at Berlin University and Würzburg University, eventually gaining a PhD in philosophy. He also graduated as a |
