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Giv'at Shmuel
Giv'at Shmuel () is a city in the Central District (Israel), Center District of Israel. It is located in the eastern part of the Gush Dan, Gush Dan metropolitan area and bordered by Ramat Gan and Bnei Brak to the West, Kiryat Ono to the South and Petah Tikva to the East and North. In it had a population of . History Giv'at Shmuel was founded in 1944. It was named for the Romanians, Romanian Zionism, Zionist leader Samuel Pineles, founder and president of the 1881 Focșani Zionist Congress, Zionist Congress in Focșani and Vice-President of the First Zionist Congress in Basel. On November 5, 2007, the Ministry of Interior (Israel), Israeli Minister of Interior accepted a committee recommendation to change the municipal status of Giv'at Shmuel to 'city'. Demographics At the end of 2019, the population of Givat Shmuel numbered 26,578 with a growth rate of 2.1%, and with the building of new neighborhoods is planned to grow to 40,000. Demographics are mixed religious/secular, with a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Cities In Israel
This article lists the 73 localities in Israel that the Ministry of Interior (Israel), Israeli Ministry of Interior has designated as a City council (Israel), city council. It excludes the 4 List of Israeli settlements with city status in the West Bank, Israeli settlements in the West Bank designated as cities, but Israeli occupation of the West Bank, occupied East Jerusalem is included within Jerusalem. The list is based on the current index of the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Within Local government in Israel, Israel's system of local government, an urban municipality can be granted a city council by the Interior Ministry when its population exceeds 20,000. The term "city" does not generally refer to Local council (Israel), local councils or urban agglomerations, even though a defined city often contains only a small portion of an urban area or metropolitan area's population. List As for 2022, Israel has 18 cities with populations over 100,000, including Jeru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romanians
Romanians (, ; dated Endonym and exonym, exonym ''Vlachs'') are a Romance languages, Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation native to Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Sharing a Culture of Romania, common culture and Cultural heritage, ancestry, they speak the Romanian language and live primarily in Romania and Moldova. The 2021 Romanian census found that 89.3% of Romania's citizens identified themselves as ethnic Romanians. In one interpretation of the 1989 census results in Moldova, the majority of Moldovans were counted as ethnic Romanians as well.''Ethnic Groups Worldwide: A Ready Reference Handbook By'' David Levinson (author), David Levinson, Published 1998 – Greenwood Publishing Group.At the time of the 1989 census, Moldova's total population was 4,335,400. The largest nationality in the republic, ethnic Romanians, numbered 2,795,000 persons, accounting for 64.5 percent of the population. Source U.S. Library of Congres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ligat HaAl (basketball)
Ligat HaAl (, lit., ''Supreme League or Premier League''), or the Israeli Basketball Premier League, is a professional basketball league in Israel and the highest level of basketball in the country. The league's name is abbreviated as either BSL (Basketball Super League) or ISBL (Israeli Basketball Super League). For sponsorship reasons, the league is also referred to as Ligat Winner Sal (), lit. ''Winner Basket League'', with "Winner" being the name of a game operated by the league's primary sponsor, Toto Winner. The league is run by the Israeli Basketball Super League Administration Ltd. Overview Ligat HaAl comprises the top 12 basketball clubs in Israel, and was founded in 1954. The league itself is most known in Europe, due to the success of the Israeli teams in European-wide competitions, such as the EuroLeague, EuroCup (formerly called the ULEB Cup), and FIBA's EuroChallenge (formerly called the FIBA EuroCup). Many non-drafted and free agent players from Europe and the N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maccabi Habik'a
Elitzur Giv'at Shmuel () is a basketball club, originally from Giv'at Shmuel in Israel. The club plays in the Liga Artzit (basketball), Liga Artzit, the third division of Israeli basketball. It played in the Israeli Basketball Premier League as recently as the 2008–2009 season. The home hall of the club was the Leader Arena (1,400 seats) in Ganei Tikva. Notable players - Set a club record or won an individual award as a professional player. - Played at least one official international match for his senior national team at any time. * Dror Cohen * Shimon Amsalem *David Bernsley (born 1969), American-Israeli basketball player * Paul Delaney (basketball), Paul Delaney (born 1986) See also *:Maccabi Givat Shmuel players References Maccabi basketball clubs Basketball teams in Israel {{Israel-basketball-team-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bar Ilan University
Bar-Ilan University (BIU, , ''Universitat Bar-Ilan'') is a public research university in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel. Established in 1955, Bar Ilan is Israel's second-largest academic university institution. It has 20,000 students and 1,350 faculty members. Bar-Ilan's mission is to "blend Jewish tradition with modern technologies and scholarship and the university endeavors to ... teach the Jewish heritage to all its students while providing nacademic education." The university is among the best in the Middle East in the fields of computer science, engineering, engineering physics and applied physics. In 2024, the university was donated $260 million, one of the biggest donations to a university in Israeli history. History Bar-Ilan University has Jewish-American roots: It was conceived in Atlanta in a meeting of the American Mizrahi organization in 1950, and was founded by Professor Pinkhos Churgin, an American Orthodox rabbi and educator, who was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bagrut
Te'udat Bagrut (, ''lit.'' "graduation certificate", Arabic: شهادة بجروت) is a certificate that attests that a student has successfully passed Israel's high school matriculation examination. Bagrut is a prerequisite for higher education in Israel. Overview A Bagrut certificate is awarded by the Ministry of Education (Israel), Israeli Ministry of Education to students who pass the ministry's required written (and in some cases oral) subject-matter examinations with a passing mark (55% or higher) in each exam. The Bagrut certificate however should not be confused with a high school diploma (''te'udat g'mar tichon'', ، Arabic: شهادة انهاء الثانويّة), which is a certificate awarded by the Ministry of Education attesting that a student has completed 12 years of study. Bagrut scores are one of the criteria examined in applications to elite military units and Israeli academic institutions. Other criteria include students' high school grades and the Psychomet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nefesh B'Nefesh
Nefesh B'Nefesh (), or Jewish Souls United, is a nonprofit organization that promotes, encourages, and facilitates aliyah (Jewish immigration to Israel) from the United States and Canada. The organization aims to remove or minimize the financial, professional, logistical, and social obstacles that potential ''olim'' (Jewish immigrants) face. Nefesh B'Nefesh works in close cooperation with the Jewish Agency for Israel, the Government of Israel and major Jewish organizations across various denominations, and assists people of all ages in the pre- and post-aliyah process, offering resources such as employment guidance and networking, assistance navigating the Israeli system, social guidance and counseling. Since 2002, Nefesh B'Nefesh has brought over 80,000 ''olim'' to Israel. In 2011 Nefesh B'Nefesh co-founder Rabbi Yehoshua Fass received the Moskowitz Prize for Zionism on behalf of the organization. History Nefesh B'Nefesh was originally conceived by Rabbi Yehoshua Fass after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel Central Bureau Of Statistics
The Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (, ''HaLishka HaMerkazit LiStatistika''; ), abbreviated CBS, is an Israeli government office established in 1949 to carry out research and publish statistical data on all aspects of Israeli life, including population, society, economy, industry, education, and physical infrastructure. The CBS is headquartered in the Givat Shaul neighborhood of Jerusalem, with another branch in Tel Aviv. Overview The CBS is headed by the National Statistician (previously named Government Statistician), who is appointed on the recommendation of the prime minister. Professor Emeritus Danny Pfefferman of Hebrew University has served in that position and as Director of the CBS since 2013. The bureau's annual budget in 2011 was NIS 237 million. The work of the CBS follows internationally accepted standards which enable comparison of statistical information with other countries. It gathers current, monthly, quarterly and annually data on the national e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Interior (Israel)
The Ministry of Interior (, ''Misrad HaPnim''; ) in the State of Israel is one of the Cabinet of Israel, government offices that is responsible for Local government#Israel, local government, Israeli nationality law, citizenship and Permanent residency, residency, Israeli identity card, identity cards, and student and Visa policy of Israel, entry visas. The current Minister is Moshe Arbel. Responsibilities * Providing Israeli nationality law, citizenship and permanent resident status. * Issuing of Visa policy of Israel, entry visas and staying visas in the country. * Inhabitants administration: personal registration ** Issuing of Israeli identity cards. ** Issuing of Israeli passports. ** Personal registrations such as birth, Marriage in Israel, marriage etc. * Local government, city councils and local council (Israel), local councils supervision ** Appointing and dismissing Districts of Israel, District Commissioners * Elections in Israel, Elections * Associations * Planning and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basel
Basel ( ; ), also known as Basle ( ), ; ; ; . is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine (at the transition from the High Rhine, High to the Upper Rhine). Basel is Switzerland's List of cities in Switzerland, third-most-populous city (after Zurich and Geneva), with 177,595 inhabitants within the city municipality limits. The official language of Basel is Swiss Standard German and the main spoken language is the local Basel German dialect. Basel is commonly considered to be the cultural capital of Switzerland and the city is famous for its many Museums in Basel, museums, including the Kunstmuseum Basel, Kunstmuseum, which is the first collection of art accessible to the public in the world (1661) and the largest museum of Swiss art, art in Switzerland, the Fondation Beyeler (located in Riehen), the Museum Tinguely and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Basel), Museum of Contemporary Art, which is the first public museum of contemporary art in Europe. Forty museums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Zionist Congress
The First Zionist Congress () was the inaugural congress of the Zionist Organization, Zionist Organization (ZO) held in the Stadtcasino Basel in the city of Basel on August 29–31, 1897. Two hundred and eight delegates from 17 countries and 26 press correspondents attended the event. It was convened and chairperson, chaired by Theodor Herzl, the founder of the modern Zionism movement. The Congress formulated a Zionist platform, known as the Basel Program, Basel program, and founded the Zionist Organization. The conference was covered by the international press, making a significant impression. History The first Zionist Congress was convened by Theodor Herzl as a symbolic parliament for the small minority of Jews, Jewry in agreement with the implementation of Zionism, Zionist goals. While Jewish majority indifference or opposition to Zionism would continue until after revelation of the Holocaust in World War II, some proponents point to several directions and streams of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Focșani
Focșani (; ) is the capital city of Vrancea County in Romania on the banks the river Milcov, in the historical region of Moldavia. , it has a population of 66,719. Geography Focșani lies at the foot of the Curvature Carpathians, at a point of convergence for tectonic geologic faults, which raises the risk of earthquakes in the vicinity. Though Vrancea County is one of the most popular wine-producing regions in Romania, Odobești being just to the northwest, in Romania, Focșani itself is not considered a wine-producing center. The wine sold as ''Weisse von Fokshan'' in Germany and some other European countries is generally a ''Fetească Albă de Odobești'' wine, and practically a second-rated wine which does not comply to the European Union rules of naming the regions of origin of wines. The vicinity is rich in minerals such as iron, copper, coal, and petroleum. The city administers two villages, Mândrești-Moldova and Mândrești-Munteni. Focșani lies within the strate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
