Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel staged one of the most dramatic moves in the history of yeshivot. In the 1920s he decided to create a branch of his yeshiva in the British Mandate of Palestine, together with the dean Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein, setting it up in Hebron and sending waves of hand-picked students there, culminating with his own permanent aliyah, "going up", to the Holy Land two years before his passing. In Palestine he founded his own institution in the town of Hebron called Knesses Yisroel - "Gathering of Israel", which moved to Jerusalem following the massacre of Jews during the 1929 Hebron mass ...

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Nosson Zvi Finkel, Nosson Zvi Finkel - Early years, Nosson Zvi Finkel - Philosophical approach, Nosson Zvi Finkel - Opposition, Nosson Zvi Finkel - Land of Israel, Nosson Zvi Finkel - Influence

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The Tanakh (or Hebrew Bible referred to also as the "Old Testament" by Christians) contains several descriptions of the borders of the land.[1] These descriptions encompass a region that extends from the "River of Egypt"[2] to the Euphrates. Areas known to be included are the modern state of Israel, the Palestinian territories, and much of modern-day Syria ...

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Land of Israel, Land of Israel - The Promised Land, Land of Israel - Dimensions of the Land of Israel, Land of Israel - From Dan to Beersheba, Land of Israel - The Land of Israel and the State of Israel, Land of Israel - The Land of Israel in Jewish law, Land of Israel - Notes

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Israeli-occupied territories - The Sinai Peninsula. The Sinai Peninsula is a sparsely populated territory between the Suez Canal and the Gulf of Aqaba. Israel first captured the Sinai, along with the Gaza Strip, during the 1956 Suez Campaign. Israel's invasion of the Sinai was coordinated with France and the United Kingdom's seizure of the Suez Canal. Pressure from the Soviet Union and the United States ...

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Israeli-occupied territories, Israeli-occupied territories - Specific territories, Israeli-occupied territories - The Sinai Peninsula, Israeli-occupied territories - The West Bank and the Gaza Strip, Israeli-occupied territories - East Jerusalem, Israeli-occupied territories - The Golan Heights, Israeli-occupied territories - Applicability of the term occupied, Israeli-occupied territories - Palestinians and Israeli law

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The Camp David Accords were signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on September 17, 1978, following twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David. The two agreements were signed at the White House, and were witnessed by United States President Jimmy Carter. Sadat also said he wanted them to be called the Carter Accords. Camp David Accords 1978 - Background. Upon assuming office on January 20, 1977, President Carter moved to rejuvenate the Middle Eastern ...

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• Camp David Accords 1978 - Background
• Camp David Accords 1978 - The Sadat Peace Initiative
• Camp David Accords 1978 - The talks
• Camp David Accords 1978 - Terms of the agreements
• Camp David Accords 1978 - Consequences
• Camp David Accords 1978 - Related articles
• Camp David Accords 1978 - Arab-Israeli peace diplomacy and treaties

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Kabbalah (Hebrew קַבָּלָה "reception", Standard Hebrew Qabbala, Tiberian Hebrew Qabbālāh; also written variously as Cabala, Cabalah, Cabbala, Cabbalah, Kabala, Kabalah, Kabbala, Qabala, Qabalah, Kaballah) is an interpretation (exegesis, hermeneutic) key, "soul" of the Torah (Hebrew Bible), or the religious mystical system of Judaism claiming an insight into divine nature. Kabbalah is a doctrine of esoteric knowledge concerning God, God's creation of the universe and the laws of nature, and the path by whic ...

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• Kabbalah - Origin of Jewish mysticism
• Kabbalah - Mystic doctrines in Talmudic times
• Kabbalah - Kabbalah of the early Middle Ages
• Kabbalah - Lurianic Kabbalah in the Middle Ages
• Kabbalah - Kabbalah of the Sefardim and Mizrahim
• Kabbalah - Kabbalah of the Maharal
• Kabbalah - The failure of Sabbatian mysticism
• Kabbalah - Spread of Kabbalah during the 1700s
• Kabbalah - The modern world
• Kabbalah - Primary texts
• Kabbalah - Theodicy: explanation for the existence of evil
• Kabbalah - Kabbalistic understanding of God
• Kabbalah - Sefirot
• Kabbalah - A Greek Orthodox theological view
• Kabbalah - The human soul in Kabbalah
• Kabbalah - Foretelling the future
• Kabbalah - Practical applications
• Kabbalah - Textual antiquity of esoteric mysticism
• Kabbalah - Gnosticism and Kabbalah
• Kabbalah - Criticisms
• Kabbalah - Dualism
• Kabbalah - Debate about Kabbalah in Judaism
• Kabbalah - Early critiques
• Kabbalah - Within Conservative and Reform Judaism
• Kabbalah - Kabbalah Centre
• Kabbalah - Kabbalah in non-Jewish society
• Kabbalah - Hermetic Kabbalah
• Kabbalah - Fictional representations
• Kabbalah - Kabbalah personalities
• Kabbalah - Footnotes

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Bi-national claims to the same lands have been made, based on exacerbated political and ethnic distinctions. While a neutral observer may view these distinctions as minor, the conflict is in fact an ethnic one, with claims to sovereignty and divinity embellishing the underlying political and territorial issues. This article discusses both Israeli and Arab claims. Palestinian territories - Israeli claims. Israeli claims to the territories are based primarily on four arguments (though there are others). The ...

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Palestinian territories, Palestinian territories - Terminology, Palestinian territories - Meanings of the term, Palestinian territories - Claims, Palestinian territories - Israeli claims, Palestinian territories - Palestinian claims, Palestinian territories - Points not in dispute, Palestinian territories - Historical status of West Bank and Gaza Strip, Palestinian territories - Legal Status of the territories

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There has been growing debate in Israel on the character of the state, if it should enshrine more Jewish culture, encourage Judaism in schools, enshrine certain laws of Kashrut and Sabbath observance within Israel. This debate reflects a historical divide within Zionism and among the Jewish citizens of Israel, which has large secular and Orthodox Judaism minorities, and a majority who lie somewhere between the two. Zionism is rooted in a concept of the Jews as a nation. Some Jews believe the Jewish religion to be central to Jewish nat ...

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Jewish state, Jewish state - Jewish state or a state of Jews?, Jewish state - A Jewish commonwealth, Jewish state - Criticism

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Bi-national claims to the same lands have been made, based on exacerbated political and ethnic distinctions. While a neutral observer may view these distinctions as minor, the conflict is in fact an ethnic one, with claims to sovereignty and divinity embellishing the underlying political and territorial issues. This article discusses both Israeli and Arab claims. Palestinian territories - Israeli claims. Israeli claims to the territories are based primarily on four arguments (though there are others ...

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Palestinian territories, Palestinian territories - Historical status of West Bank and Gaza Strip, Palestinian territories - Terminology, Palestinian territories - Meanings of the term, Palestinian territories - Claims, Palestinian territories - Israeli claims, Palestinian territories - Palestinian claims, Palestinian territories - Points not in dispute, Palestinian territories - Legal Status of the territories

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Land of Israel Districts · Cities · Transportation Dead Sea · Red Sea · Sea of Galilee Mediterranean · Negev · Judea · Samaria Jerusalem · Tel Aviv · Haifa Zionism · Timeline ·Aliyah · Herzl Balfour · Mandate · 1947 UN Plan Independence · Austerity · Ma'abarot Lavon Affair · Eichmann Trial 1948 War · 1949 Armistice · Suez War Six-Day War · Attrition War Yom Kippur War · Lebanon War Peace treaties with: Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan Timeline · Peace process · Peace camp 1st Intifad ...

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• Culture of Israel - Background
• Culture of Israel - Artist colonies
• Culture of Israel - Poetry and literature
• Culture of Israel - Noted poets
• Culture of Israel - Prose authors
• Culture of Israel - Fine Arts
• Culture of Israel - Museums
• Culture of Israel - Jerusalem
• Culture of Israel - Tel Aviv
• Culture of Israel - Haifa
• Culture of Israel - Music
• Culture of Israel - Film and theatre
• Culture of Israel - Repertory theater companies
• Culture of Israel - Filmmakers
• Culture of Israel - Playwrights
• Culture of Israel - Actors
• Culture of Israel - Comedy and satire
• Culture of Israel - Animal rights in Israel

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Jaffa - Name sources. Jaffa (or Yaffo) is one of the most ancient port cities in the world. Some claim that Jaffa was named after Japheth, one of the three sons of Noah, who built it after the Great Flood. A Hebrew etymology indicates that the city is called Jaffa because of its beauty (yofi in Hebrew). The Hellenist tradition links the name to "Iopeia", which is Cassiopeia, the mother of Andromeda. However the Hellenist accounting for the name dates from hundreds of years after the original naming. < ...

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Jaffa, Jaffa - History, Jaffa - Name sources, Jaffa - Ancient period, Jaffa - Medieval period, Jaffa - The Ottoman period, Jaffa - Under the British mandate, Jaffa - The 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Jaffa - Modern Jaffa, Jaffa - Restoration of the Old City, Jaffa - Jaffa Beyond the Old City, Jaffa - Places to see, Jaffa - Footnotes

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Jew - Jews and migrations. Throughout Jewish history, Jews have repeatedly been directly or indirectly expelled from both their original homeland, and the areas in which they have resided. This experience as both immigrants and emigrants (see: Jewish refugees) have shaped Jewish identity and religious practice in many ways. An incomplete list of such migrations includes: The patriarch Abraham was a migrant to the land of Canaan from Ur of the Chaldees. The Children of Israel experienced the ...

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Jew, Jew - Usage note, Jew - Etymology, Jew - Who is a Jew?, Jew - Jewish culture, Jew - Ethnic divisions, Jew - Population, Jew - Significant geographic populations, Jew - State of Israel, Jew - Diaspora outside Israel, Jew - Population changes: Assimilation, Jew - Population changes: Wars against the Jews, Jew - Population changes: Growth, Jew - Jewish languages, Jew - History of the Jews, Jew - Jews and migrations, Jew - Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, Jew - Persian Greek and Roman rule, Jew - Beginning of the Diaspora, Jew - Middle Ages: Europe, Jew - Middle Ages: Islamic Europe and North Africa, Jew - Enlightenment and emancipation, Jew - Zionism and immigration, Jew - The Holocaust, Jew - Israel, Jew - Persecution, Jew - Jewish leadership, Jew - Famous Jews, Jew - Notes

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Rafael Eitan - Early battles. Eitan was a junior officer in the elite Palmach strike force and took part in the Israel's War of Independence. He fought in Jerusalem and received a head wound in the battle for the San Simon Monastery in April 1948. Later he served with the 10th Infantry Battalion in the Lachish-Negev region. In 1954, Captain Eitan became commander of a Paratroops company in Unit 101. During Operation Kinereth in 1955 he received a machinegun wound to his chest, wh ...

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Rafael Eitan, Rafael Eitan - Military career, Rafael Eitan - Early battles, Rafael Eitan - Chief of Staff, Rafael Eitan - Lebanon War, Rafael Eitan - Political career, Rafael Eitan - Death, Rafael Eitan - Books

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The Balfour Declaration was a letter dated November 2, 1917 from British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour on behalf of the British government, to Lord Rothschild (Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild), a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation, a private Zionist organization. The letter stated the position agreed on at a British Cabinet meeting on October 31, 1917, that the British government supported Zionist plans for a "national home" in Palestine for the Jewish people, and, most ...

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• Balfour Declaration 1917 - Text of the declaration
• Balfour Declaration 1917 - Development
• Balfour Declaration 1917 - Negotiation
• Balfour Declaration 1917 - Footnotes

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Israel Azriel Hildesheimer was a German rabbi, and leader of Orthodox Judaism. He is regarded as a pioneering "Moderniser" of Orthodox Judaism in Germany and is sometimes regarded as a founder of Modern Orthodox Judaism. Azriel Hildesheimer - Biography. Hildesheimer was born in Hildesheim, a small town near Hanover, Germany (Some believe he was born in Halberstadt) May 20, 1820; he was the son of Rabbi Löb Glee Hildesheimer. He attended the "Hasharat Zwi" school in Halberstadt, and, from age sevente ...

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• Azriel Hildesheimer - Biography
• Azriel Hildesheimer - Modernisation within Orthodoxy
• Azriel Hildesheimer - Comparison with Samson Raphael Hirsch
• Azriel Hildesheimer - Orthodox Opposition
• Azriel Hildesheimer - Writings

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Aliyah (Hebrew: עלייה; "ascent") is a term widely used to mean Jewish immigration to the Land of Israel (and since its establishment in 1948, the State of Israel). The opposite action, Jewish emigration away from Israel, is called Yerida ("descent"). Land of Israel Districts · Cities · Transportation Dead Sea · Red Sea · Sea of Galilee Mediterranean · Negev · Judea · Samaria Jerusalem · Tel Aviv · Haifa Zio ...

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• Aliyah - Aliyot
• Aliyah - First Aliyah 1882-1903
• Aliyah - Second Aliyah 1904-1914
• Aliyah - Third Aliyah 1919-1923
• Aliyah - Fourth Aliyah 1924-1929
• Aliyah - Fifth Aliyah 1929-1939
• Aliyah - Aliyah Bet: Illegal immigration 1933-1948
• Aliyah - Immigration from 1948-1950
• Aliyah - Middle Eastern Jews
• Aliyah - Ethiopian Aliyah
• Aliyah - Russian Aliyah
• Aliyah - Argentine aliyah
• Aliyah - Recent Trends
• Aliyah - Trivia
• Aliyah - Notes

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Land of Israel Districts · Cities · Transportation Dead Sea · Red Sea · Sea of Galilee Mediterranean · Negev · Judea · Samaria Jerusalem · Tel Aviv · Haifa Zionism · Timeline ·Aliyah · Herzl Balfour · Mandate · 1947 UN Plan Independence · Austerity · Ma'abarot Lavon Affair · Eichmann Trial 1948 War · 1949 Armistice · Suez War Six-Day War · Attrition War Yom Kippur War · Lebanon War Peace treaties with: Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan Timeline · Peace process · Peace camp 1st Inti ...

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• Basic Laws of Israel - List of Basic Laws of Israel

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A beth din (בית דין, Hebrew: "house of judgment", plural battei din) is a rabbinical court of Judaism. In ancient times, it was the building block of the legal system in the Land of Israel. Today, it is invested with legal powers in a number of religious matters, both in Israel and in Jewish communities throughout the world, where their judgments hold varying degrees of authority (depending upon the jurisdiction and subject matter) in matters specifically germane to Jewish religious life. Beth din - Antiquit ...

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• Beth din - Antiquity
• Beth din - Present situation
• Beth din - Officers of a Beth Din

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Obadiah ben Abraham of Bertinoro was a Jewish rabbi and a commentator on the Mishnah, commonly known as "The Bartenura" by Orthodox Judaism Talmud scholars. He lived in the second half of the fifteenth century in Italy; died in Jerusalem about 1500. He was a pupil of Joseph ben Solomon Colon (known as the Maharik), and became rabbi in Bertinoro, a town in the province ...

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• Obadiah ben Abraham - Arrival in the land of Israel
• Obadiah ben Abraham - Influence in Palestine
• Obadiah ben Abraham - Literary Activity

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Avraham Shlonsky (1900 - 1973), Hebrew אברהם שלונסקי, was an Israeli poet born in Ukraine. He was important in the poetry of modern Hebrew, influencing literature in Israel in the fields of translation, editing, and drama. He made his reputation as an innovator in the Hebrew language. He earned the nickname "Lashonsky" from the wisecrackers of his generation because lashon means "language". Avraham Shlonsky - Life. When he was 13, he was sent to Israel to study at the prestigious H ...

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• Avraham Shlonsky - Life
• Avraham Shlonsky - Works
• Avraham Shlonsky - Selected puns attributed
• Avraham Shlonsky - Selected coinages attributed

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Bnei Brak (or Bene Beraq) (Hebrew: בְּנֵי בְּרַק Bəne Bəraq "Sons of Lightning") is a city in Israel, on the central coastal strip, just east of Tel Aviv, and part of the metropolis known as Gush Dan, the Tel Aviv District. Bnei Brak - Population. It has about 160,000 residents, most of whom are Haredi Jews. It also has the largest population density of any city in Israel, with 19,498 persons per sq. km. (56,283 per sq. mile). It ...

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• Bnei Brak - Population
• Bnei Brak - History and name
• Bnei Brak - Historical Bnei Brak

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