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On 29 November 1947 the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine, a plan to resolve the Arab-Jewish conflict in the British Mandate of Palestine, was approved by the United Nations General Assembly, at the UN World Headquarters in New York. The plan partitioned the territory into Jewish and Arab states, with the Greater Jerusalem area (encompassing Bethlehem) coming under international control. The failure of this plan led to the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. 1947 UN Partition Plan - Creation of the plan. The U ...

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• 1947 UN Partition Plan - Creation of the plan
• 1947 UN Partition Plan - Reactions to the plan
• 1947 UN Partition Plan - Text of the Resolution

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The 1949 Armistice Agreements are a set of agreements signed during 1949 between Israel and its neighbors Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. The agreements ended the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and established the armistice lines between Israel and the West Bank, also known as the Green Line, until the 1967 Six-Day War. 1949 Armistice Agreements - Agreements. 1949 Armistice Agreements - With Egypt. The agreement with Egypt was signed on February 24. The main poin ...

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• 1949 Armistice Agreements - Agreements
• 1949 Armistice Agreements - With Egypt
• 1949 Armistice Agreements - With Lebanon
• 1949 Armistice Agreements - With Jordan
• 1949 Armistice Agreements - With Syria
• 1949 Armistice Agreements - Others
• 1949 Armistice Agreements - Cease-fire line vs. permanent border
• 1949 Armistice Agreements - Violations
• 1949 Armistice Agreements - Arab-Israeli peace diplomacy and treaties
• 1949 Armistice Agreements - Texts

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The Oslo Accords, officially called the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements or Declaration of Principles (DOP), were finalized in Oslo, Norway on August 20, 1993, and subsequently officially signed at a public ceremony in Washington D.C. on September 13, 1993, with Yasser Arafat signing for the Palestine Liberation Organization and Shimon Peres signing for the State of Israel. It was witnessed by Warren Christopher for the United States and Andrei Kozyrev for Russia, in the presence of US President Bill Clinton and Israel's Prime Minister Y ...

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• Oslo Accords - Background
• Oslo Accords - Principles of the Accords
• Oslo Accords - Annexes of the accords
• Oslo Accords - Agreed minutes of the accords
• Oslo Accords - The acceptance of the accords by the two peoples
• Oslo Accords - Subsequent negotiations
• Oslo Accords - Oslo 2
• Oslo Accords - Additional agreements
• Oslo Accords - Fate of the accords
• Oslo Accords - Loss of credibility
• Oslo Accords - Arab-Israeli peace diplomacy and treaties
• Oslo Accords - Issues
• Oslo Accords - People

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The Arab-Israeli conflict is a long-running conflict in the Middle East concerning self-determination of the Jews in the Land of Israel and, after the establishment of the state of Israel, its relations with the Arab states and the Palestinian population (see Israeli-Palestinian conflict.) Some uses of the term Middle East conflict refer to this matter, but the region has been host to other disputes and wars not directly ...

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• Arab-Israeli conflict - History
• Arab-Israeli conflict - Reasons for the conflict
• Arab-Israeli conflict - Israeli views
• Arab-Israeli conflict - Palestinian and other Arab views
• Arab-Israeli conflict - Mutual claims
• Arab-Israeli conflict - Peace and reconciliation
• Arab-Israeli conflict - Quotations
• Arab-Israeli conflict - Abbreviated timeline

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Zionism is a political movement and an ideology that supports a Jewish homeland in the Land of Israel, where the Jewish nation originated and where Jewish kingdoms and self-governing states existed at various times in history. While Zionism is based heavily upon religious tradition linking the Jewish people to the Land of Israel, the modern movement was originally secular, beginning largely as a response to ram ...

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• Zionism - Establishment of the Zionist movement
• Zionism - Zionist initiatives
• Zionism - Jewish reaction to Zionism
• Zionism - Zionism and the Arab Muslims
• Zionism - The struggle for Palestine
• Zionism - Zionism and Israel
• Zionism - Anti-Zionism and post-Zionism
• Zionism - Non-Jewish Zionism
• Zionism - Relevant articles
• Zionism - Types of Zionism
• Zionism - Zionist institutes and organization
• Zionism - History of Zionism and Israel
• Zionism - Notes

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Yehuda Bauer (born 1926) is an historian and scholar of the Holocaust. He is a Professor of Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Yehuda Bauer - Biography. Born and raised in Prague, Czechoslovakia, young Yehuda Bauer acquired fluency in the Czech, Slovak and German languages. Later in life he learned Hebrew, Yiddish, English, French and Polish. His father had strong Zionist convictions and during the 1930s tried to raise money to get ...

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• Yehuda Bauer - Views
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• Yehuda Bauer - Bibliography

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The Vilna Gaon (April 23, 1720 – October 9, 1797) was a prominent Jewish rabbi, Talmud scholar, and Kabbalist. His real name was Elijah (Eliyahu) ben Shlomo Zalman Kremer (or Kramer), but he is commonly referred to in Hebrew as ha'Gaon ha'Chasid mi'Vilna, meaning "the saintly genius from Vilna", or in similar forms (Gaon of Vilna, Gaon mi Vilno, or Vilna Gaon), and as the Gra (a Hebrew acronym of "Gaon Rabbi Eliyahu"). Vilna Gaon - Youth and education. ...

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• Vilna Gaon - Methods of study
• Vilna Gaon - Antagonism to Hasidism
• Vilna Gaon - Other work
• Vilna Gaon - Ascetism
• Vilna Gaon - Works
• Vilna Gaon - Influence

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• World Zionist Organization - World Zionist Congress

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Settlers are people who have migrated from the land of their birth to live permanently colonies controlled militarily by their home country. In modern history, the word "settlers" is synonymous with terms like pioneers, colonists, or (as British people once called them) "colonials". It has been argued that all peoples are "settlers", since migration has featured throughout human history and prehistory. However, the word settler is generally used only ...

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Conversion to Judaism (Hebrew גיור, giur, "conversion") is the religious conversion of a previously non-Jewish person to the Jewish religion. The procedure for conversion depends on the sponsoring denomination, and hinges on meeting the ritual and substantive requirements for such conversion. A convert to Judaism is referred to as a ger tzedek (Hebrew: "righteous proselyte" or "proselyte [of] righteousness") or simply ger ("stranger" or "proselyte"). Conversion to Judaism - History. Including:

• Conversion to Judaism - History
• Conversion to Judaism - Motivations for conversion
• Conversion to Judaism - Traditional requirements
• Conversion to Judaism - Pre-Majority conversion
• Conversion to Judaism - Variations and controversy
• Conversion to Judaism - Consequences of conversion
• Conversion to Judaism - Place in religious life
• Conversion to Judaism - Jews by Choice

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The Biblical covenants could be subdivided into several sub-headings: The covenant with Abraham, found in Genesis 15, granting the Israelites a promised land in the Land of Israel. In this covenant, God Promises (See Genesis 12:1-3; Genesis 13:14-18; Genesis 15:1-21; Genesis 17:1-22): a) To make of Abraham into a great nation and to multiply his seed exceedingly and to make him a father of great many nations. b) To bless Abraham and make him great. c) To make Abraham a blessing to all the families of the earth. d) To ...

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Covenant , meaning a solemn contract, is the customary word used to translate the Hebrew word berith (ברית, Tiberian Hebrew bərîṯ, Standard Hebrew bərit) as it is used in the Hebrew Bible. The Biblical covenants could be subdivided into several sub-headings: The Noah Covenant, found in Genesis 8-9 completes the Noahide Laws and applies to the whole mankind. God forbids eating blood. forbids murder and adopts blood revenge. promises that he will never again destroy life on earth by flood.

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A chevra kadisha (Hebrew: holy society, better translated as "burial society") is a loosely structured but generally closed organization of Jewish men and women who see to it that the bodies of Jews are prepared for burial according to halacha (Jewish law) and are protected from desecration, willful or not, until burial. Two of the main requirements are the showing of proper respect for a corpse, and the ritual clea ...

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