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Much has been written about the split that occurred in Zionist ideology after the removal of the immediate existential threat in the Six Day War—a split that grew increasingly wide with the Yom Kippur…
In 1906, the Ahuzat Bayit (homestead) society was created in Jaffa by members of the Yishuv (the Jewish community of Palestine) as a planned “Hebrew” community, designed in accordance with the latest…
For many years, Amiram Erev worked as a photographer for Solel Boneh, the large Israeli construction company founded by the Histadrut, Israel’s General Federation of Labor. The company played a key…
Whatever happened to me on that day seemed to urge me to muster up all my courage and hope. When the ship approached the harbor of Jaffa, many people were there to meet us…
I, Shalom, the humble son of the honorable R. Joseph Alsheikh, God keep him and save him, wish to elucidate here the beginning of Yemenite settlement in Jerusalem, may it be built and established…
Jimmy’s body was taken to Har Tuv, where the doctor confirmed his death, and from Har Tuv it was taken to the morgue in the hospital in the convent of Abu Gosh. He lay there, covered with a gray…
Ruthka [checks the pile of clothes lying on the table]:You’ve given him enough clothes to last him for a year.Gita:When one of our members goes away for a while, I don’t want…
Conscious of the fact that our national work is of no value as long as there is no measurably large and measurably strong Hebrew workers party in the land of Israel, we have set ourselves the goal of…
All of a sudden, Grandmother’s empty burial plot is occupied. They finally returned mother to father’s side. One tree spreads its shadow over both their graves. Grandmother, too, finally gets what she…