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On the shores of the Sea of Galilee
Lies a palace of great majesty.
There God’s garden is planted,
But not a single tree sways.
Silence; no wave is heard,
Above, every flying bird
Is still and…
Contributor:
Jacob Fichman
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Tel Aviv, Ottoman Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1917
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Itzhak Refael once warned his colleagues on the Jewish Agency Executive that if they insisted on “regulating” the immigration quotas only the immigration from North Africa would remain for it could…
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Tom Segev
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1984
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In early winter 1998, I set out to discover my country, the Holy Land. My pilgrimage was an attempt at religious empathy: I was hoping to encounter, as an Israeli Jew, my Christian and Muslim…
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Yossi Klein Halevi
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
2001
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In the living quarters of the [North] African [Jews] in the transit camps, here’s what you’ll find: you’ll find filth, card games, and money, drunkenness, and whoring. Many of them are afflicted with…
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Aryeh Gelblum
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1949
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With the first morning light I got up and looked out on the landscape of the Jerusalem Hills. I looked toward the nearby border. One of my relatives told me how the well in our house…
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Salman Shina
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1955
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The Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East was established in 1948 with the aid of three bodies: the General…
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Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
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1949
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We must emphasize the impact Jews are having on the town of Jaffa. Those who knew Jaffa in the past can testify that the town owes a lot to the Jews; its appearance has changed dramatically over the…
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Ze’ev Smilansky
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Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine (Jaffa, Israel)
Date:
1906
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For many years we have awaited your arrival on our soil. We waited, as we believed that your arrival fulfills our eminent, longing of millennia. To our great pleasure, the joyous day has arrived…
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Ben-Zion Hai Uziel
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Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine (Jaffa, Israel)
Date:
1919
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It is with a feeling of deep reverence and consecration that I rise to open the Constituent Assembly of the State of Israel, the first Knesset Israel of our time in this eternal…
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Chaim Weizmann
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1949
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The man of letters who cares about his links with the people—who is of the opinion that there is no backbone to his literary production except when his social source is present, typified by the…
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Sami Michael
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1954