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2 unusual facts about Land of Israel


Land of Israel

Following the Six Day War in 1967, the 1977 elections and the Oslo Accords, the term Eretz Israel became increasingly associated with right-wing expansionist groups who sought to conform the borders of the State of Israel with the biblical Eretz Yisrael.

Samuel Klein

Samuel Klein (scholar) (1886–1940), historian and geography researcher of the Land of Israel


Bnei Bathyra

A hundred year before the Destruction of the Second Temple, the family's sages have passed the torch of the Jewish leadership to Hillel the Elder, that made Aliya to the Land of Israel from Babylon and had studied at Sh'maya and Abtalion.

Keren Hayesod

The resolution adopted called on "the whole Jewish people", Zionists and non-Zionists alike to contribute toward the building of the Land of Israel through Keren Hayesod.

Moshe Smilansky

Smilansky also published in Hebrew periodicals in Ereẓ Israel, where he was one of the first contributors (writing under the pen name "Heruti") to the journal of Ha-Po'el ha-Tsa'ir and a co-founder of Ha-Omer together with David Yellin and S. Ben Zion (Simha Alter Guttman).

Nolin Map

The Land of Israel appears at the center of the map, the Mediterranean Sea at its top left side, the Dead Sea at its right, and a small map of the old city of Jerusalem at its bottom right - with illustrations of the old city's streets and the Temple Mount.

Oil-tree

It was probably the oleaster (Elaeagnus angustifolia), which grows abundantly in almost all parts of the Land of Israel, especially about Hebron and Samaria.

Targum Jonathan

Its early origins, however, are western i.e. from the Land of Israel, and the Talmudic tradition attributes its authorship to Jonathan ben Uzziel.

The Book of Ruth: Journey of Faith

A biblical Cinderella story seen through the eyes of a young widow as she leaves her homeland to Israel in search of a better life.


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Aliyah and yishuv during World War I

The Ottoman authorities also deported the leaders of the Jewish population in the Land of Israel—David Ben-Gurion and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi were deported from the empire in spite of the Zionist leadership officially declaring their support to the Ottoman empire.

Bank Hapoalim

The bank was established in 1921 by the Histadrut the Israeli trade union congress (lit. "General Federation of Laborers in the Land of Israel") and the World Zionist Organization.

Dovev

It was named after David Bloch-Blumenfeld (Dovev is an acronym of his initials), one of the leaders of the Labor Movement in the land of Israel, who was a mayor of Tel Aviv.

Ezekiel

In Judaism and Christianity, he is also viewed as the author of the Book of Ezekiel that reveals prophecies regarding the destruction of Jerusalem, the restoration to the land of Israel and the Millennial Temple visions, or the Third Temple.

History of rail transport in Israel

Sir Moses Montefiore, in 1839, was an early proponent of trains in the land of Israel.

Hiyya

Rabbi Hiyya bar Abba, an Amora of the Land of Israel, and uncle of Abba Arika (Rav).

Israel lobby in the United Kingdom

British Journalist Geoffrey Wheatcroft writes that perhaps the “first lobbyist on behalf of the land of Israel” was Theodor Herzl who, after publishing his book The Jewish State in 1896, and organizing the First Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland in 1897, met in person British Cabinet ministers and other European officials.

Kfar Brandeis

Kfar Brandeis was founded as a rural village in 1927, and was named after Louis Brandeis, an American Jewish supreme court judge and the founder of "The Economic Company for the Land of Israel".

Labor Zionism

In the 1969 Knesset elections it ran as the "List for the Land of Israel", but failed to cross the electoral threshold.

Targum

From the Land of Israel, the tradition of targum to Ketuvim made its way to Italy, and from there to medieval Ashkenaz and Sepharad.

Tikkun HaKlali

In return for absolute allegiance to God on the part of the nation, God promised to be their God and to give them the land of Israel as an inheritance (Genesis 17:7-8).

Ya'ackov Ben-Dov

Ben Dov immortalized images of the Jewish Legion in Eretz Israel in his second film Land of Israel Liberated (1919), which includes a portrait of Legion founder Ze'ev Jabotinsky in uniform.