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| Timeline of Jerusalem This is a partial timeline of major events in the History of Jerusalem: 1800 BCE The Jebusites build the wall Jebus (Jerusalem). 993 BCE King David attacks and captures Jerusalem. Jerusalem becomes City of David and capital of the United Kingdom of Israel. c. Timeline_of_Jerusalem | |
| Joy User_talk:Joy | |
| Jewish history Jewish history is the history of the Jewish people, faith, and culture. Since Jewish history encompasses nearly six thousand years and hundreds of different populations, any treatment can only be provided in broad strokes. Additional information can be found in the main articles listed below, and in the specific country histories listed in this article. Jewish_history | |
| Larry Brown (basketball) Lawrence Harvey "Larry" Brown (born September 14, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York, United States) is the head coach of the National Basketball Association's Charlotte Bobcats.He has been a college and professional basketball coach since 1975. He has won over 1,000 professional games in the ABA and the NBA and is the only coach in NBA history to lead seven different teams to the playoffs. Larry_Brown_(basketball) | |
| John J. McCloy John Jay McCloy (March 31, 1895, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania March 11, 1989, Stamford, Connecticut) was a lawyer and banker who later became a prominent United States presidential advisor. He was known for his opposition to the World War II atomic bombing of Japan, his refusal to endorse compensation to the 110,000 Japanese-Americans who were held in internment camps within the USA, and his refusal as Assistant Secretary of War to endorse USAAF bombing raids on the rail approaches to Auschwitz concentration camp that would have saved countless Nazi Holocaust victims-and his pardoning of convicted Nazi War Criminals such as Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach; Friedrich Flick and Ernst von Weizsäcker. John_J._McCloy | |
| Ramat Gan Ramat Gan ( Tel Aviv district of Israel, located east of Tel Aviv. It is home to one of the world's major diamond exchanges and Israel's tallest building, the Moshe Aviv Tower. Ramat Gan was established in 1921 as a moshava, a communal farming settlement. At the end of 2007, the population was 133,400. The mayor of Ramat Gan is Zvi Bar. Ramat_Gan | |
| Rishon LeZion Rishon LeZion ( lit. First to Zion), is the fourth-largest city in Israel, located along the central Israeli coastal plain. It is part of the Gush Dan metropolitan area. The city had a population of 224,300 at the end of 2007. Founded in 1882 by Russian Jewish immigrants, it was second Jewish farm colony established in Palestine in the 19th century, after Petah Tikva. Rishon_LeZion | |
| Lebanese Civil War The Lebanese Civil War was a multifaceted civil war in the nation of Lebanon in the Middle East. The war lasted from 1975 to 1990 and resulted in an estimated 130,000 to 250,000 civilian fatalities. Another one million people (one third of the population) were wounded, half of whom were left with lifetime disabilities.There is no consensus among scholars and researchers on what triggered the Lebanese Civil War. Lebanese_Civil_War | |
| Israeli security forces Security forces in Israel include a variety of organizations, including law enforcement, military, paramilitary, governmental, and intelligence agencies. Israeli_security_forces | |
| Israeli security forces Talk:Israeli_security_forces | |
| Midian Midian was a land bordered by the Arabah between Moab and Elat and by the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea. Its east had no borders. Midian | |
| Ayman al-Zawahiri Dr. Ayman Muhammad Rabaie al-Zawahiri (, born June 19, 1951) is a prominent leader of al-Qaeda, and was the second and last "emir" of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, having succeeded Abbud al-Zummar in the latter role when Egyptian authorities sentenced al-Zummar to life imprisonment. Al-Zawahiri is a qualified surgeon, and is an author of works including numerous al-Qaeda statements. He speaks Arabic and English. Al-Zawahiri is under worldwide embargo by the UN 1267 Committee as a member or affiliate of al-Qaeda. Ayman_al-Zawahiri | |
| Freedom of religion in Iran Freedom of religion in Iran is a debated subject. Iran is an Islamic republic. The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran mandates that the official religion of Iran is Islam (seeIslam in Iran) and the Twelver Ja'fari school, though it also mandates that other Islamic schools are to be accorded full respect, and their followers are free to act in accordance with their own jurisprudence in performing their religious rites and recognizes Zoroastrian, Jewish, and Christian Iranians as religious minorities. Freedom_of_religion_in_Iran | |
| Alois Brunner Alois Brunner (born April 8, 1912, reports of death contested) is an Austrian Nazi war criminal. Brunner was Adolf Eichmann's assistant, and Eichmann referred to Brunner as his "best man." As commander of the Drancy internment camp outside Paris from June 1943 to August 1944, Alois Brunner is held responsible for sending some 140,000 European Jews to the gas chambers. Alois_Brunner | |
| Beit She'an Bayt Šān or بيسان, 'Beisan or Bisan) Beit_She'an | |
| Hadera Hadera (, ''Haifa District of Israel approximately from the major cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa. The city is located along of the Israeli Mediterranean Coastal Plain. The city has a population of 77,100 which includes a high proportion of immigrants since 1990, notably from Ethiopia and the Soviet Union.Hadera was established in 1891 as a farming colony by members of the Zionist group, Hovevei Zion, from Lithuania and Latvia. Hadera | |
| Safed Safed | |
| Kiryat Shmona Kiryat Shmona (, lit. City of the Eight) is a city located in the North District of Israel on the western slopes of the Hula Valley on the Lebanese border. The city was named for the eight people, including Joseph Trumpeldor, who died in 1920 defending Tel Hai. Today, about one-third of Kiryat Shmona's population of 22,100 are younger than 19, and the majority of its inhabitants are Jews, particularly of Sephardic descent. Kiryat_Shmona | |
| Khaled Mashal Khaled_Mashal | |
| Amos Oz Amos Oz () (born May 4, 1939, birth name Amos Klausner) is an Israeli writer, novelist, and journalist. He is also a professor of literature at Ben-Gurion University in Be'er Sheva. Since 1967, he has been a prominent advocate of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In 2008 he received an Honorary Degree from the University of Antwerp. He also received the Dan David prize in 2008 for "Creative Rendering of the Past". Amos_Oz | |
| Misnagdim Misnagdim | |
| Tribe of Asher The Tribe of Asher () was one of the Tribes of Israel. At its height, Asher dwelled in western Galilee, a region with comparatively low temperature, and much rainfall, making it some of the most fertile land in Canaan, with rich pasture, wooded hills, and orchards; as such Asher was particularly prosperous, and known for its olive oil. The Blessing of Moses appears to prophecy this, though textual scholars view this as a clear case of postdiction. Tribe_of_Asher | |
| ZAKA ZAKA (, an abbreviation for Zihuy Korbanot Ason, literallycommunity emergency response teams in Israel, each operating in a police district (two in the Central District due to geographic considerations). These organizations are officially recognized by the government. ZAKA | |
| Yigal Allon Yigal Allon (, 10 October 1918 – 29 February 1980) was an Israeli politician, a commander of the Palmach, and a general in the IDF. He served as one of the leaders of Ahdut HaAvoda party and the Israeli Labor party, acting Prime Minister of Israel, as well as being a member of Knesset and government minister from the tenth through the seventeenth Knessets. Yigal_Allon | |
| Vitaly Ginzburg Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg (; born 4 October 1916 in Moscow) is a Russian theoretical physicist and astrophysicist and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is the successor to Igor Tamm as head of the Department of Theoretical Physics of the Academy's physics institute (FIAN), and an outspoken atheist. Vitaly_Ginzburg | |
| Ilse Koch Ilse Koch, born Ilse Köhler (September 22, 1906 – September 1, 1967), was the wife of Karl Koch, the commandant of the concentration camps Buchenwald from 1937 to 1941 and Majdanek from 1941 to 1943. She was one of the first prominent Nazis to be tried by the US military. Ilse_Koch | |
| Jacob Emden Jacob Emden () (the Yabets) was a rabbi and notable talmudist, and prominent opponent of the Sabbateans. He was born at Altona June 4, 1697, and died there April 19, 1776. He was the son of the Chacham Tzvi, and a great-great grandson of Elijah Ba'al Shem of Chelm. Jacob_Emden | |
| East Jerusalem East Jerusalem refers to the part of Jerusalem captured by Jordan in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and subsequently by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. It includes Jerusalem's Old City and some of the holiest sites of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, such as the Temple Mount, Western Wall, Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. East_Jerusalem | |
| Fritz Albert Lipmann Fritz Albert Lipmann (June 12 1899 July 24 1986) was a German-American biochemist and a co-discoverer in 1945 of coenzyme A. For this, together with other research on coenzyme A, he was awarded half the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1953.Lipmann was born in Königsberg, Germany to a Jewish family.Lipmann studied medicine at the University of Königsberg, Berlin, and Munich, graduating in Berlin in 1924. Fritz_Albert_Lipmann | |
| Anan ben David Anan Ben David (ca 715 - ca 795 or 811?) () is widely considered to be a major founder of the Karaite movement of Judaism. His followers were called Ananites and, like modern Karaites, do not believe the Rabbinic Jewish oral law (such as the Mishnah) to be divinely inspired. Later Karaite sages are highly critical of ben David, leading some modern scholars to believe that Ananism was separate from Karaism. Anan_ben_David | |
| Yemenite Jews Yemenite Jews (Hebrew:תֵּימָנִים, Standard Temanim Tiberian 'תֵּימָנִי, Standard Temani Tiberian 'Jews who live, or whose recent ancestors lived, in Yemen (תֵּימָן, Standard Teman Tiberian 'Arabian peninsula. Virtually the entire Jewish population emigrated from Yemen between June 1949 and September 1950 in what was deemed Operation Magic Carpet. Yemenite_Jews | |
| Moshe Chaim Luzzatto Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (Hebrew:משה חיים לוצאטו, also Moses Chaim, Moses Hayyim, also Luzzato) (1707-1746 (26 Iyar 5506)), also known by the Hebrew acronym RaMCHaL (or RaMHaL, רמח"ל), was a prominent Italian Jewish rabbi, kabbalist, and philosopher. Moshe_Chaim_Luzzatto | |
| Kafr Qasim massacre Talk:Kafr_Qasim_massacre | |
| Al-Andalus Al-Andalus () was the Arabic name given to the parts of the Iberian Peninsula and Septimania governed by Arab and North African Muslims (given the generic name of Moors), at various times in the period between 711 and 1492.Following the conquest, al-Andalus was divided into five administrative areas roughly corresponding to Andalusia, Galicia and Lusitania, Castile and Léon, Aragon and Catalonia, and Septimania. Al-Andalus | |
| Emanuel Ringelblum Emanuel Ringelblum (November 21, 1900 – March 7, 1944) was a Polish-Jewish historian, politician and social worker, known for his Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto, Notes on the Refugees in Zbąszyn chronicling the deportation of Jews from the town of Zbąszyń, and the so-called Ringelblum's Archives of the Warsaw Ghetto. Emanuel_Ringelblum | |
| Denise Bloch Denise Madeleine Bloch (1916 – 1945, Ravensbrück, Germany) was a British secret agent working with the Special Operations Executive in World War II. Denise_Bloch | |
| Pale of Settlement Pale of Settlement (, cherta osedlosti) was the term given to a region of Imperial Russia, along its western border, in which permanent residence of Jews was allowed, and beyond which Jewish residence was generally prohibited. It extended from the pale or demarcation line to the Russian border with Germany and Austria-Hungary. Pale_of_Settlement | |
| Consequences of German Nazism German Nazism and the acts of the Nazi German state profoundly affected many countries, communities and peoples before, during and after World War II. While the attempt of Germany to exterminate several nations viewed as subhuman by Nazi ideology was stopped by the Allies, Nazi aggression nevertheless led to the deaths of tens of millions and the ruin of several states. Consequences_of_German_Nazism | |
| Kristallnacht Talk:Kristallnacht | |
| Joseph (Hebrew Bible) Talk:Joseph_(Hebrew_Bible) | |
| Chaim Herzog Chaim_Herzog | |
| Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp Mauthausen Concentration Camp (known from the summer of 1940 as Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp) grew to become a large group of Nazi concentration camps that was built around the villages of Mauthausen and Gusen in Upper Austria, roughly east of the city of Linz.Initially a single camp at Mauthausen, it expanded over time to become one of the largest labour camp complexes in German-controlled Europe. Mauthausen-Gusen_concentration_camp | |
| Hermann Göring Talk:Hermann_Göring | |
| Israeli West Bank barrier The Israeli West-Bank barrier is a barrier being constructed by the State of Israel, consisting of a network of fences with vehicle-barrier trenches surrounded by an on average 60 meters wide exclusion area (90%) and up to 8 Israeli_West_Bank_barrier | |
| Israeli West Bank barrier/Archive 5 Talk:Israeli_West_Bank_barrier/Archive_5 | |
| Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Recep Tayyip Erdoğan () (b. February 26, 1954 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish politician, a former mayor of Istanbul and the Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey since 14 March, 2003. He is also the chairman of the Justice and Development Party ( - "AK Parti"), which holds a majority of the seats in the Turkish Parliament. Recep_Tayyip_Erdoğan | |
| Christian Zionism Christian Zionism, is a belief among some Christians that the return of the Jews to the Holy Land, and the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, is in accordance with Biblical prophecy. It overlaps with, but is distinct from, the nineteenth century movement for the Restoration of the Jews to the Holy Land which had both religiously and politically motivated supporters. Christian_Zionism | |
| Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Gustav_Krupp_von_Bohlen_und_Halbach | |
| Hjalmar Schacht Dr. Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht (22 January 1877 – 3 June 1970) was the Currency Commissioner and President of the Reichsbank under the Weimar Republic, and President of the Reichsbank between 1933 and 1939. Schacht was one of the primary drivers of Germany's policy of redevelopment, reindustrialization and rearmament, and was a fierce critic of his country's post-World War I reparation obligations. Hjalmar_Schacht | |
| Law of Return The Law of Return (Hebrew:ḥok ha-shvūt) is Israeli legislation, enacted in 1950, that gives Jews, those of Jewish ancestry, and their spouses the right to migrate to and settle in Israel and gain citizenship. Law_of_Return |
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