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Pre-Ulpan (Mandatory to those with a low level of Hebrew, available in the summer session only) A month and a half of extensive Hebrew Ulpan studies in the Garin Tzabar Village in Ra'anana. The participants come from all around the world, and are accompanied by social counselors. In the afternoons, there are social activities and volunteering.
Between 1948 and 1952, about 700,000 immigrants arrived in the new state. The Jewish Agency helped these immigrants acclimate to Israel and begin to build new lives. It established schools to teach them Hebrew, beginning with Ulpan Etzion in 1949. [66] (The first student to register for Ulpan Etzion was Ephraim Kishon. [67]) It also provided ...
Ra'anana Park [1] is a public park spanning 200 acres, which serves as the central park of the city of Ra'anana, Israel. Nestled at the western edge of Ahuza Street, on the western border of the city, the park adjoins Kfar Batya and the Lev Hapark neighborhood to the north. To the south and west, it borders the fields between Ra'anana and ...
Yosef Zvi Rimon (born January 18, 1968) is an Israeli Religious Zionist rabbi, author, lecturer and Posek who serves as rabbi of the Gush Etzion Regional Council and the Ashkenazi Synagogue of Alon Shvut Darom. [1] [2] He is Rosh Yeshiva of the Jerusalem College of Technology (Machon Lev) and a Rosh Kollel at Yeshivat Har Etzion.
Kfar Etzion (Hebrew: כְּפַר עֶצְיוֹן, lit. Etzion Village) is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank , organized as a religious kibbutz located in the Judean Hills between Jerusalem and Hebron in the southern West Bank , established in 1927, depopulated in 1948 and re-established in 1967.
Etzion (Hebrew: עציון, lit. of the tree ), also spelled Ezion , can refer to places and topics relating to modern, ancient Israel and the West Bank: Ezion-Geber , a biblical Idumaean and Israelite port on the Red Sea
The Gush Etzion Regional Council (Hebrew: מועצה אזורית גוש עציון, Mo'atza Azorit Gush Etzion) is a regional council in the northern Judean Hills, the northern part of the southern area of the West Bank, administering the settlements in the Gush Etzion region, as well as others nearby.
Alon Shvut, literally, "oak of return", is a reference to the return of the Jews expelled from Gush Etzion by the Jordanian Arab Legion in 1948 following the Kfar Etzion massacre. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The 700-year-old Kermes Oak ( Quercus calliprinos ) [ 10 ] is sacred to the Arabs with the name Ballutet el Yerzeh (oak of Yerzeh).