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Europe and North America. Avdat or Ovdat (Hebrew: עבדת), and Abdah or Abde (Arabic: عبدة), are the modern names of an archaeological site corresponding to the ancient Nabataean, Roman and Byzantine settlement of Oboda (tabula Peutingeriana; Stephanus Byzantinus) or Eboda (Ptolemaeus 5:16, 4) [1] in the Negev desert in southern Israel.
Tel Aviv is the Hebrew title of Theodor Herzl’s 1902 novel Altneuland ("Old New Land"), as translated from German by Nahum Sokolow.Sokolow had adopted the name of a Mesopotamian site near the city of Babylon mentioned in Ezekiel: "Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel Abib [Tel Aviv], that lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven ...
Rachel Bluwstein in kibbutz Degania Alef, 1919–1921. Rachel Bluwstein Sela (20 September (Julian calendar) 1890 – 16 April 1931) was a Hebrew-language poet who immigrated to Palestine, then part of the Ottoman Empire, in 1909. She is known by her first name, Rachel (Hebrew: רחל [ʁ a ˈ χ e l]), or as Rachel the Poetess (רחל ...
1930s. 1930s – White City built. 1932. Tel Aviv Museum of Art established. Maccabiah Stadium opens. 1936 – Israel Rokach becomes mayor. 1938 – Jaffa Zoo opens. 1939 – Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper begins publication.
Country. Israel. State (s) Central (convicted) Haifa (suspected) Date apprehended. For the final time in 1983. Shlomo Haliva (born 1949), known as The Weeping Rapist, is an Israeli serial rapist, murderer and suspected serial killer. Convicted for the murder of a woman in 1983, he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
The White City (Hebrew: העיר הלבנה, Ha-Ir ha-Levana; Arabic: المدينة البيضاء Al-Madinah al-Bayḍā’) is a collection of over 4,000 buildings in Tel Aviv from the 1930s built in a unique form of the International Style, commonly known as Bauhaus, by German Jewish architects who fled to the British Mandate of Palestine from Germany (and other Central and East European ...
Women in Israel comprise 50.26 percent of the state's population as of 2019. [5] While Israel lacks an official constitution, the Israeli Declaration of Independence of 1948 states that “The State of Israel (…) will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex.”.
1921 Jaffa riots. Part of the intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine. Mass grave of Jewish victims of the 1921 riots, Trumpeldor Cemetery, Tel Aviv. Date. 1–7 May 1921. Location. Jaffa, Mandatory Palestine. 32°3′7″N 34°45′15″E / 32.05194°N 34.75417°E / 32.05194; 34.75417. Caused by.