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The Hebrew Anu אנו means 'we, us'. Anu – Museum of the Jewish People is an institution telling the ongoing story of the Jewish people. Re-opened to the public on March 10, 2021, the organization is dedicated to celebrating and exploring the experiences, accomplishments, and spirit of the Jewish community from biblical times to the present. [2]
Bnei Brak or Bene Beraq (Hebrew: בְּנֵי בְּרַק (audio) ⓘ) is a city located on the central Mediterranean coastal plain in Israel, just east of Tel Aviv.A center of Haredi Judaism, Bnei Brak covers an area of 709 hectares (1,752 acres, or 2.74 square miles), and had a population of 218,357 in 2022. [1]
Gymnasia Herzliya was the country's first Hebrew high school, [1] founded in 1905 in Jaffa, part of the Ottoman Empire in those days. The cornerstone-laying for the school's new building on Herzl Street in the Ahuzat Bayit neighborhood (the nucleus of future Tel Aviv) took place on July 28, 1909. The building was designed by Joseph Barsky ...
The place of the razed Arab housing was taken by high-rise office buildings and a park. The Hassan Bek Mosque—spared due to the state and municipal authorities hesitating to be seen as desecrating a Muslim house of worship—remained, together with the building now housing the Irgun Museum of Tel Aviv, the last two remnants of the area's pre-1948 Manshiya neighbourhood.
Ophel (Hebrew: עֹפֶל, romanized: ʿōp̄el) [1][2] is the biblical term given to a certain part of a settlement or city that is elevated from its surroundings, and probably means fortified hill or risen area. In the Hebrew Bible, the term is used about two cities: Jerusalem, as in 2 Chronicles 27:3 and 33:14 and Nehemiah 3:26 and 11:21 ...
Hechal Yehuda is one of approximately 500 synagogues in Tel Aviv, situated on Menahem ben Saruq street in the city centre. It was built in memory of the Jewish community of Thessaloniki, which was almost completely destroyed during the Holocaust. It is named after Yehuda Leon Recanati. [2][3] The design is inspired by the seashells on the ...
As such Hebron is the second holiest city to Jews, and is one of the four cities where Israelite biblical figures purchased land (Abraham bought a field and a cave east of Hebron from the Hittites (Genesis 23:16-18), King David bought a threshing floor at Jerusalem from the Jebusite Araunah (2 Samuel 24:24), Jacob bought land outside the walls ...
In 1586, the Ottoman government closed the Ramban Synagogue (est. 1400) because it shared a wall with a mosque.As the only other synagogue in Jerusalem at the time belonged to the Karaite minority, followers of mainstream Rabbinic Judaism, including many descendants of refugees from the 1492 expulsion from Spain, held services in private homes for several years until completing the new ...