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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Yom Ha'atzmaut יוֹם הָעַצְמָאוּת Aerobatics display over Tel Aviv on Israel's 61st Independence Day, 2009 Observed by Israelis Celebrations Family gatherings, firework displays, public celebrations (barbecues, picnics, concerts, etc.), religious services Observances Mount Herzl ...
Walter Bingham MM (born Wolfgang Billig; 5 January 1924) is a German-born British-Israeli journalist, actor, and businessman, as well as a Holocaust survivor and decorated World War II veteran. [1] At age 99 in 2023, Bingham was Israel's oldest working journalist.
[43] [44] [45] On 21 August 1950 al-Said threatened to revoke the license of the company transporting the Jewish exodus if it did not fulfill its daily quota of 500 Jews, [failed verification] and in September 1950, he summoned a representative of the Jewish community and warned the Jewish community of Baghdad to make haste; otherwise, he would ...
The books of Maccabees were downplayed and relegated in the Jewish tradition and not included in the Jewish Tanakh (Hebrew Bible); it would be Christians who would produce more art and literature referencing the Maccabees during the medieval era, as the books of Maccabees were included in the Catholic and Orthodox Biblical canon. [112]
According to 1 Maccabees, Antiochus banned many traditional Jewish and Samaritan [15] religious practices: he made possession of the Torah a capital offense and burned the copies he could find; [25] [26] sabbaths and feasts were banned; circumcision was outlawed, and mothers who circumcised their babies were killed along with their families ...
A Clash of Destinies. The Arab-Jewish War and the Founding of the State of Israel. Frederick A. Praeger. LCCN 60-6996. OCLC 1348948. Levenberg, Haim (1993). Military Preparations of the Arab Community in Palestine: 1945–1948. London: Routledge. Levi, Yitzhak (1986). Nine Measures: The Battles for Jerusalem in the War of Independence (in ...
The Yom Kippur War, also known as the "10th of Ramadan War" in Arab countries, tempered Israeli confidence created after the victory of the Six-Day War. This time, Jordan stayed out and wasn't involved in the war. The war opened on 6 October 1973 on Yom Kippur, the holiest Jewish holiday.
Milton Rubenfeld (Hebrew: מילטון רובנפלד; September 13, 1919 – February 21, 2004) was an American pilot who flew for the Royal Air Force and U.S. Army during World War II, later becoming one of the five founding pilots of the Israeli Air Force in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.