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Of those members, three are Conservative (two Progressive Conservative, one United Conservative) and one is Liberal (one Quebec Liberal). There has never been a Jewish Prime Minister of Canada. Dave Barrett remains the only Jewish Premier (of British Columbia, 1972-1975), although Bob Rae (Premier of Ontario 1990-1995) has very strong family ...
Zionism had not been a significant part of his background in Austria, but Stephan became an ardent Zionist, was the only descendant of Theodor Herzl to have become one. Anglicizing his name to Stephen Norman, during World War II, Norman enlisted in the British Army rising to the rank of Captain in the Royal Artillery .
The Canadian Zionist Federation was founded in 1967 as an umbrella organization whose members included Zionist Organization of Canada, Canadian Hadassah-Wizo, the Labour Zionist Movement of Canada, Mizrachi Hapoel Hamizrachi Organization of Canada, Zionist Revisionist Organization of Canada, Achdut Avoda, and Friends of Pioneering Israel (Mapam).
Mexican President Francisco I. Madero's family was widely thought to have been of Portuguese-Jewish heritage. [78] Nicolás Maduro who has served as the president of Venezuela since 2013 said that his "grandparents were Jewish, from a [Sephardic] Moorish background, and converted to Catholicism in Venezuela". [79]
Considered the father of political Zionism, Herzl did not live to see a Jewish state. ... (The U.S. under President Truman was the first major power to recognize Israel, in 1948; Russia did the ...
A dual citizen of Canada and of Israel, [1] Saks was born in Toronto to an Israeli father and a Canadian mother and has lived in both Israel (1995 to 2006) and Canada. [4] She attended McGill University for her undergraduate education, and then completed her Master's degree in international relations and diplomacy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. [4]
When Joe Biden met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his war cabinet during his visit to Israel, the U.S. president assured them: "I don't believe you have to be a Jew to be a Zionist ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. People who played important roles in the definition, historical development and growth of the modern Zionist movement: A–B Sarah Aaronsohn (1890–1917), born and died in Ottoman Syria/Ottoman Empire (now Israel), member of the Nili Jewish spy ring (working for the British) Gershon Agron (1890s ...