4449. ULTA ORTHODOX JEWISH FANILYES IN TRADITIONAL DRESS

4490. JEWISH WEDDING IN BUCHARA (UZBEKISTAN) BRIDE AND GROOM WEAR THE TRADITIONAL LOCAL GOLD ENBROIDERED COSTUMES

456. BLESSING OF THE PRIESTS – IN THE DAYS WHEN THE TEMPLE STOOD IN JERUSALEM, PEOPLE USED TO MAKE A PILGRIMAGE TO THE TEMPLE WHERE THEY WERE BLESSED BY THE PRIESTS. TODAY THE CEREMONY IS HELD AT THE WESTERN WALL, PIC: THE MEN WITH THE WHITE PRAYING SHAWLS, TALITOTH, ARE THE COHANIM, BLESSING THE PEOPLE.

4750. MAIMONIDES (MOSHE BEN MAIMON) Jewish philosopher, born in C=rdoba, S Spain. He studied Aristotelian philosophy and Greek medicine from Arab teachers, and migrated to Egypt, where he became physician to Saladin. A major influence on Jewish thought, he wrote an important commentary on the Mishna, and a great philosophical work, the ‘ Guide of […]

4753. Shmuel Yoseph AGNON – (1888?1970) Major Israeli novelist, born in Buczacz, Poland. He went to Palestine in 1907. He wrote in Hebrew an epic trilogy of novels on Eastern Jewry in the early 20th century . In 1966 he became the first Israeli to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

4757. Jabotinsky Vladimir,, 1880?1940, Jewish Zionist leader, b. Russia. A fiery orator and an accomplished writer in several languages, he was a militant Zionist and a persistent advocate of Jewish self-defense against pogroms in Russia. He formed the first Jewish self-defense unit in Palestine during the clashes with the Arabs in 1920;

4758. Herzl, Theodor (1860?1904) Zionist leader, born in Budapest, Hungary. After reporting the Dreyfus trial (1894), he was converted to Zionism, and in the pamphlet ‘Judenstaat’ (1896, The Jewish State) he called for a world council to discuss the question of a homeland for the Jews, convened the first Zionist Congress at Basel (1897), and […]

4763. Jewish nonlegal emigrants during the British mandate, being arrested and transported from Palestine

4775. New emigrant learning Hebrew in specially organized curses ‘ulpanim’ during the great immigration year 1950 when more than one million new emigrants arrived in Israel

4779. Refugees from a detention camp, still wearing their yellow badges, arrive in Plestine in 1944

4874. Kook, Abraham Isaac, 1864?1935, Jewish scholar and philosopher, b. Latvia. He settled (1904) in Palestine, where he became the chief rabbi of the Ashkenazi community in 1921. He attempted to show that Palestine and Zionism were an integral part of Judaism

4878. Alfred Dreyfus, 1859-1935, French Military Officer wrongly accused of treason. In 1884 Captain Alfred Dreyfus of France was accused of selling military secrets to Germany. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison, but in 1886 new evidenced surfaced that seemed to exonerate Dreyfus.

4940. GREEK ORTHODOX BAPTIZING CEREMONY IN THE RIVER JORDAN

4940. GREEK ORTHODOX BAPTIZING CEREMONY IN THE RIVER JORDAN

4985. PROF. YIGAEL YADIN, THE GREAT ARCHEOLOGIST WHO EXCAVATED MASADA

5021. Max Nordau (1849-1923), born Simon Maximilian Sn

5024. PARTICIPANTS OF THE 6TH. ZIONIST CONGRESS IN BASEL (SWISS) 1903. HERZEL, NORFAU AND WOLFSON IN THE FRONT ROW ON THE RIGHT

bishop,