Israeli Culture and Literature Final
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- Shalom Aleichem
- Fiddler on the Roof
- Sir Edmund Allenby
- Head of the British Army in WWI
- Lord Balfour
- Balfour Declaration
- Ehud Barak
- PM
- Menahem Begin
- PM
- David Ben Gurion
- First PM
- Eliezer Ben Yehuda
- First Hebrew speaking son, Zionist forerunner
- Bezalel
- Biblical artist, art institute named for him
- H.N. Bialik
- National poet
- Meir Dizengoff
- 1st Mayor of Tel Aviv
- George Eliot
- Pro-Zionist writer
- Levi Eshkol
- PM
- A.D. Gordon
- "Guru" of 2nd Aliya
- Echad Ha'am
- Cultural Zionist writer in Europe
- Yehuda Halevi
- 11th century Spanish poet/philosopher
- Theodor Herzl
- president of 1st Zionist Congress
- Zev Jabotinsky
- Radical Zionist
- David Lloyd George
- British PM 1916, sympathetic to Zionist causes
- Golda Meir
- PM
- Moses Montefiore
- British, helped establish self-sufficiency of Jews in Israel
- Benjamin Netanyahu
- PM
- Shimon Peres
- PM
- Yizhak Rabin
- PM, assassinated in 1995
- Rashi
- 10th century biblical commentator
- Rothschild
- philanthropist family
- Herbert Samuel
- 1st British High Commissioner in Palestine
- Yizhak Shamir
- PM
- Moshe Sharett
- PM
- Ariel Sharon
- PM
- Nahum Sokolov
- Essayist, Zionism
- Josef Trumpeldor
- Formed WWI's Jewish Legion
- Chaim Weizmann
- 1st president of Israel
- Aliya
- wave of immigration
- Ashkenazy
- European Jew
- Baal Teshuva
- newly Orthodox
- BILU
- group of pioneers from 1st Aliya
- Diaspora
- dispersion
- Erets yisrael
- Land of Israel
- Galut
- exile (negative connotation)
- Gei
- proud
- Goy (shabbes goy)
- non-Jew (helps on Shabbat)
- Gush Emunim
- group that wanted to keep 1967 territories
- Haganah
- Jewish partisan militia
- Halakhah
- religious law
- Haredi
- ultra-Orthodox
- Hasid
- branch of Haredi
- High Holy Days/Days of Awe
- 10 days between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur
- Hovevei Zion
- Love of Zion
- Intifada
- "Shaking off", Palestinian uprising
- Ketuba
- marriage contract
- Kibbutz
- communal settlement
- Kosher/kashrut
- dietary laws
- Law of Return
- Jews can get citizenship in Israel
- LEHI - Irgun
- Revisionists, terrorism at end of British rule
- Ma'apilim
- illegal immigrants
- Mikvah
- ritual bath
- Mizrahi
- Jews of Middle Eastern descent
- Moshav
- agricultural settlement
- Passover(Pesah)
- commemoration of flight from Egypt
- Pogrom
- mob violence
- Pumeditha
- Rabbinic academy in medieval period
- Purim
- crossdressing holiday
- Rabbi
- teacher
- Rebbe
- holy man, leader in Haredi community
- Right of Return
- Right for refugees to return to Israel
- Rosh Hashana
- New year
- Sabbath
- day of rest
- Sephardi
- Spanish descent
- Shoah
- Holocaust
- Shtetl
- small city (eastern Europe)
- Sukkot
- feast of Tabernacles
- Synagogue
- place of worship
- Torah
- 1st 5 books of Bible, Jewish Liturgy
- Tzadik
- holy man
- Western Wall (Wailing Wall)
- remnants of 2nd temple
- Yad Vashem
- holocaust memorial in Jerusalem
- Yeshiva
- religious academy
- Yishuv
- Jewish population in Palestine pre-statehood
- Yom Kippur
- Day of atonement
- 1881
- 1st Aliya
- 1897
- 1st Zionist Congress
- 1904-14
- 2nd Aliya
- 1914-18
- WWI
- 1917
- Balfour Declaration
- 1920-48
- British Mandate
- 1936-39
- Arab Revolt
- 1937
- Peel Commission
- 1939
- White Paper
- 1939-1945
- WWII
- 1947
- UN Partition
- 1948
- Israel's Independence
- 1956
- Suez War
- 1967
- 6 Day War
- 1973
- Yom Kippur War
- 1978
- Camp David
- 1982
- Lebanon War
- 1987
- 1st Intifada
- 1991
- Persian Gulf War
- 1993
- Oslo Accords
- 1995
- Rabin assassinated
- 2000
- 2nd Intifada