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