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30 Cards in this Set
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When does Rabbi Haim Abulafia immigrate to Israel?
Who invited him? Where did he settle? |
1740
The Ottoman Sultan Tiberias - lead wave of immigrants including Rabbi Moses Haim Lazzato. |
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What year did Napoleon conquer Jaffa?
Did he conquer Akko? What important proclamation did he make? |
1799
No Napoleon's Proclamation of a Jewish State. |
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When did the Egyptian conquer Palestine in rebellion to the Ottoman Empire?
The names of the leaders? How long did they rule |
1831
Muhammad Ali and Ibrahim Pasha 9 years 1831 to 1840 |
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Who wrote Emuna Yeshara in 1943 advocating Zionism?
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Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalischer
Rabbi Yehudah Alkalai |
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Name the first Jewish settlement outside the Jerusalem city walls?
Date? |
Mishkenot Sha'ananim
1860 |
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Name the first Zionist settlement in Eretz Yisrael
When? |
Petah Tikvah.
1878 |
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Where was Hovevei Tzion first established.
In what decade. |
Russia
1870's |
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Who wrote Auto-Emancipation?
When was it published? |
Leon Pinsker
1882 |
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What does BILU mean - provide citation?
When was it founded It is associated with what settlement and when? |
Isaiah (2:5), "Beit Ya'akov Lekhu Ve-nelkha/Let the house of Jacob go!"
1882 - start of First Aliyah Gedera |
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When and where was the First Zionist Congress?
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1897 in Basel Switzerland
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In what Century did the False Messiah Sabbatai Zevi live?
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17th Century
Born in 1628 (Smyrna, Greece) and died in 1676 (Albania) |
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Name the socialist Zionist who wrote "Rome and Jerusalem"?
What year was it published |
Moses Hess
1862 |
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Who wrote HaTikvah?
What year? |
Naphtali Herz Imber
1878 |
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What was the time period of the First Aliyah?
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1882-1903
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Who coined the work "Zionism" - Sionismus?
What year? |
The publicist Nathan Birnbaum
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When when did the first Railway from Jaffa to Jerusalem begin to operate?
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1892
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When was Captain Alfred Dreyfus falsely accused of espionage?
Who helped exonerate him? |
1894
Emile Zola |
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Who wrote the book "Die Judenstadt".
What year was it published |
Theodor Herzl
1894 |
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Who wrote "Altneuland"?
What year? What city name in Israel was inspired by the title? |
Theodor Herzl
1902 Tel Aviv (Tel= old; Aviv = Spring or new) |
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When did the Kishinev [in today's Moldova] pogroms occcur?
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1903
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When did the Second Aliyah occur?
What incidents stimulated this Aliyah? |
1904-1914
Pogroms in Russia Arrests precedding and following the 1905 Russian Revolution |
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Who founded Va'ad HaLashon?
What was its mission" What year founded? |
Eliezer Ben Yehuda
Popularize Hebrew as the language of the Jewish people 1904 |
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When does David Gruen arrive in Israel?
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David Ben Gurion made Aliyah in 1906
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In what year was the city of Tel Aviv founded?
What was its original name? |
1909
Ahuzat Bayit |
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Name the first kibbutz?
When and where was it established? |
Degania
1909 Southern shore of Lake Kinneret |
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What was the "Watchmen" group called that was established in 1909?
What earlier group merged with it? What organization took over from HaShomere Name three earlier leaders |
HaShomer\
Bar Giora The Haganah in 1920 Yisrael Shohat, Yisrael Giladi, and Mendel Portugali. |
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Date of the Belfour Declaration?
What did it promise? |
November 2 1917
"National Homeland" for Jewish in Palestine |
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Years of Third Aliyah?
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1919-1922
Consists mainly of Jewish returning to Palestine following expulsion by Turks in WWI |
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Who established the Zion Mule Corps or "Jewish Legion" and in what year?
When and where did he die? |
Josef Trumpeldor
July 1915 March 1st 1920 at Tel Chai |
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Date of the Sykes-Picot agreement?
What did it do? |
May 1916
Divides up Levant between France and Britain into zones of influence; recognizes Arab independence in part of the land. |
