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    The Hebraization of surnames (also Hebraicization; Hebrew: עברות Ivrut) is the act of amending one's Jewish surname so that it originates from the Hebrew...
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  • Look up Hebraization in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hebraization may refer to: Hebraization of Palestinian place names Hebraization of surnames Hebraization...
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  • cultural assimilation and the recent trend toward Hebraization of surnames. Some traditional surnames relate to Jewish history or roles within the religion...
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  • phonology Hebrew alphabet Romanization of Hebrew Hebraization of surnames Random House Unabridged Dictionary: Hebraize Random House Unabridged Dictionary:...
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    Modern Hebraization efforts began from the time in the First Aliyah in 1880. In the early 1920s, the HeHalutz youth movement began a Hebraization program...
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    Country the 'Nation-State of the Jewish People'". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 July 2018. "The Hebraization of Surnames". Jewish Agency for Israel...
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  • financed approximately $US50 million of costs. The operation's name Yachin was of Biblical origin, being the name of one of the two central pillars that supported...
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    Ilan Ramon (category Recipients of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor)
    "Ilan". Behindthename.com. Retrieved September 1, 2011. "The Hebraization of Surnames". Jewish Agency for Israel. Archived from the original on July...
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  • of Israel (Hebrew: קִבּוּץ גָּלֻיּוֹת, Modern: Kibbutz Galuyot, Tiberian: Qibbuṣ Galuyoth, lit. 'Ingathering of the Exiles'), or the Ingathering of the...
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  • The history of the Jews and Judaism in the Land of Israel begins in the 2nd millennium BCE, when Israelites emerged as an outgrowth of southern Canaanites...
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  • First Aliyah (category Political movements of the Ottoman Empire)
    romanized: HaAliyah HaRishona), also known as the agriculture Aliyah, was a major wave of Jewish immigration (aliyah) to Ottoman Palestine between 1881 and 1903. Jews...
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    at the initiative of Theodor Herzl at the First Zionist Congress, which took place in August 1897 in Basel, Switzerland. The goals of the Zionist movement...
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    First Zionist Congress (category History of Basel)
    הראשון) was the inaugural congress of the Zionist Organization (ZO) held in the Stadtcasino Basel in the city of Basel on August 29–31, 1897. Two hundred...
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    Jewish religious thought since the destruction of the First Temple and the Babylonian exile. The first wave of modern Jewish migration to Ottoman-ruled Palestine...
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  • 1 of the Law of Return declares that "every Jew has the right to come to this country as an oleh [immigrant]". In the Law of Return, the State of Israel...
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    dispersion of Israelites or Jews out of their ancient ancestral homeland (the Land of Israel) and their subsequent settlement in other parts of the globe...
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    Yishuv (category Demographics of Mandatory Palestine)
    Community in the Land of Israel') denotes the body of Jewish residents in Palestine prior to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. The term...
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    Zionist Congress was established in 1897 by Theodor Herzl as the supreme organ of the Zionist Organization (ZO) and its legislative authority. In 1960 the names...
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  • field". For more examples and other approaches, see the article on Hebraization of surnames. mesilat barzel (obsolete term for railway) from German Eisenbahn...
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    widely known nickname for Operation On Wings of Eagles (Hebrew: כנפי נשרים, Kanfei Nesharim lit. Wings of Eagles/Vultures), an operation between June 1949...
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  • Historical Jewish population (category Aftermath of the Holocaust)
    contains a number of counts as to the number of (adult, male) Hebrews that left Egypt, the descendants of the seventy sons and grandsons of Jacob who took...
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  • romanized: HaAliyah HaShniya) was an aliyah (Jewish immigration to the Land of Israel) that took place between 1904 and 1914, during which approximately...
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    by the State of Israel. Traditionally described as "the act of going up" (towards the Jewish holy city of Jerusalem), moving to the Land of Israel or "making...
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  • Tiffany Moss, American murderer of Emani Moss William Lorenzo Moss (1876–1957), American physician Hebraization of surnames Moss (disambiguation) Mosse Last...
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  • Immigration B) was a branch of the paramilitary organization Haganah in British Mandatory Palestine, and later the State of Israel, that operated to facilitate...
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  • Aliyah Bet (category Blockades of World War II)
    – bet being the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet) was the code name given to illegal immigration by Jews, many of whom were refugees escaping from...
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  • of modern Jewish immigration to Palestine from Europe. This wave lasted from 1919, just after the end of World War I, until 1923, at the start of an...
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  • many currents of Zionism. The concept encourages the dedication to Zionism and it is used to justify the denial of the feasibility of Jewish emancipation...
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    אולפן), plural ulpanim, is an institute or school for the intensive study of Hebrew. Ulpan is a Hebrew word meaning "studio", "teaching", or "instruction"...
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  • particular strove to revive the Hebrew language. Many also adopted Hebraized surnames. The opposition became known as Cultural Zionists. Important Cultural...
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