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30 Cards in this Set
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Chaim Weizmann
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First Israeli President when Ben Gurion was Prime Minister, Zionist leader/president
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LECHI
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Militant Zionists with goal of ousting British from Palestine, almost a leftwing zionist terror group
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Kibbutz
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Collective community traditionally based in Agriculture, every aspect of life was communal and there was no personal ownership, began as Utopian Combinations of Zionism and Socialism, many founded during 1st and 2nd aliyot
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HAMAS
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Political party that runs Gaza strip, recognized as terrorists by the United States, based on principles of Islamic Fundamentalism, Responsible for many attacks on Israel, Founded in 1980s
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The Histadrut
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Israeli trade union organization, established 1920, linked to the labor Zionist Movement
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Stalag Literature
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Israeli fiction genre surrounding the Holocaust and Nazi guards, popular in the 60's
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The ‘Reparation Agreement’
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Agreement between Israel and West Germany to repay Israel for persecution of Jews in Holocaust, widely protested in Israel for forgiving Nazis
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The White Papers
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British papers from 1922 and 1939 that clarified Britain's position with regards to Israel, the first one offered to help establish a Jewish state in Palestine and the second abandoned that idea in favor of created a joint Israeli/Palestinian state in Palestine
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“The Silver Platter”
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Patriotic Poem by Nathan Alterman, social zionist poem
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The Oslo Accords
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Series of Attempts during the 1990s to solve conflict, concerned mainly with Israel's withdrawal from west bank and Gaza and removal of Israeli Settlements, led indirectly to the assassination of Rabin.
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Yosef Trumpeldor
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Early Zionist Activist, brought many Jews to Israel, involved in WWI, died defending Jewish farming village from Arabs
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PALMACH
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Elite forces of the Haganah, fought from 41-49, precursor to the IDF, very active in 48 war but disbanded upon Israel achieving statehood
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Anwar Sa’adat (Sadat)
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Assassinated Egyptian Prime Minister who negotiated with Israel during the 70s and early 80s following the 67 and 73 wars , signed peace agreements at camp david accords with Israel that eventually caused his murder.
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Eichmann Trial
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Adolf Eichmann was a German officer convicted and executed in 1962 in Israel after being arrested in Argentina, defense said he was only following orders, prosecution maintained he was the man who oversaw systematic deportation of Jews
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Ariel Sharon
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Former Israeli Prime Minister and former general who was involved in all israeli armed conflicts since 1948, encouraged settlements, member of the right wing Likud Party
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Moshe Dayan
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Israeli General who helped found IDF, active in many Israeli wars
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SHAS
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Smaller, ultra orthodox party in Israel right wing, very conservative
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Itzhak Rabin
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Assassinated Israeli Prime Minister and former General, prime minister twice who as assassinated following his cooperation in the Oslo accords of the 90s, member of the labor party
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Menachem Begin
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Likud Party prime minister during the 80s, also lead the Irgun, fought against the british and also signed camp david accords with sadat
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Chaim Arlozorov
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Early Zionist leader in Palestine, helped start the labor part, assassinated in 1933
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Natan Alterman
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Poet who wrote Silver Platter, social zionist leader
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Ma’abara
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Transit camps that housed thousands of Jewish refugees during the massive Jewish influx to Israel following WWII, disbanded by the 60s
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Altalena
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Ship that was sunk to a confrontation between newly formed IDF and the Irgun, was carrying Irgun weapons, showed vast differences between different Israeli factions
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Gush Emunim
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Political Group that established settlements in the west bank during the 70s based on the biblical idea that God gave all of Palestine to the Jews
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Peace Now (Shalom Achshav)
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NGO that advocates for peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians
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Intifada
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Series of uprisings by the Palestinians against the Israelis, periods of intense fighting between the two sides, due to settlements, construction of the wall (which was designed to prevent intifada, also caused by Ariel Sharon visiting temple mount
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Brit-Shalom
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organization of European Jews that advocated the British for a Jewish state and later for peace in Israel
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Hilltop Youth
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Religious Zionist youth movements
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Likkud
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right wing Israeli political party with strict economic policies and little tolerance for the Palestinians, past members include Begin olmert and sharon
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The Golan Heights
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A contested region in Northern Israel that has changed hands several times in the last decade and is of strategic importance because of its mountains and proximity to Lebanon, Syria and Jordan
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