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Canaanites

History; Israeli history

A small, anti-Zionist intellectual circle established in 1940 by poet Yonathan Ratosh; has advocated a complete separation between Israelis and Diaspora Jews and the creation of a ...

Brit Habirionim

History; Israeli history

A small, radical right-wing group that existed in Palestine between 1928 and 1933.

Brit Ha-Chashmonaim

History; Israeli history

A small, ultra nationalist religious movement established in Jerusalem in the late 1930s by Rabbi Moshe Segal; its members were encouraged to join the undergrounds of Etzel and ...

Zegota

History; Israeli history

A small, unique organization clandestinely established in Nazi-occupied Poland for the purpose of rescuing Jews. The director of Zegota was Zofia Kossack, a devout Catholic and a ...

Fascism

History; Israeli history

A social and political ideology with the primary guiding principle that the state or nation is the highest priority, rather than personal or individual freedoms.

Rafi

History; Israeli history

A socialist political party founded in 1965 by David Ben-Gurion and members of Mapai as a result of a split in Mapai. Became part of the Labor Party in 1968.

Maggid

History; Israeli history

A speaker. A kabbalistic notion of how the holy spirit is mediated to the mystic; later meant a preacher among the eighteenth-century Hasidim.