Israeli history

Israeli history

The history of Israel encompasses the history of the modern State of Israel, as well as that of the Jews in the Land of Israel.

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Unit 101

History; Israeli history

A special unit led by Colonel Ariel Sharon and formed in 1953 that carried out retaliatory attacks against Fedayeen forces.

Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)

A statute that came into force on March 26, 1975 which prohibits any possession of biological warfare agents, toxins, equipment, or delivery systems. Israel is not a signatory although most nations ...

Valley of Tears

History; Israeli history

A stretch of valley in the northern Golan Heights where an Israeli force of 100 tanks was decimated by the invading Syrian army in 1973. Only seven tanks survived, but they continued to fight. Thanks ...

Linz III

History; Israeli history

A sub-camp of Mauthausen created in May 1944. It held a maximum of 5,615 prisoners.

Schlier-Redl-Zipf

History; Israeli history

A sub-camp of Mauthausen created in October 1943. It held a maximum of 1,488 prisoners.

Yetzer

History; Israeli history

A technical Hebrew term for human "inclination" to do good (yetzer ha-tov) or to do evil (yetzer ha-ra).

Redemption

History; Israeli history

A term from ancient economic vocabulary concerning the freeing by purchasing (manumission) of slaves, applied to the religious concept (especially in Christianity) of salvation from slavery to sin ...