Israel

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Israel

• By Jodi Salberg

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Israel's National Anthem

• http//www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Histor
  y/hatikva.html
• In the Jewish heartA Jewish spirit still sings,
  And the eyes look east, Toward Zion Our hope is
  not lost,Our hope of two thousand years, To be a
  free nation in our land,In the land of Zion and
  Jerusalem

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Location

• Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean Sea,
  between Egypt and Lebanon
• Israels size is slightly smaller
• then the state of New Jersey

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Population

• 6,426,679 This includes about 187,000 Israeli
  settlers in the West Bank, about 20,000 in the
  Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, and fewer than
  177,000 in East Jerusalem (July 2007 est.)
• Dead Sea gt

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Israel is best noted for

• Israeli Defense Forces-
• Founded in 1948,
• Armed forces in the world, having had to defend
  the country in five major wars.
• Objectives are to defend the existence,
  territorial integrity and sovereignty of the
  State of Israel, deter all enemies and curb all
  forms of terrorism which threaten daily life.
• Hospitals
• Scientific Research
• The Israel Cancer Research Fund
• The only voluntary charitable organization in
  North America solely devoted to supporting cancer
  research in Israel.
• It provided 1526 grants to outstanding cancer
  researchers whose laboratories are located in all
  of the leading scientific research institutions,
  universities and hospitals across Israel

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Family Immigration

• Batsheva Salberg
• Relation Mother
• Immigrated to Brooklyn New York
• In 1954
• Immigrated from Tel Aviv
• She came to America to escape religious
  persecution because her mother married an
  American citizen

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Family Immigration

• Cultural traditions
• Passover Seder
• Lighting candles on Chanukah
• Participating in temple on high holy days.

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Family Immigration

• Cultural based foods
• Knishes
• Matzo ball soup
• Matzo Brie

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Family Immigration

• Language spoken
• Hebrew
• Hebrew words that were brought over to America
• Shalom Peace, hello, goodbye
• Adoni- God
• Ema- Mother
• Aba- Father

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Famous Israelites

• Lea Nikel Famous artist
• Menachem Begin He led the first Jewish
  nationalist revolution in nearly 2,000 years and
  signed the first peace treaty in Israeli history
  with Egypt. He was the 6th prime minister of
  Israel.
• Moshe Dayan Israeli military leader and
  politician. He was a fighting symbol for the
  world on the new state of israel.

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Famous Israelite

• Lea Nikel Famous artist
• Lived in Moshav Kidron.
• Born in 1918 in Zhitomir, Ukraine,
• Nikel won the Sandberg Prize from the Israel
  Museum and the Israel Prize in 1995.
• Nikel is nicknamed "queen of abstract painting"
  and "queen of color and composition" among her
  Israeli colleagues.
• A brilliant abstract expressionist, her works are
  marked by brilliant colors, energy and
  composition. They are in numerous museums,
  including the Tate Gallery in London.

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Lea Nikel Famous paintings
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Common Physical Characteristics

• Dark hair
• Brown eye color
• Tall

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The End

• Tel Aviv