The Ethiopian Jews

The newest entry in the Dry Bones Zionist series remembers Israel's operations to rescue the Ethiopian Jews and their aliyah to the Jewish State. * * *
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The First Aliyah

This new entry in the Dry Bones Zionist series remembers what is called the "First Aliyah" (1882-1903). * * *
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Arthur Balfour

Latest in the Dry Bones Zionist series: Arthur Balfour.
In 1917, As Foreign Secretary of the UK, he wrote an official letter (The Balfour Document) calling for the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine. * * *
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2020: Bad News

2020: If it wasn't for bad news we'd have no news at all! * * *
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Deal of the Century?

Deal of the Century: Trump's vision of a democratic state of Palestine seems doomed. What does he or we do now?

According to David Singer explains: https://www.jwire.com.au/trumps-vision-of-a-democratic-state-of-palestine-is-doomed/

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Yitzhak Shamir

Continuing the Meet the Zionists Series: Yitzhak Shamir; Pre-State leader of the militant Lehi, he became the seventh Prime Minister of Israel * * * Please support Dry Bones by donating through PayPal or by using your Credit Card.
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Naomi Shemer

Continuing the Meet the Zionists Series: Naomi Shemer; Singer and songwriter. 

She wrote Yerushalayim Shel Zahav (Jerusalem of Gold). 

Click to see and hear her sing this national treasure: https://youtu.be/PqxrwiY1TkI

English translation:

The mountain air is clear as wine
And the scent of pines
Is carried on the breeze of twilight
With the sound of bells.

And in the slumber of tree and stone
Captured in her dream
The city that sits solitary
And in its midst is a wall.

Jerusalem of gold, and of bronze, and of light
Behold I am a violin for all your songs.

How the cisterns have dried
The market-place is empty
And no one frequents the Temple Mount
In the Old City.

And in the caves in the mountain
Winds are howling
And no one descends to the Dead Sea
By way of Jericho.

Jerusalem of gold, and of bronze, and of light
Behold I am a violin for all your songs.

But as I come to sing to you today,
And to adorn crowns to you (i.e. to tell your praise)
I am the smallest of the youngest of your children (i.e. the least worthy of doing so)
And of the last poet (i.e. of all the poets born).

For your name scorches the lips
Like the kiss of a seraph
If I forget thee, Jerusalem,
Which is all gold...

Jerusalem of gold, and of bronze, and of light
Behold I am a violin for all your songs.

We have returned to the cisterns
To the market and to the market-place
A ram's horn (shofar) calls out (i.e. is being heard) on the Temple Mount
In the Old City.

And in the caves in the mountain
Thousands of suns shine -
We will once again descend to the Dead Sea
By way of Jericho!

Jerusalem of gold, and of bronze and of light
Behold I am a violin for all your songs.

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Menachem Begin

Continuing the Meet the Zionists Series: Menachem Begin; Pre-State leader of the militant Irgun, he became the sixth Prime Minister of Israel * * * Please support Dry Bones by donating through PayPal or by using your Credit Card.
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Joseph Trumpeldor

Continuing the Zionists series: Joseph Trumpeldor; Russian Jewish Zionist.
He became a national hero when he died defending the settlement of Tel Hai in 1920. * * * Please support Dry Bones by donating through PayPal or by using your Credit Card.
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Another Eye in The Sky

Israel's Ofek 16 satellite successfully made it into orbit last week. It joins an array of reconnaissance devices that constantly monitor threats like Iran. Ofek 16 is expected to begin sending its first high-resolution pictures this week. * * *
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Newspeak

Mind control of the public is accomplished by the premeditated and constant use of politically loaded terms such as "annexation" "West Bank" and "Occupied Palestinian Territories". In the prophetic novel 1984 this was called Newspeak. Thus "West Bank" replaces Judea and Samaria, disputed territories become "Occupied Palestinian Territories" and the restoration of Israeli sovereignty to parts of the historic Land of Israel is called "annexation". * * *
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Before Dry Bones

If you have a good copy of this or any other of my pre-Dry Bones cartoons please send to me. They were published by the Jewish Liberation Project and distributed by the Jewish Student Press Service. Much appreciated.

New Israeli Elections?

At the opening ceremony of the elections committee for the 24th Knesset Arye Deri said that Israel "cannot go to fourth elections."

. . . Uh Oh!
(The Israeli public has learned to recognize these kind of warning signals).

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Naftali Imbar

Continuing the Zionists series:
Naftali Imbar was an itinerant poet whose visionary poem HaTikva (the Hope) was set to music to become Israel's National Anthem.

Transliteration:
Kol od ba’le’vav p’nima,
Nefesh yehudi ho’miyah.
U’lefa-atei mizrach kadimah,
Ayin le’Tziyyon tzofiyah.
Od lo avda tikva-teinu,
Ha’tikvah bat sh’not al-payim
Lih-yot am chofshi b’ar-tzeinu
Eretz Tziyyon v’Yerushalayim.

Translation:
As long as within our hearts
The Jewish soul sings,
As long as forward to the East
To Zion, looks the eye –
Our hope is not yet lost,
It is two thousand years old,
To be a free people in our land
The land of Zion and Jerusalem.

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Avraham Stern

Continuing the Zionists series: Avraham "Yair" Stern. founder of Lehi (the militant Zionist group which the British Mandate forces called "the Stern Gang"). * * * Please support Dry Bones by donating through PayPal or by using your Credit Card.
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Happy Entebbe Day

On June 27, 1976, four terrorists forced an Air France Airbus to land in Uganda, in the heart of distant Africa. The hijackers freed the French crew and in a Nazi-like selection, separated Jews from non-­Jewish passengers. They released the non-Jews and kept 105 Jewish and Israeli hostages.The hijackers demanded that Israel release 53 convicted terrorists. A deadline was set before executions would begin.
The grim news haunted us daily. July 3 1976, like all the days since June 27, was a dark, seemingly hopeless and depressing day. And then it was the 4th of July.
Those of us who were here in Israel on that amazing day, July 4. 1976, will never forget the lifting of the weight from our hearts, or the joy that suddenly broke through with the news of the IDF rescue of the hostages.

Now, 44 years later, the echo of that wonderful day still brightens my soul. A 4th of July has never passed since 1976 that I haven't celebrated Entebbe Day.

For those who weren't here then, you can find the bare facts at https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-entebbe-rescue-operation

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The Corona Curve

The curve has not been flattened. * * *
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