Abba Ahimeir

Today we return to the Dry Bones Zionist series with Abba Ahimeir(1897-1962.

His Zionism was secular and revolutionary. He was one of the founders of the "Revisionist Labor Bloc"

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Nahum Sokolov

Latest in the Zionist series: Nahum Sokolov (1861-1936). The father of Hebrew journalism. He translated Herzl's "Altneuland" into Hebrew, rendering the German "Altneuland" (Old New Land) in Hebrew as "Tel Aviv" (Ancient Hill of Springtime). * * *
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Pastor John Hagee

Latest in the Zionist series: Pastor John Hagee; Contemporary Christian Zionist, founder of CUFI (Christians United For Israel).

"The day America turns its back on Israel, is the day that God will turn his back on America."

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Louis Brandeis

Latest in the Zionist series: Louis Brandeis, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and dedicated Zionist Activist. He was chairman of the pre-state "Provisional Executive Committee for General Zionist Affairs" * * *
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Mickey Marcus, Zionist hero

Another entry in the Zionist series: Micky Marcus, the retired U.S. Army Colonel who joined the "impossible" Jewish fight to beat off the invading Arab armies. * * *
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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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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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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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Chaim Weitzmann

Chaim Weitzmann, Scientist, President of the World Zionist Organization, he later served as the first President of the State of Israel.
Another in our gallery of Zionist thinkers.
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Yehuda HaLevi

Yehuda HaLevi, Medieval Spanish Rabbi, Physician, and Poet.
He left Spain to return to the Land of Israel in the year 1141.
Another in our gallery of Zionist thinkers.
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Hannah Senesh

For those who ask why I am devoting myself to the Zionist series, I can do no better than to quote Hannah Senesh"

"There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct.
There are people whose brilliance continues to light the world even though they are no longer among the living.
These lights are particularly bright when the night is dark.
They light the way for humankind"
-Hannah Senesh.

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Moshe Hess

Moshe Hess, a 19th century European Jewish Socialist who called for a Jewish State in Palestine.
Another in our gallery of Zionist thinkers.
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A. D. Gordon

A. D. Gordon worked to spread the idea of Jewish manual labor and the establishing of Jewish agriculture in the land of the Jews.
Gordon is more than a street in Tel Aviv.
He is part of the rich and deep Zionist roots of the Jewish State. * * * Please support Dry Bones by donating through PayPal or by using your Credit Card.
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Max Nordau

Max Nordau was a totally assimilated European Jew. His “return” to Jewishness as an activist Zionist was a reaction to French antisemitism and the infamous, antisemitic “Dreyfus Affair.”

Zionism needs to be reborn.
A good start is to focus on the original founders and fashioners of Zionism.

Welcome to "Neo Zionism"!

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