Cities with a population over 1000 database. 2013.
KEFAR SHEMARYAHU — (Heb. כְּפַר שְׁמַרְיָהוּ), semi rural Israeli settlement with municipal council status in the southern Sharon. Kefar Shemaryahu is named after shemaryahu levin . Founded in 1937 as a middle class moshav by immigrants from Germany, from the… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
POPULATION — THE JEWISH POPULATION Growth by Aliyah In 1882 the Jewish population of Ereẓ Israel numbered some 24,000, roughly 5% of the total, and about 0.3% of the world Jewish population. Since then there has been an almost continuous flow of aliyah, which … Encyclopedia of Judaism
RELIGIOUS LIFE AND COMMUNITIES — Jews UNDER OTTOMAN RULE The Jews of the pre Zionist old yishuv, both sephardim (from the Orient) and ashkenazim (of European origin), dedicated their lives to the fulfillment of religious precepts: the study of the torah and the meticulous… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
ZIONISM — This article is arranged according to the following outline: the word and its meaning forerunners ḤIBBAT ZION ROOTS OF ḤIBBAT ZION background to the emergence of the movement the beginnings of the movement PINSKER S AUTOEMANCIPATION settlement… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Chabad — For other uses of Chabad , see Chabad (disambiguation). Part of a series on Chabad Re … Wikipedia
SYRKIN, NACHMAN — (1868–1924), first ideologist and leader of Socialist Zionism. Born in Mogilev, Belorussia, Syrkin received a thorough Jewish education by private tutors, and when he moved with his family to Minsk (1884), he completed his studies at a Russian… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
