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Arab-Israeli War 1948-1949
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Isaac Israeli
Isaac Israeli (b. Egypt, fl. ninth-tenth century) medicine, philosophy. Nothing is known of Isaac Israeli Read more |
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Hezbollah
Hezbollah [Arab., = Party of God], Lebanese Shiite political party and militia. Founded in 1982 with Iranian help to oppose Israeli forces occupying S Lebanon, Hezbollah launched guerrilla attacks and suicide bombings against Israeli forces (which were a factor in Israel's withdrawal... Read more |
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Yasir Arafat
Yasir Arafat , 1929-2004, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the coordinating body for Palestinian organizations, and head of Al Fatah, the largest group in the PLO. He was born in Cairo, but spent most of his youth in Jerusalem. After smuggling arms to Arab forces during the... Read more |
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Histadrut
HISTADRUT Israeli federation of labor. The Histadrut Read more |
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Yom Kippur War
Yom Kippur War (1973) The Israeli name for the Arab-Israeli war called by the Arabs the October War. The war began on 6 October, the Feast of YOM KIPPUR, Israel's most important holy day, when Egyptian forces crossed the Suez Canal and breached the Israeli Bar Lev Line. Syrian troops threw back... Read more |
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Prospect theory
Prospect Theory BIBLIOGRAPHY Prospect theory is a psychologically-based framework that describes the mental processes involved when an individual makes a choice among uncertain prospects. In the 1970s Israeli-born psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky (1937-1996) developed prospect... Read more |
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Sabra
SABRA Word ultimately derived from the Arabic for a variety of prickly pear found in Israel; also the name for a native-born Israeli. Native-born Israelis are described as Sabras because their personality is often thought to be similar to the fruit of the plant: tough and prickly on the... Read more |
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USS Liberty
USS Liberty ¦ ADRIENNE WILMOTH LERNER The Liberty Incident refers to the June 8, 1967, attack on the United States intelligence ship Libertyby Israeli Defense Forces. The Libertywas stationed near the Sinai Peninsula and charged with monitoring Soviet... Read more |
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Shekel
SHEKEL Name of Israeli currency. The word shekel derives from biblical times, when coins were called shekels. Shekel was the term used by leaders of the Zionist movement to denote the price of membership. For the purpose of designating this cost of membership, attendees at the First... Read more |
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