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Moshe Dayan Moshe Dayan
Moshe Dayan , 1915-81, Israeli military leader, b. Palestine. After attending Senior Agricultural School in Nahalal, Dayan fought with the Haganah (Jewish militia) throughout the 1930s and with the British Army during World War II. He lost an eye in battle in 1941, necessitating the eye patch that... Read more
Levi Eshkol Levi Eshkol
Levi Eshkol , 1895-1969, Israeli statesman, third prime minister of Israel, b. Ukraine; originally named Levi Shkolnik. In World War I he served in the Jewish Legion, which supported the British forces in Palestine. A leader in the Histradrut (General Federation of Jewish Labor) and the Mapai party,... Read more
Six-Day War Six-Day War
Six-Day War (‘June War’, 1967) Third of the Arab-Israeli Wars. Israeli forces, led by Moshe Dayan, rapidly defeated the four Arab states (Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Iraq). Israel gained control of the old city of Jerusalem, Jordanian territory on the West Bank (of the River Jordan),... Read more
Moshe Safdie Moshe Safdie
Moshe Safdie , 1938-, Israeli-Canadian architect, b. Haifa. He grew up in Israel, moved to Canada with his family at 15, studied architecture at McGill Univ. and with Louis Kahn , and later opened an office in Montreal. Safdie attracted early acclaim as the designer of Montreal's revolutionary ... Read more
David Ben-Gurion David Ben-Gurion
David Ben-Gurion , 1886-1973, Israeli statesman, b. Poland as David Grün. He settled in Palestine in 1906. He was an active Zionist and during World War I helped to organize the Jewish Legion in support of the British. In the struggle to found an independent Jewish state in Palestine he... Read more
Genesis Genesis
Genesis , 1st book of the Bible, first of the five books of the Law (the Pentateuch or Torah) ascribed by tradition to Moses. Beginning with two accounts of the creation and of humankind, the narrative relates the initial disobedience of the man and the woman and their consequent expulsion from... Read more
Natan Sharansky Natan Sharansky
Anatoly Borisovich Shcharansky For nine years (1977-86), Anatoly Shcharansky (born 1948) personified the desperate plight of many Soviet Jews. Caught in the vice of great power politics, Shcharansky suffered a prolonged and difficult imprisonment because of his wish to emigrate to Israel and... Read more
Kenilworth Castle Kenilworth Castle
Kenilworth castle (War.) combined strong fortifications with palatial residential accommodation. From the first the castle seems to have included extensive water defences and these were enlarged during John's reign when it was in royal hands. The effectiveness of the defences was demonstrated when... Read more
Parrhasius Parrhasius
Parrhasius , fl. c.400 BC, Greek painter. He was born in Ephesus but settled in Athens and is classed with the Attic painters. One of the greatest painters of Greece, a contemporary and rival of Zeuxis, he is credited by ancient writers with having been the first painter to attain perfect symmetry... Read more
Paul Kruger Paul Kruger
Paul Kruger (Stephanas Johannes Paulus) , 1825-1904, South African Transvaal statesman, known as Oom Paul. As a child he accompanied (1836) his family northward from the Cape Colony in the Great Trek that was eventually to cross the Vaal River and establish the Dutch-speaking republic of ... Read more

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