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Compulsory Education Law Is Implemented

Looking Back / 09.18.2018

Compulsory Education Law Is Implemented
Center for Israel Education September 18, 1949 The Compulsory Education Law which had been passed on September 12th, enters into law.  The law required that all children between the ages of 5 and 15...
Tales From Israel – Millions And Millions Of Israeli Cats

Blogs From Israel / 09.18.2018

Tales From Israel – Millions And Millions Of Israeli Cats
When you walk the streets of any Israeli community, the very popular children’s book Millions of Cats, by Wanda Gag, springs to mind as you see the proliferation of felines. Even if you read it decade...
U-M Professor Denies Recommendation Letter To Student Studying In Israel

Ann Arbor / 09.17.2018

U-M Professor Denies Recommendation Letter To Student Studying In Israel
Studying Abroad In Israel In a screenshot shared by CAMERA on Campus, the Jewish News recently learned that the organization alleges that a University of Michigan professor refused to write a letter ...
Israel and Egypt Sign Camp David Accords

Looking Back / 09.17.2018

Israel and Egypt Sign Camp David Accords
Center for Israel Education September 17, 1978 Camp David Accords are signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minster Menachem Begin under the mediation of President Jimmy Carter....
Learning How To Drive Again

Blogs From Israel / 09.17.2018

Learning How To Drive Again
Like many of you readers in Detroit, I got my driver’s license in the Motor City when I was 16. My parents taught me how to drive. We’d spend hours practicing U-turns on Woodward Avenue and merging on...
Dayan and Tuhami Engage In Secret Talks

Looking Back / 09.16.2018

Dayan and Tuhami Engage In Secret Talks
Center for Israel Education September 16, 1977 Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan conducts secret talks with Egyptian Deputy Prime Minister Hassan Tuhami in Morocco. Tuhami (and other high ranking...
Richard Goldstone Presents UN Report

Looking Back / 09.15.2018

Richard Goldstone Presents UN Report
Center for Israel Education September 15, 2009 Judge Richard Goldstone, a South African Jew, who had previously served as the chief UN prosecutor in both Yugoslavia and Rwanda, presents his UN spons...
Palmach Integrates with IDF

Looking Back / 09.14.2018

Palmach Integrates with IDF
Center for Israel Education September 14, 1948 Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion summons dozens of commanders of the Palmach for a conference at which he announces the dismantling of the elite unit an...
Shimon Peres Becomes Prime Minister

Looking Back / 09.13.2018

Shimon Peres Becomes Prime Minister
Center for Israel Education September 13, 1984 Shimon Peres becomes Israel’s Eighth Prime Minister as he forms a coalition government comprised of Alignment (which would become the Labor party in 19...
Moshav Nahalal Is Founded

Looking Back / 09.11.2018

Moshav Nahalal Is Founded
Center for Israel Education September 11, 1921 Moshav Nahalal, the first moshav ha’ovdim (workers settlement), is founded in the northwest Jezreel valley about halfway between Haifa and Afula. The m...
Eilat Mazar Is Born

Looking Back / 09.10.2018

Eilat Mazar Is Born
Center for Israel Education September 10, 1956 Archaeologist Eilat Mazar is born. Mazar is a third generation Israeli archaeologist and is most well known for her work at the City of David site ...
PLO And Israel Recognize Each Other’s Existence

Looking Back / 09.09.2018

PLO And Israel Recognize Each Other’s Existence
Center for Israel Education September 9, 1993 After nine months of secret contacts mediated by Norwegian diplomats, the PLO and Israel recognize each others’ existence. In the agreement, the PLO agr...
Major General Israel Tal Passes Away

Looking Back / 09.08.2018

Major General Israel Tal Passes Away
Center for Israel Education September 8, 2010 Major General Israel Tal passes away at the age of 85. Tal is best known for being the head of the 1970 committee which designed and developed the Merka...
Hebrew Collegiate Institute 2018/2019 At The WJCC

News / 09.07.2018

Hebrew Collegiate Institute 2018/2019 At The WJCC
Hebrew Collegiate Institute (HCI) is open to teenagers in grades 9 through 12 who are interested in learning about a variety of Jewish/Israeli history, current events and culture, including the import...
David Ben-Gurion Arrives In Jaffa

Looking Back / 09.07.2018

David Ben-Gurion Arrives In Jaffa
Center for Israel Education September 7, 1907 David Gruen, who in 1910 would change his name to David Ben-Gurion, and his then girlfriend Rachel Nelkin arrive in Jaffa with a group of other young ad...
United By Food

News / 09.06.2018

United By Food
A new festival this fall, formed by a partnership among three local organizations, will celebrate Windsor’s rich cultural diversity and its sense of unity, according to its organizers. “This is rea...
Faces & Places – Rub-a-Dub, Shalom Club And Detroit River Cruise

Community / 09.06.2018

Faces & Places – Rub-a-Dub, Shalom Club And Detroit River Cruise
Check out this gallery of photos from ORT's Rub-a-Dub fundraiser, The Shalom Club and the Annual Detroit River Cruise! Rub-a-Dub ORT Michigan’s largest fundraiser, Rub-a-Dub, took place Aug. 21 at F...
Guest Column: Rosh Hashanah Greetings

Columns / 09.06.2018

Guest Column: Rosh Hashanah Greetings
The High Holidays are my favorite time of year because they are a time of coming together as a community. In fact, many Jewish laws and traditions focus upon not being alone and upon coming together. ...
Essay: Remember The 6 Million

Letters & Viewpoints / 09.06.2018

Essay: Remember The 6 Million
We are in the holy month of Tishrei. It includes Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot. On Rosh Hashanah, HaShem (God) writes in the Book of Life for the coming year: Who should live? Who should die? W...
Israeli Olympic Team Is Massacred In Munich

Looking Back / 09.05.2018

Israeli Olympic Team Is Massacred In Munich
Center for Israel Education September 5, 1972 During the Summer Munich Olympics in Germany, 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team are killed after nine are taken hostage by Black September, a Pales...
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