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Tel Aviv-Jaffa
Heb. תֵּל־אָבִיב-יפָוֹ ), second biggest city in Israel, in the central part of the Coastal Plain, created in 1949 by the merger of Tel Aviv and Jaffa. Tel Aviv itself, the "first all-Jewish city" in modern times, was founded in 1909, originally as a garden suburb of Jaffa... Read More »		 Meir, Golda
Mapai leader and Israeli prime minister in 1969-74; member of the First to Eighth Knessets. Meir was born in Kiev, Russia, where her father was a skilled carpenter. In 1906 the family migrated to the United States and settled in Milwaukee... Read More »		 Hanukkah
An annual eight-day festival commencing on the 25th of Kislev. According to a well-founded tradition it was instituted by Judah Maccabee and his followers. The term is found in Hebrew and in Aramaic (ḥanukta) in rabbinic literature... Read More »		 American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Independent, nonpolitical American Jewish relief and welfare organization dedicated to providing both emergency aid and long-term assistance to individual Jews and Jewish communities throughout the world outside North America. Read More »