INTRODUCTION Quote: “ ‘We decided to continue the workshops, this time in both Hebrew and Arabic,’ says Godder. The meetings were open to women from Jaffa and included movement exercises drawing on Godder’s release-based practice and Garabli’s expertise in Palestinian Dabke. ‘At the end of the workshop, we would sit around stretching and everyone…
INTRODUCTION Quote: “To believe we can supply food with this land was a dream,” says Danielle Abraham, director of the International Friends of Volcani. “To undertake agriculture successfully, a country needs four key resources: water, land, human resources, and export markets. With none of these resources readily available, Israel was forced to invest in…
A few months after the Abraham Accords were signed in September 2020, Morocco signed…
We’ve all heard about fish stories (“It was HUGE but it got away at the last second!”). Well, this is a strawberry story: It was HUGE but it didn’t get away. In fact, after it was grown (10.19 ounces), it was stored away in Israeli farmer Ariel Chahi’s freezer. The amazing strawberry won Chahi a…
WOW! FACTS
Inventor of the mobile phone, “Father of the Internet,” inventor of the video game cosole, inventor fo the laser, inventor of the gramophone, creator of the Barbie Doll, creator of the cruise ship, “Father of Immunology,” inventor fo the modern condom (!), a prime minister of the U.K., a three-time prime minister of France, a president of Switzerland and the primary financier of the American Revolution?
We knew you could guess… all of them are (or were) Jews!
To learn about these and many more AmazingJews, watch a compilation put together by JewOfTheWeek.net in 2015 and posted on YouTube. >>
Nobel Prizes
Although Jews are less than two-tenths of one percent of the world’s population, more than 20% of Nobel Prize winners have been Jewish. Source: Google
Polio Vaccine
Millions and millions of people worldwide have been spared the ravages of poliomyelitis — including paralysis and even death — thanks to research conducted by Jewish scientist Dr. Jonas Salk and his team. The Salk vaccine entered widespread use in the U.S. in 1955. Source: Wikipedia
Miss Liberty
The words “…give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses…” on the Statue of Liberty were written by Emma Lazarus, a Jew. Source: BuzzFeed
Blue Jeans
Levi Strauss, an immigrant from Germany, invented his blue jeans in 1873. Source: BuzzFeed
Start-Up Nation
Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship in the world. It has the highest rate of entrepreneurship among women and people over 55 in the world. Source: BuzzFeed