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This chapter discusses the story of the Jewish people's journey and roots in Israel over the past 2,000 years. It begins by introducing Tali Levy, an Israeli tour guide, who shares photos and experiences from her life in Tel Aviv to provide modern context. The chapter then discusses some of the earliest Jewish settlers and points of entry to Israel, including the Jordan River and port of Jaffa. Important figures from the Bible like Joshua and Simon the Tanner are referenced to connect the modern state to ancient history. The chapter closes by looking at Ben Gurion Airport as a modern point of entry and discussing the Zionist dream of Israel as a homeland for Jews around the world.
02 fbs reader ch2
- 1. chapter 2 the story Follow a NATIVE Israeli as She Takes You on the Journey of the Jewish People to Israel and Her 2,000-Year-Old Roots “If you will it, it is not a dream.” —Theodore Herzl, Father of Zionism Early another Settlers Jewish Hero Where Did They Learn More Enter Israel? Page 28 Page 22
- 3. Chapter 2: The Story 19 the many faces book Search Tali Levy Friends Subscribed Message Worked at The Real Israel Tour Company Studied at The Open University Lives in Tel Aviv, Israel Married to Ari Levy Tali Levy Commented on her album Recent Activity Tour of Israel 2 hours ago Tali shared a photo album: Tour of Israel. Like • Comment Tali and Robbie Olsen are now friends. Write a comment. . . Tali shared a photo album Yoni turns 2! Tali Levy Wondering when social and Tali subscribed to Shelly Yachimovich, Chair economic justice will be seen of Labor Party’s updates. 1 week ago Like • Comment Write a comment. . . Tali Levy So happy to welcome my son Yoni Levy to the world 2 years ago Like • Comment Write a comment. . . Tali Levy Best wedding party ever! Thanks to everyone who came to celebrate with me and Ari 3 years ago Like • Comment Write a comment. . .
- 4. Like • Comment • Share 3 people like this Tali Levy Here is Tel Aviv, where I live with 400,000 of my closest friends! Robbie Green And I thought my follower count was impressive. Tali Levy Ha! My family’s been here in Tel Aviv since my Sabba’s Abba (Granddad’s dad) bought a sand dune in 1909, and our ancestors have lived in this land for over 2,000 years. Robbie Green Must have been quite a story Tali Levy We still tell it! Truth is, I can’t imagine living anywhere else. Robbie Green Where are you right now? Tali Levy You’ll love it! I am bringing you to the boardwalk by the beach. We call it the Tayelet. It’s packed with Israelis of every kind, playing paddle ball, swimming. . . 20 Chapter 2: The Story
- 5. Chapter 2: The Story 21 Like • Comment • Share 3 people like this Solomon Barihun Hey, I was just there yesterday—great pic. Omri Hazan I am the master of paddle ball, or as we call it Matkot. Aaron Katz Best part of Tel Aviv: seeing the diversity of Israel in full force. Robbie Green Now I know where my next movie’s going to be shot! Tali Levy A Aliyah Chart
- 6. Like • Comment • Share 2 people like this Tali Levy Check out this picture of the Jordan River! Jameela Issa Triple like! Robbie Green I can’t believe how small that is! It makes the LA River look like the Nile! Tali Levy Funny you mention the Nile because the Jordan River is also a big part of our history. This is the oldest of many places where Jews entered the land of Israel. Our original port, so to speak. Solomon Barihun My father used to tell me this was the most important river in the Promised Land for us Jews. Robbie Green Too bad that movie has already been made. Tali Levy And like the Nile, the story goes that when Joshua led the Israelites into The Promised Land through the Jordan River, the water was too deep and wide to cross, so he had the Ark of the Covenant brought into the middle of the current, and immediately the waters receded, and the people walked through on dry land. Sounds familiar, no? 22 Chapter 2: The Story
- 7. Chapter 2: The Story 23 Like • Comment • Share 3 people like this Aaron Katz Oh, right! That’s why we were known as Hebrews, Ivrim, which from the Hebrew “La’avor,” means to cross. They “crossed over.” Omri Hazan Nerd alert! Jameela Issa Hmmm. Learn something new every day! Robbie Green You said it, sister!
- 8. Like • Comment • Share 6 people like this Tali Levy One of my favorite places the Port of Jaffa. So pretty, so much culture, and so much history. This was another important point of entry into the Land of Israel. Robbie Green Is that a mosque I see? Omri Hazan I SAID: Nerd alert! Tali Levy What can I say, it’s my job? And yes, Robbie, Jaffa has been important to Muslims, Christians and Jews for as long as anyone can remember. Aaron Katz Like the Bible stories about Jonah and the Whale and Simon the Tanner! Tali Levy Exactly. The story of the Land of Israel is not only the story of the Jews. Jesus of Nazareth was born in the Judean town of Bethlehem, just outside Jerusalem. He was born at a tumultuous time in the history of this land. Robbie Green Best Israeli tour guide ever! 24 Chapter 2: The Story
- 9. Chapter 2: The Story 25 Like • Comment • Share 4 people like this Tali Levy This is the beautifully renovated Ben-Gurion International Airport, and it’s interesting to me because it’s the new “port” of entry for tourists like you or new immigrants like Aaron and Solomon! Solomon Barihun I have a great photo of my family kissing the ground there the first time they came into Israel after being rescued. Aaron Katz Ah, yes. Greatest day of my life. The day I officially became Israeli. Tali Levy Yup, yup. The dream of Zionists that Israel would be the homeland of the Jewish people, and Jews could return to their land. Aaron Katz You should check out this article: “The Ties That Bind: Jews Coming Through the Centuries.” Jameela Issa An airport like this also simply means all people can travel and see the world. Three more months until vacation!
- 10. Like • Comment • Share 4 people like this Omri Hazan Me, too. When I finish my army service that’s where I’ll head. Me and my buddies already have our flight ticket around the world booked. Robbie Green Where are you going, Jameela? Jameela Issa Greece! Omri Hazan I was there a few years back during school vacation. Robbie Green Awesome! The Ties That Bind: Jews Connecting Through the Centuries J ewish civilization was already more than promise between God and the Jewish people in 1,000 years old when the Romans con- the Torah, which dates back thousands of years. quered Judea, but the Jews safeguarded The Hebrew language, the Torah, the laws in their unique heritage for the next two the Talmud, the Jewish calendar, and Jewish millennia. No matter how far they wandered, holidays and festivals all originated in ancient how much they adapted to their host societies Israel and revolve around its seasons, way of life or how much they were persecuted, Jews main- and history. Zion and Jerusalem are mentioned tained their identity. Jews have always identi- 809 times in the Hebrew Bible. When Israel was fied with Zion, the Jewish homeland. It is at re-established in 1948, Jews everywhere came to the core of Jew- embrace Israel ish history, reli- “Jews prefer being prisoners in Jerusalem and once again gious texts and recognize it as identity. to enjoying the freedom they could acquire the center of elsewhere….The love of the Jews for the Jewish life and Many Jews con- Holy Land which they lost… continuity. sider title to the land to be at is unbelievable.” the heart of the —Jesuit Father Michael Naud on his pilgrimage to the Holy Land, 1674 26 Chapter 2: The Story
- 11. Chapter 2: The Story 27 4 check in, check it out The Balfour Declaration
- 12. Golda (Meyerson) Meir the many faces book Search Golda (Meyerson) Meir Worked at Prime Minister, State of Israel Worked at Picking Almonds at Kibbutz Merhavya in the Jezreel Valley Lived in Jerusalem, Israel Lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin From Kiev, Ukraine Golda Meir Appreciative for receiving Recent Activity the Israel Prize 36 years ago Golda likes Yitzhak Rabin’s status. Like • Comment Golda removed Prime Minister, State of Write a comment. . . Israel from her work. Golda and Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger Golda Meir Declared War on Syria, are now friends. Egypt, and Jordan 39 years ago Golda shared an album My Secret Trip to Like • Comment Jordan Disguised as an Arab Woman. Write a comment. . . Golda Meir Appeals to the world to Golda Meir Signed the Israeli Declaration bring the Black September murderers of Independence with 37 others (including at the Munich Olympics to justice only 1 other woman) 38 years ago 64 years ago Like • Comment Like • Comment Write a comment. . . Write a comment. . . 28 Chapter 2: The Story
- 13. Chapter 2: The Story 29 Golda Meir Profile of an Israeli Pioneer G olda Meir was born in Kiev in 1898. Economic hardship forced her family to emigrate to the United States in 1906, where they settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In high school she joined the Zionist group, Poalei Zion (Workers of Zion). She immigrated to British Mandate Palestine in 1921 with her husband, Morris Myerson, and settled in Kibbutz Merhavya. Moving to Tel Aviv in 1924, she became an official of the Histadrut Trade Union and served in a managerial post with the union’s construction corporation, Solel Boneh. Between 1932 and 1934, she worked as an em- issary in the United States, serving as secretary of the Hechalutz women’s organization; she also became sec- retary of the Histadrut’s Action Committee and later the costs of the Israeli War of Indepen- of its policy section. dence and became one of the state’s most effective spokespeople. Ensuring Israel’s Voice Was Heard Worldwide In 1948, David Ben-Gurion appointed When the pre-state Brit- Golda Meir to be a ish Mandatory Authori- member of the Provi- ties imprisoned most of sional Government. the Jewish community’s A few days before senior leadership in 1946, the Declaration of Meir replaced Moshe Shar- Independence, Ben- ett as head of the Jewish Gurion sent her dis- Agency’s Political Depart- guised as an Arab ment, the chief Jewish on a hazardous mis- liaison with the British. sion to persuade Elected to the Executive of King Abdullah of the Jewish Agency, she was Jordan not to attack active in fundraising in the Israel. But the King United States to help cover had already decided
- 14. Golda Meir, continued his army would invade the Jewish state following the British departure. In June 1948, Meir was appointed Israel’s Ambassador to the Soviet Union. Elected to the Knesset as a Mapai member in 1949, she served as Minister of Labor and National Insurance until 1956. In June 1956, she be- came Foreign Minister, a post she held until January 1966. As Foreign Minister, Meir was the architect of Israel’s attempt to create bridges to the emerging inde- pendent countries of Africa via an assistance program based on practical Israeli experience in nation build- ing. She also tried to cement relations with the United States and was successful in creating extensive bilat- eral relations with Latin American countries. Meir Succeeds as Prime Minister Between 1966 and 1968, she served as Secretary General of Mapai, and then as the first Secretary General of the newly formed Labor Party. When Prime Minister Levi Eshkol died suddenly in early 1969, the 71-year- old Meir assumed the post of Premier, becoming October 6, 1973. As the postwar Agran- the world’s third female Prime Minister (after Siri- ant Inquiry Commission established, mavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka and Indira Gandhi the Israeli Defense Forces and the gov- of India). ernment had erred seriously in their as- sessment of Arab intentions. As Prime Minister she inherited Eshkol’s second National Unity Government administration, but this Although she and the Labor Party broke up over the question of continuing the cease- won the elections (postponed due to fire with Egypt in the absence of a peace treaty. She the war until December 31, 1973), she then continued in office with the Alignment (Labor resigned in 1974 in favor of Yitzhak and Mapam), the National Religious Party and the Rabin. She passed away in December Independent Liberals. 1978 and was buried on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. The major event of her administration was the Yom Kippur War, which broke out with massive coordi- nated Egyptian and Syrian assaults against Israel on 30 Chapter 2: The Story
- 15. Chapter 2: The Story 31 THE STORY 1. “A Jew would rather be a prisoner in Zion than a king anywhere else.” Explain this opinion. ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Describe two difficulties faced by Jews living in the Diaspora. ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ 3. “Golda Meir is the ‘classic’ Israeli story.” Explain. ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________