Area To Know
Uganda Plan
What was the area the British offered Jews for a homeland?
Chaim Weizmann
Tefuzot
What is the definition of the Hebrew word for Jews living outside of their homeland?
Ha-Shomer/Shomrim
Who were the guards, who watched the land at night, after the halutzim developed it during the day?
War of Independence
What war was fought because 5 Arab countries invaded the new Jewish state, Israel, less than one day after it was declared independent?
Displaced Persons (DP) Camps
After World War II, where did the Jewish refugees need to go?
Alfred Dreyfus
Who was a Jewish French military leader who was accused of treason?
Aliyah
What is to "move up", meaning to go to holy ground such as Palestine or now Israel.
Pogrom
What is a riot against the Jews? Means "devastation".
Faisel-Weizmann Agreement
What was signed between Emir Faisel and Chaim Weizmann to state that the Jews can have a homeland in Palestine, side-by-side with Arab lands?
Pale of Settlement
Where did the Czar send Jews to live?
Theodor Herzl
Who is known as "the father of Modern Zionism"?
Zionist
What is the belief in a Jewish homeland or state?
White Paper
What was the name of the document which limited Jewish immigration to Palestine to 15,000 a year, for 5 years, then no more immigration?
Balfour's declaration
What was the document Lord Balfour wrote to say Britain supports a homeland for the Jews in Palestine.
Devil's Island
Where was Alfred Dreyfus sent when he was wrongly convicted of selling secrets to the Germans?
Henrietta Szold
Who started Hadassah, a women's zionist organization which brought medical help to the settlers of Palestine and is also nicknamed "the Mother of Israel" because of her work with the Youth Aliyah?
"The Holy Tongue"
What did religious Jews call modern, conversational Hebrew when Eliezar ben Yehuda created it, and, the Orthodox Jews refused to speak it.
Haganah and Irgun
Who were the freedom fighters and protectors of halutzim during terrorist raids by the Arabs?
Grand Mufti of Jerusalem
Who was the anti-Semitic Muslim leader who gave quiet approval for Arab terrorism against the Jews in the 1920's?