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What do we call a person who moves to another country to in order to build a life and live there?
Immigrant
Kibbutz is a big settlement.
False
Yagur is one of the largest kibbutzim in Israel.
True
In what decades did Israel receive most immigrants?
1940's and 1990's.
What country ruled Israel in 1922?
British mandate
What does the word community mean?
A group of people who live and work together, and support each other.
Name some jobs that were (or still are) popular on a kibbutz.
Farming, manufacturing, cooking, building, secretary, nurser.
In what century did immigrants come to build Yagur?
20th century.
Name one dream the immigrants had.
To start a new life, living in security, establish a Jewish state.
How many Jewish people live in the USA nowadays?
Around 7 million.
What does settlement mean?
A place where people establish a community.
Which is not a kibbutz?
Yagur, Usha, Kfar Hasidim, Ramat Yohanan.
Kfar Hasidim
Name one reason why people left their countries to go to Yagur.
War, poverty, fear, antisemitism, Zionism.
What is one problem immigrants face when arriving in a new country?
Language, job, culture, cuisine, being away from all the people they know.
What difficulties and challenges did the Jews encounter during the 1930's and 1940's?
Swamps, lack of medicine and infrastructure, reaction from English officials who did not let them settle in Israel.
What does the word “sacrifice” mean?
Give up something for something more important
People who live in Kibbutzim have no private property.
False
Name one nearby city or landmark
Mount caramel
What caused so many Jewish people to immigrate to Israel?
The Holocaust, antisemitism, Zionism, financial difficulty, religion.
What was the first kibbutz in Israel?
Degania Alef, founded in 1910.
What does the word pioneer mean?
A person who is one of the first ones to do something new
Name a few countries from which Jewish people have emigrated since the 1940's.
Poland, Romania, Iraq, Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia, USA, France, Germany, Bulgaria.
In 1946, British soldiers came to Yagur on a day known as "black Saturday." What did they find?
Hidden weapons.
In what year was Yagur Established?
1922
Until the late 1950's most Jews in Israel lived in Kibbutzim or Moshavim.
False.