The Rosen School of Hebrew Blog

Kazablan (Hebrew: קזבלן) is a very famous and popular Israeli musical film, released in 1974. The film is based on an Israeli Hebrew language play, written by Yigal Mossinson and staged in…

The Palmach, meaning striking force, was established as part of the Haganah on May 19, 1941, due to fears of a German invasion of Palestine. The Palmach is one of the most…

Hayim Nahman Bialik חיים נחמן ביאליק‎ (Hebrew:) of the greatest Hebrew poets of all times. Bialik was one of the pioneers of the Modern Hebrew poets and came to be recognized as Israel’s…

Irgun (in Hebrew:אִרְגּוּן ‎; shorthand for haIrgun haTzva’i haLe’umi  אִרְגּוּן צְבָאִי לְאֻמִּי, “National Military Organization”) was a Zionist paramilitary group that operated in one of the most important times of Israel-history- the British mandate of…

רַק הִשָּׁמֶר לְךָ וּשְׁמֹר נַפְשְׁךָ מְאֹד, פֶּן-תִּשְׁכַּח אֶת-הַדְּבָרִים אֲשֶׁר-רָאוּ עֵינֶיךָ וּפֶן-יָסוּרוּ מִלְּבָבְך” “.כֹּל, יְמֵי חַיֶּיךָ; וְהוֹדַעְתָּם לְבָנֶיךָ, וְלִבְנֵי בָנֶיךָ   “Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou…

Israeli Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism Remembrance Day (In Hebrew: יום הזכרון לחללי מערכות ישראל ונפגעי פעולות האיבה) is Israel’s official Memorial Day. On this day, Israel honors the memory of 22,867…

Hebrew book week (Hebrew: שבוע הספר העברי) is an annual fair, featuring displays sponsored by all Israel’s publishing houses, plus events that include readings, book signings by authors and discounted book prices.  …

Khmelnytsky Uprising (Hebrew: גזרות ת”ח-ת”ט) was the uprising in the Ukrainian territories against the Polish-Lithuanian that began in early 1648 under the leadership of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, a Cossack officer.   The Uprising…

The Balfour Declaration (Hebrew: הצהרת בלפור) that took place the 2/11/1917, was a letter from the British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild, who was the leader of the British…

Yitzhak Rabin (Hebrew: יצחק רבין) was an Israeli politician, statesman, general and the 5th and 11th Prime Minister of Israel. Yitzhak Rabin was born in Jerusalem in 1922. He studied at the…