The Rosen School of Hebrew Blog

Shimon Peres (Hebrew:שמעון פרס) is the ninth President of the State of Israel. Peres served twice as the eighth Prime Minister of Israel and once as Interim Prime Minister and has been…

Yad Vashem (Hebrew: יד ושם) is Israel’s official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. It is located on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. Yad Vashem was established in 1953, as the…

The War of Independence (Hebrew: מלחמת העצמאות), also known as War of Liberation, was the first in a series of wars fought between the State of Israel and its Arab neighbors in…

Chaim Weizmann (Hebrew: חיים וייצמן) was the first President of the State of Israel. He was elected on 1 February 1949. Chaim Weizmann was a remarkable personality: not only the first president…

The HaTikvah (Hebrew:התקווה), meaning hope, is Israel’s hymn. The Hatikvah was written by Imber in Zolochiv in 1878 as a nine-stanza poem named Tikvateynu (“Our Hope”). In this poem, Imber puts into words…

The heroism of the Maccabim (Hebrew:גבורת המכבים) is a well known Chanukah story. We can find the story in the two Books of Maccabees. These books are the only ancient source that…

During the years of the state of Israel, there have been many stories about Israeli spies. The most famous one is the story of Eli Cohen. Eli Cohen (Hebrew: אלי כהן) worked…

Black Hebrews (Hebrew:הכושים העבריים), also known as the African Hebrew Israelite Nation of Jerusalem, is a small spiritual group of 5,000 members living in Dimona, Israel. Some of them also live in Arad…

The Four Mothers  (Hebrew: ארבעת האמהות) was established shortly after the February 1997 crash of two IDF transport helicopters ferrying troops to Lebanon. Seventy-three soldiers died in the disaster. For the movement’s…

In the summer of 2011, we have witnessed the largest social protest in Israel’s History. However, social protest is not a new thing in Israel. The Black Panthers movement was an Israeli…