Happy 64th B-day,ISrael

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Israel with pride !
Photos Negev desert, Dead Sea, Ein Gedi,
Ein Hod, Jerusalem, Masada, Ashdod, Beer Sheva,
Omer Music Our tiny land Artzeinu
haktantonet Rami Kleinstein
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David Ben-Gurion was the first Prime Minister of
Israel. He is considered the "father" of modern
Israel. Ben-Gurion was also named one of Time
Magazines 100 Most Important People of the
Century.
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In 1969, Golda Meir became Israels first and
the world's third woman to hold the office of
Prime Minister. She was described as the "Iron
Lady" of Israeli politics.
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Marcel Iancu was a Romanian and Israeli visual
artist and architect who contributed to the
early development of the Israeli art. He is also
well-known as the co-inventor of Dadaism (new
ways of experimenting with abstract sight and
thought). After 1953, his work centered on the
establishment of Ein Hod, as an art colony.
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Reuven Rubin was a Romanian-born Israeli painter
and Israel's first ambassador to Romania. He was
one of the founders of the new Eretz Yisrael
style. His themes were the biblical landscape,
folklore and people. Many of his paintings are
about Jerusalem and the Galilee.
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Yaacov Agam is a sculptor. His work is usually
abstract, kinetic art with movement and viewer
participation. Agam frequently uses light and
sound. His works are displayed in many public
places. This fountain is in Tel Aviv.
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Ilana Goor is an international artist known for
her uniquely styled sculptures, furniture,
lighting, jewelry, and accessories. She works
and lives in a restored 18th-century house
located in the very heart of ancient Jaffa which
overlooks the Mediterranean. She has turned part
of it into a museum of her sculptures in wood,
stone, and metal, alongside works of art from her
private collection. In the 18th century, the
house was used as the first khan for Jewish
pilgrims en route to Jerusalem.
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Ephraim Kishon - author, dramatist, screenwriter,
and film director. He is one of the most
widely-read contemporary satirists in the world.
Kishon's books have been translated into 37
languages . He wrote, directed and produced five
feature films (all of them comedic/satirical
movies). Three movies were nominated for major
international awards (The Golden Globe award)
two were nominated for the Oscar Sallah Shabati
and Ha-Shoter Azoulay.
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Naomi Ragen is an American-born novelist,
playwright and journalist who has lived in
Jerusalem since 1971, and who writes regularly to
her fans in her mailing list about Israel and
Jewish issues. Naomi has published eight
internationally best selling novels, and is the
author of a hit play (Women's Minyan) which has
been performed more than 500 times in Israel's
National Theatre (Habimah) as well as in the
United States and Argentina.
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Amos Oz was in recent years a serious candidate
to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. He has
published 35 books since 1965, including 13
novels, four volumes of short stories and
novels, childrens books and nine books
containing essays and articles.Amos Oz is known
for books like A Perfect Peace (1982), Black
Box (1987), How to Cure a Fanatic (2006), A
Tale of Love and Darkness (2003), Scenes from
Village Life (2009). In 2007, his book "A Tale
of Love and Darkness" was nominated as one of the
ten most important books since the creation of
the State of Israel.
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Colonel Ilan Ramon was the first Israeli
astronaut. In 2003, he died as a member of the
crew on the space shuttle Columbia.
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon Awarded the Nobel prize for
Literature, 1966 His works deal with the
conflict between the traditional Jewish life and
language and the modern world.. They also
attempt to revive the fading traditions of the
European shtetl (village).
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Avram Hershko Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 2004
Daniel Kahneman Nobel Prize for Economics, 2002
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Aaron Ciechanover Nobe Prixe for Chemistry,
2004
Robert Aumann Nobel Prize for Economics, 2005
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Ada E. Yonath Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 2009
Dan Shechtman Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 2011
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Daniel Oren has conducted at the Royal Opera
House in Covent Garden, the Metropolitan in New
York, the Arena in Verona, the Vienna Staatsoper,
the Bastille in Paris and the opera houses of
Rome, Trieste, Genoa, Florence, Parma, Turin,
Venice, Buenos Aires, San Francisco, Tokyo,
Huston, Washington and many others.Oren also
conducted in Masada Nabuco, Aida, Carmen
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Itzhak Perlman is a violinist, conductor, and
instructor of master classes. He is regarded as
one of the preeminent violinists of the 20th and
early-21st centuries. Perlman has also played
jazz and klezmer. He has been a soloist for a
number of movie scores, such as the 1993 film
Schindler's List and Memoirs of a Geisha., along
with cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
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Shlomo Mintz and Pinchas Zukerman are violin
virtuosos, and conductors. They regularly appear
with orchestras and conductors on the
international scene and are heard in recitals and
concerts around the world.
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Yoav Talmi,conductor and composer. Music
Director, San Diego Symphony19871996.Chief
Conductor, Hamburg Symphony Orchestra
2000-2004.Talmi's compositions include an Elegy
for Strings, Timpani and Accordion ("Dachau
Reflections").
Guy Braunstein ,violonist, developed a solo and
chamber music career. He performed as a soloist
with leading orchestras around the world. In
2000, Braunstein was appointed as the
Concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic
Orchestra.
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Ivry Gitlis - violinist. He has performed with
the world's top orchestras (New York
Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna
Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Israel
Philharmonic), and many of his recordings are
considered classics.
Violinist Gil Shaham is internationally
recognized by audiences and critics alike as one
of todays most virtuosic and engaging classical
artists.
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Haim Topol came to greatest prominence in the
role of Tevye, the milkman, in the long-running
musical show Fiddler on the Roof. He later
starred in the 1971 film version.In 1972, Topol
won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for a
Best Actor Oscar for his performance in the film.
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Natalie Portman is a very talented
Israeli-American actress. Won an Academy Award
for Best Actress in 2011 in the film Black
Swan.
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Ofra Haza , a very popular singer, was invited to
sing in front of the Pope, as well as on other
major and important occasions such as the Nobel
Prize ceremonies and the peace deal signing in
Israel. Her music fused elements of Eastern and
Western instrumentation, orchestration and
dance-beat. She became successful in Europe and
the Americas during her singing career, andhas
earned many platinum and gold discs.
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Achinoam Nini, also known by her professional
name Noa, is a leading Israeli international
concert and recording artist. Noa has performed
in Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall in New
York City, Olympia in Paris, Rome's Colosseum. In
2000, Noa recorded the theme song of "Life Is
Beautiful", Roberto Benigni's Oscar award-winning
film.
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• The popular ICQ instant-messaging program was
  created by four Israeli computer geeks
• Yair Goldfinger, Arik Vardi, Sefi Vigiser and
  Amnon Amir four men who have really changed the
  world.
• For the first time, it was possible for people to
  communicate with their friends
• and know when their friends are online.

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In 1999, Dov Moran, an Israeli engineer and
entrepreneur, along with his colleagues at
MSystems, invented an innovative device that
could be connected to a computer quickly and
easily. The device did not require a preliminary
installation process and it operated using a
standard connection that exists in any modern
computer. It was small, reliable and enabled
unlimited expansion of the scope of memory.
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VoIP technology enables telephone calls to be
transmitted via the internet. The internet was
originally designed to transfer computer data,
thus a special application that would allow the
transfer of telephone calls via the internet had
to be developed. This type of innovative
software was first developed in 1995 by Alon
Cohen, Lior Haramati, Ofer Shem-Tov, Elad Sion,
Opher Kahane and Dror Tirosh, Israeli software
developers at VocalTec.
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• In 1995, Israeli entrepreneur, Amnon Ovadia,
  identified the need for an online English-Hebrew
  dictionary that did not interrupt the reading
  process.
• As a result, Babylon, Ltd. was founded in 1997
• and launched the first version of
  Babylon,
• a computer dictionary and translation
  program.

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Drip irrigation - the system that is based on
using plastic pipes that release small amounts of
water next to roots of plants - was developed by
the Israeli engineer, Simcha Blas. The
invention caused a revolution in agriculture and
has been adopted by farmers in many countries
. Blass and his son Yeshayahu and the
desert-based Kibbutz Hatzerim (near Beer Sheva )
established Netafim Irrigation Company.
Production began in 1966. Netafim engineers
working with Blass, developed the online dripper
- indeed allowing the desert to bloom.
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Aleksandr Averbukh won three gold medals in the
pole vault at European championships (2000 -
indoor, 2002 and 2006) as well as two medals at
the World championships (1999 and 2001).
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Shahar Pe'er, (left) earned a career-high singles
ranking of World No. 11, which she achieved on
January 31, 2011 (it is the highest ranking ever
for an Israeli singles tennis player, male or
female). The doubles team of Andy Ram and Joni
Erlich (below) won the quarterfinals in 2003 at
Wimbledon and in September of the same year, the
duo's first tournament was won in the Thailand
Open. They ranked (World No.7 team ) in 2006 and
2008 as the Australian Open champions. Dudi Sela
(right) reached a career-high singles ranking of
World No. 29 in July 2009. He is currently
Israel's top men's singles player.
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Athens Olympic Games in Greece, August 25, 2004.
Windsurfer Gal Fridman became the first Israeli
competitor to win an Olympic Games gold medal.

• PhotoPeople's Daily Online

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In 1992 at the Barcelona Olympic games, judo
champion , Yael Arad, won a silver medal and
became the first Israeli to win an Olympic
medal.
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Tal Brody former basketball player. In 1979,
he was awarded the country's highest civilian
honor, the Israel Prize. In 1977, he led tiny
Israel's basketball team to the European Cup
Basketball Championship. Along the way, his team
defeated the heavily favored CSKA Moscow.
Brody's famous remark upon beating the Soviets
"We are on the map! And we are staying on the map
not only in sports, but in everything "
became a part of Israeli culture
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25 April 2012
In Israel, in order to
be a realist, you must believe in
miracles David Ben-Gurion
Photos Noemi.Ervin,Adi,Liviu Negev desert,
Dead Sea, Ein Gedi, Ein Hod, Jerusalem, Masada,
Ashdod, Beer Sheva, Omer