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The Goal: To develop in our land a cadre of Jewish guards fit for this task.
The Means: 1. To organize the operating guards in the colonies.
2. To become acquainted with and to prepare in the colonies…
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Hashomer
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Kfar Tavor, Ottoman Palestine
(Kfar Tavor, Israel)
Date:
1909
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At midnight a soft hand touched me: “Get up.” I stepped outside the silent sleeping barracks and saw: Azrael, the angel who reigns over the dead rushed down from the night firmament, all revenge…
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Arnold Zweig
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(France, France)
Date:
1916
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I will speak with my heart while my soul is faint, when the spirit of my understanding wanders through the recesses of my worries. My thoughts surely ask me: What is this? And why is this? What is…
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Unknown
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1882
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Excerpt from the Order of the Prime Minister and Minister of Defense:
. . . It is recommended that all commanders (from platoon leader to head of staff) change their family names—be they German…
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Mordecai Nimtsa-bi
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Haifa, Israel
Date:
1948
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1824 years from the Destruction. Issue no. 36
The rumor about military service for the Jews in our land comes in every European newspaper, in almost the same form as when we presented it in an…
Contributor:
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1893
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We will briefly mention several of his more important military expeditions. In the year 1731, Mr. Boeyé, Officer of the Christian Citizens Militia, received an order from the Council to carry out a…
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David de Isaac Cohen Nassy
Places:
Paramaribo, Dutch Colonial Empire
(Paramaribo, Suriname)
Date:
1788
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Let’s start with risk. The risk of being punished. The risk of being isolated. The risk of being injured or killed. The risk of being scorned. We are all conscripts in one sense or another. For all of…
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Susan Sontag
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New York, United States of America
Date:
2003
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My precious heart, my handsome soldier son,
I write this letter with my blood to you.
Since you’ve had to take the Kaiser’s shilling
our world has turned red of a fiery hue.
The big decisive battle…
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Zseni Várnai
Places:
Budapest, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1912
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Your Excellency, President of the State; Mr. Prime Minister; President of the Hebrew University; Governors; teachers; ladies and gentlemen.
I stand in awe before you, leaders of our generation, here…
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Yitzhak Rabin
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1967
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At an age when most youngsters are struggling to unravel the secrets of mathematics and the mysteries of the Bible; at an age when first love blooms; at the tender age of sixteen, I was handed a rifle…
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Yitzhak Rabin
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1994