Ilan Ramon was an Israeli hero. He was a brave pilot in the Israeli Air Force and had fought for Israel. In his life, Ramon always preferred the public interest over his own and brought great honor to Israel and to the world.
Jonathan Geffen
ORT Melton On January - 22 - 2011
Jonathan Geffen is a poet, writer, playwright, journalist and moreover a nice person too. His favorite poet is Natan Alterman. He has spent a lot of time in the Israeli Bohemia. He has put on many famous shows including one called “That is all for now, for now that is all”. It contained stand up skits and criticism against the administration.
Eli Danker
ORT Givatayim On December - 25 - 2010
Eli Danker is an Israeli cinema, theater and TV actor.
Abie Nathan
On December - 25 - 2010
Abie Nathan (1927-2008) was an Israeli humanist and peace activist. He was born in Persia in 1927. At the age of seventeen he became a pilot in the British Air Force. In 1948 he volunteered as a pilot in Machal (Volunteers in Israel’s War of Independence) and stayed in Israel ever since.
13 Years After Rabin’s Assassination
ORT Rabin On December - 25 - 2010
Yitzhak Rabin was born in Jerusalem in 1922. He was a politician and he tried to achieve peace.
A Heroic Israeli Professor
ORT Rehovot On December - 25 - 2010
On April 16, 2007 the unthinkable had happened. An armed man broke into the campus of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, but thanks to one heroic Israeli professor called Liviu Librescu, 22 students had escaped.
Amin Tarif
ORT Horovitz On December - 25 - 2010
Amin Tarif (also spelled Ameen Tareef) was born in 1898 to a religious Druze family in the village of Julis in the upper western Galilee. His father, Mohamed Tarif, was the religious leader and the Kadi (Druze religious judge) of the Druze in the land of Israel and Lebanon for 40 years.
Ben Yehuda
On December - 24 - 2010
Hebrew (Ivrit) is a language spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and used for prayer or study in Jewish communities around the world. Hebrew had not been spoken as a first language for a long period of time: from the second century AD until the 19th century.
A Miraculous Save
4.10.08 On December - 24 - 2010
On February 1st, 2003, the Colombia space shuttle was destroyed during re-entry to Earth. On this space shuttle was the first Israeli astronaut – Ilan Ramon – who died together with the rest of the astronauts on board.
The Prime Ministers of Israel
ORT Sajour On December - 24 - 2010
David Ben Gurion: he was the first Prime Minister of Israel. He is known as one of the world’s greatest leaders in history. He led a people without a country and an army to establish an independent state – a democratic country surrounded by dictatorships.
Herzl’s 150th Birthday
ORT Rabin On December - 24 - 2010
Theodor Herzl, also known in Israel as the “visionary of the State,” lived in Vienna from 1860-1904.
