Born in the San Francisco Bay area, Magnes was ordained as a rabbi in 1900 and helped found such U.S. organizations as the American Jewish Committee and American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. An advocate of a binational state in Palestine, he immigrated there in 1922 and never stopped seeking an agreement with the Arabs. He was the first chancellor and president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Teen participants have shown uniform enthusiasm for their interactive engagements with peers at Center for Israel Education programs. See their responses in their own words.
Sadat tells the Israeli people and world that he seeks a just and durable peace, which is not a separate peace, between Israel and Egypt. He equates statehood for the Palestinians as their right to return.
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August 2025 polling data about American attitudes toward Israel and Hamas and about American political party partisanship toward Israel over the past decade.
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Israel State Archives — Selected Record Groups The Israel State Archives in Jerusalem are a treasure-trove for those seeking to understand Israel’s evolution. Successive archival groups reference Israel over the past century. More than the…
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September 28, 1977 Memorandum of conversations between President Jimmy Carter and Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam and between Khaddam and U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, White House, Washington Source: Foreign Relations of the…
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