๐ฏ๏ธ Michael Smuss (1925โ2025)
One of the last surviving fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising has passed away at the age of 99.
As a young Jew in 1943, he fought the Nazis with Molotov cocktails from the rooftops, refusing to surrender even in the darkest hour.
He survived โ and later dedicated his life in Israel to art, memory, and education, ensuring the world would never forget what happened to our people.
May his memory be a blessing. ๐ฎ๐ฑโก๏ธ
A hero of Israel and the Jewish people.
#NeverForget #WarsawGhetto #Holocaust #Israel #History #AmYisraelChai
One of the last surviving fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising has passed away at the age of 99.
As a young Jew in 1943, he fought the Nazis with Molotov cocktails from the rooftops, refusing to surrender even in the darkest hour.
He survived โ and later dedicated his life in Israel to art, memory, and education, ensuring the world would never forget what happened to our people.
May his memory be a blessing. ๐ฎ๐ฑโก๏ธ
A hero of Israel and the Jewish people.
#NeverForget #WarsawGhetto #Holocaust #Israel #History #AmYisraelChai
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๐ช The Role of Camels in Building Tel Aviv โ c. 1930 ๐ฎ๐ฑโจ
Before cranes and trucks filled the skyline, camels were the silent builders of Tel Avivโs early days.
In the 1930s, they carried stones, timber, and sand across the dunes โ transporting the very materials that shaped what would become Israelโs modern city by the sea.
Each load they carried helped transform the desertโs edge into the vibrant heart of the nation. ๐๐ค
๐ท British Pathe
#Israel #TelAviv #History
Before cranes and trucks filled the skyline, camels were the silent builders of Tel Avivโs early days.
In the 1930s, they carried stones, timber, and sand across the dunes โ transporting the very materials that shaped what would become Israelโs modern city by the sea.
Each load they carried helped transform the desertโs edge into the vibrant heart of the nation. ๐๐ค
๐ท British Pathe
#Israel #TelAviv #History
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Mind-blowing history! ๐คฏ๐
What you are looking at is a page from a Jewish child's school notebook written 1,000 years ago!
Discovered among over 200,000 fragments in the famous Cairo Genizah (a sacred storeroom in the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Egypt), this exact piece is now preserved in the Taylor-Schechter Collection at Cambridge University Library (you can even see their catalog mark, T-S K5.25, in the bottom right corner).
Look closelyโthis child was practicing their Hebrew alphabet (Alef-Bet) and vowels, repeating the letters over and over again, exactly like a 6-year-old learning to write today.
Empires crumble, borders change, and centuries passโbut the language, culture, and traditions of the Jewish people remain completely unbroken. This is beautiful, living proof of eternal continuity.
Am Yisrael Chai! ๐ฎ๐ฑ
#History #JewishHistory #Hebrew
What you are looking at is a page from a Jewish child's school notebook written 1,000 years ago!
Discovered among over 200,000 fragments in the famous Cairo Genizah (a sacred storeroom in the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Egypt), this exact piece is now preserved in the Taylor-Schechter Collection at Cambridge University Library (you can even see their catalog mark, T-S K5.25, in the bottom right corner).
Look closelyโthis child was practicing their Hebrew alphabet (Alef-Bet) and vowels, repeating the letters over and over again, exactly like a 6-year-old learning to write today.
Empires crumble, borders change, and centuries passโbut the language, culture, and traditions of the Jewish people remain completely unbroken. This is beautiful, living proof of eternal continuity.
Am Yisrael Chai! ๐ฎ๐ฑ
#History #JewishHistory #Hebrew
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