Happy 66th B-day,Israel!

Drága hazánk, Izrael, kívánunk neked boldog, hosszú életet.Kívánunk neked békét, szeretetet és

megértést lakóid között és a népek családjában. Kívánjuk neked – és magunknak –

hogy virágozz.Kívánjuk a legjobbakat a világon!

“Izraelben aki realista akar lenni, annak hinnie

kell a csodákban”David Ben-Gurion

Dragă patrie, Israel, Iţi dorim o viață fericită, lungă.

Iţi dorim pace, dragoste și înțelegere între oameni și între popoare.

Iţi dorim să înfloreşti. Iţi dorim tot ce este mai bun în lume!

“In Israel ca să fii realist, trebuie să crezi în

miracole" David Ben-Gurion

ליום הולדתך ארצי,אנו מאחלים לך חיים מאושרים

וארוכים. מאחלים לך שלום, אהבה והבנה

בין האנשים בארץ ובעולם. אנו מאחלים לך לפרוח.

אנו מאחלים לך את כל הטוב שבעולם!

"בישראל כדי להיות ראליסט אתה חייב להאמין בנסים"

דוד בן גוריון

Dear Israel, We wish you a happy, long, long life.

We wish you Peace!

Love and understanding!

We wish you to flourish! We wish you all the best

in the world.

“In Israel, in order to be a realist

you must believe in miracles”

David Ben-Gurion

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

Magazine's 100 Most Important People of the Century.

In 1969 Golda Meir became Israel's first and the world's third woman to hold the Prime Minister office .She was described as the "Iron Lady" of

Israeli politics.

“Optimists and pessimists die the same way. They just live differently. I prefer to live as an optimist.”

Shimon Peres, 2005

Shimon Peres is the ninth and current President of the State of Israel.He served twice as the Prime Minister of Israel and once as Interim Prime Minister, and has been a

member of 12 cabinets in a political career spanning over 66 years.At the age of 90, Peres is the world's oldest head of state.

Shimon Peres is the author of 11 booksHe won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize together with Yitzhak Rabin for the peace talks that he participated in

as Israeli Foreign Minister, producing the Oslo Accords.

Yitzhak Rabin was a politician, statesman and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office,

1974–77 and 1992 until his assassination in 1995.In 1964 he was appointed Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense

Forces (IDF)Following his retirement from the IDF he became ambassador to

the United States beginning in 1968, serving for five years.

Menachem Begin was an Israeli politician, founder of Likud and the sixth Prime Minister of the State of Israel.

Begin’s most significant achievement as Prime Minister was the signing of a peace treaty with Egypt in 1979, for which he and

Anwar Sadat shared the Nobel Prize for Peace.

Yosef "Tommy" Lapid, born as Tomislav Lampel to a family of Hungarian Jewish descent, was an Israeli radio

and television presenter, journalist, politician and government minister known for his sharp tongue and acerbic

wit.

Beer Sheva

Independence Day Posters at the Ben Gurion airport

terminal, 2008

Ron Arad , was an Israeli Air Force combat navigator officer who is officially classified as missing in action since October 1986, but is widely presumed dead.

Arad was lost on a mission over Lebanon, captured by Shiite group Amal and was later handed over to the Hezbollah.

Yonatan "Yoni" Netanyahu was the commander of the elite Israeli army commando unit Sayeret Matkal. He was killed in

action

during Operation Entebbe in Uganda.

He was awarded the Medal of Distinguished Service for his conduct in the Yom Kippur War. His younger brother,

Benjamin Netanyahu, is the current Prime Minister of Israel.

Teddy Kollek served as the mayor of Jerusalem from 1965 to 1993.

During his tenure, Jerusalem developed into a modern city, especially after its reunification in

1967. He was once called "the greatest builder of

Jerusalem since Herod."

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Keren Leibovitch is a three-time world champion, a five-time European

champion, a holder of three world records (for the 100-meter and 200-meter

backstroke and the 100-meter freestyle), and an eight-time Paralympics medal

winner.

Prof.Shaul Ladany ,world-record-holding racewalker, Bergen-Belsen

survivor, Munich Massacre survivor, Professor of Industrial Engineering

Zeruya Shalev, a bestselling author, has published five novels, a book of poetry and a children's book. Her novels have received critical acclaim both in Israel and abroad. They have been translated into 21 languages and were bestsellers

in several countries.

Abraham's well, Beer Sheva

Dani Karavan is an Israeli sculptor best known for site specific memorials and

monuments which merge into the environment. The monument in the photo is

the Negev memorial monument in Beersheva.

Artist Dina Merhav produces skyscraping sculptures of birds and

angels, which can be seen in outdoor spaces all over the world.

In the photo :“ Fishbird “ ,

Statue Road Hazerim

Nahum Gutman , a Bessarabia -born Israeli painter, sculptor, and author, helped pioneer a distinctively Israeli style, moving away from the European influences of his teachers.

He worked in many different media: oils, watercolors, gouache and pen and ink.

Andrei Călăraşu was born in 1922 in Botosani, Romania as Bernard Grupper.

Holocaust survivor, famous theatre and film director both in Romania and Israel.

In 1965, Andrei immigrated to Israel.He began to work at the Beit Zvi School for the Performing Arts, where he established the Film and Television track. He was a member of the

founding team of Israel Television. He worked in television and in radio, for some 30 years,

directing hundreds of programs.

He died and was buried in Tel Aviv on Friday, 3 May 2014

May he rest in Peace !

Eli Ben Zaken, the founder of Domaine du Castel family winery was one of two Israelis to be honored with the French National

Order of Agricultural Merit.The kosher wines produced at Domaine Du Castel near

Jerusalem, are known and appreciated all around the world.

Stef Wertheimer is a German-born Israeli business magnate, philanthropist and former politician. He is a

former Member of the Knesset.

Wertheimer founded four industrial parks in Israel, with the goal of fostering economic growth and job creation to help create stability in the region. One of the parks is

in Omer, in the Negev.

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.

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.

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 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 .

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.

Avram Hershko, Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 2004

Daniel Kahneman, Nobel

Prize for Economics, 2002

Aaron Ciechanover ,

Chemistry, 2004

Robert Aumann, Nobel Prize for Economics,

2005

Dan Shechtman,Nobel Prize for

Chemistry, 2011

Ada E. Yonath ,Nobel Prize for

Chemistry, 2009

Michael Levitt Nobel Prize in Chemistry

2013

Arieh Warshel, Nobel Prize in Chemistry

2013

Daniel Oren has conducted at the Royal Opera House 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.

At Masada : Nabuco,Aida,Carmen

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.

Arik Einstein, singer, songwriter, actor, and screenwriter, was a pioneer of Israeli rock music and

is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential Israeli singer and musician of all time.

Beer Sheva

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.

Shlomo Gronich , singer, songwriter, pianist, composer, arranger, bandleader. He is acclaimed internationally

for his numerous multi-cultural projects with The Sheba Choir consisting of young immigrants from

Ethiopia. Shlomo Gronich composes classical music, performed by

leading ensembles and orchestras also jazz, world music, and music for cinema, theater and dance. He

received many prizes and awards for his contribution to musical life in Israel.

5 May 2014

Photos – Noemi.Ervin, LiviuNegev desert , Dead Sea ,Ein Gedi ,

Jerusalem,Masada,Ashdod, Beer Sheva,Omer

From the net – credit to their owners

Info : Wikipediahttp://israel21c.org/

Music : Hora mamtera

This is the third presentation in this series. Every year I make changes in the list of people who have had an impact

on the development of our country.

השלישית בסדרה זו. בכל תצגמזוהי ה תשנה אני עושה השינויים ברשימ

יש להם השפעה על היה ואנשים שהישראל. ת של מדינההתפתחות