The Ashkenazi Revolution

308to wake up after 70 years. When nobody would believe that he was indeedHoni the Circle-drawer, he prayed to God and God took him from this world.Ibn GabirolSolomon ibn Gabirol,also Solomon ben Judah, Shelomo ben Yehuda ibn Gabirol was anAndalucian Hebrew poet and Jewish philosopher with a Neoplatonic bent. He wasborn in Málaga about 1021; died about 1058 in Valencia.I.D.F.The Israel Defense Forces iscommonly known in Israel by the Hebrew acronym Tzahal, are the militaryforces of the State of Israel. They consist of the ground forces, air force andnavy. It is the sole military wing of the Israeli security forces, and has no civilianjurisdiction within Israel. The IDF is headed by its Chief of General Staff,the Ramatkal, subordinate to the Defense Minister of Israel; Rav Aluf BennyGantz has served as Chief of Staff since 2011.Isaac de Pinto Isaac de Pinto (Amsterdam, 1717 -August 14, 1787 in the Hague) was a Dutch Jew of Portuguese origin,a scholar and one of the main investors in the Dutch East India Company.Israel Zangwill Israel Zangwill (January 21, 1864 –August 1, 1926) was a British humorist and writer. Zangwill wrote a veryinfluential novel Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People (1892).The use of the metaphorical phrase melting pot to describe Americanabsorption of immigrants was popularised by Zangwill's play The Melting Pot,a hit in the United States in 1908–1909. The play received its most recentproduction at New York's Metropolitan Playhouse in March 2006.Jabotinsky Ze'ev Jabotinsky (October 18,1880 – August 4, 1940) was a Revisionist Zionist leader, author, orator, soldier,and founder of the Jewish Self-Defense Organization in Odessa. He alsohelped form the Jewish Legion of the British army in World War I.James Baldwin James Arthur Baldwin (August 2,1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet,and social critic.Jewish AgencyThe Jewish Agency for Israel alsoknown as the Sochnut or JAFI, served as the organization in charge ofimmigration and absorption of Jews from the Diaspora into the state of Israel.