The Ashkenazi Revolution

325the standard succession of public offices, holding the consulship in 51 AD,Vespasian became more reputed as a successful military commander,participating in the Roman invasion of Britain in 43, andsubjugating Judaea during the Jewish rebellion of 66 AD.Vilna GaonElijah ben Shlomo ZalmanKramer, known as the Vilna Gaon or Elijah of Vilna and simply byhis Hebrew acronym Gra ("Gaon Rabbenu Eliyahu"), (b. Vilnius April 23, 1720,d. Vilaus October 9, 1797), was a Talmudist, halachist, kabbalist, and theforemost leader of non-hasidic Jewry of the past few centuries. He iscommonly referred to in Hebrew as ha'Gaon ha'Chasid mi'Vilna, "thesaintly genius from Vilnius."Voice of IsraelIsrael Radio International is theofficial international broadcasting station of Israel.Wadi SalibThe Wadi Salib riots were a seriesof street demonstrations and acts of vandalism in the Wadi Salib neighborhoodof Haifa, Israel, in 1959, sparked by charges of ethnic discriminationagainst Mizrahi Jews.WeizmannChaim AzrielWeizmann, (November 27,1874 – November 9,1952) was a Zionist leader,President of the Zionist Organization, and the first President of the State of Israel.He was elected on 1 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952.Weizmann was also a chemist who developed the ABE-process, whichproduces acetone through bacterial fermentation. He founded the WeizmannInstitute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.White Book of 1939The White Paper of 1939, alsoknown as the MacDonald White Paper after Malcolm MacDonald,the British Colonial Secretary who presided over it, was a policy paper issued bythe British government under Neville Chamberlain in which the idea of partitioningthe Mandate for Palestine, as recommended in the Peel Commission Report of1937, was abandoned in favour of creating an independent Palestinegoverned by Palestinian Arabs and Jews in proportion to their numbers in thepopulation by 1949 (section I). A limit of 75,000 Jewish immigrants was setfor the five-year period 1940-1944, consisting of a regular yearly quota of10,000, and a supplementary quota of 25,000, spread out over the sameperiod, to cover refugee emergencies. After this cut-off date, further