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Abigail (Avigayil)
אֲבִיגַיִל Abigail was Nabal's wife, and after her husband's death - one of King David's wives. Female
Abijah (Aviya, Aviyah, Abiah)
אֲבִיָּה The name seems to be composed of the word "אָבִי" (avi, "my father") and the letters יה (the name of God). FemaleMale
Abishag (Avishag)
אֲבִישַׁג Abishag was King David's personal servant. Female
Abital (Avital)
אֲבִיטַל Abital was one of King David's wives. Female
1901: It All Started With a Dream...
About the History of Israel and the JNF
It was the fourth
day of the Fifth Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland in 1901. The
delegates had spent the day debating a proposal for the establishment
of a national fund to purchase land in Ottoman Empire-controlled
Palestine, as had been suggested at the first Congress four years
earlier by mathematics professor Zvi Hermann Schapira.
Although
Schapira had died in the summer of 1898, the idea of a fund had won a
large following. Yet three congresses had passed without any practical
decision being taken.
At times it seemed that the dream of a
Jewish state was destined to remain just that--only a dream. But
Theodor Herzl, a Viennese journalist, was unwavering--it was time to
take action, and he was determined that before the Congress came to an
end, a national fund would be established.
Herzl stood
before the delegates and delivered a passionate plea for the immediate
establishment of the fund: "After striving for so many years to set up
the fund, we do not want to disperse again without having done
anything."
His speech turned the delegates around, the motion
passed and the congress resolved that a fund to be called Jewish
National Fund (Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael) (JNF-KKL) should be
established, and that "the fund shall be the property of the Jewish
people as a whole."
JNF's first undertaking was the collection
of £200,000. One of the delegates immediately pledged £10 in memory of
Zvi Hermann Schapira. Herzl made the second donation and his aide, the
third. And with this, the dream of a national fund--to be used to build
the foundations of a Jewish state--became a reality.
Over the past 107 years,
JNF
has evolved into a global environmental leader by planting 240 million
trees, building over 200 reservoirs and dams, developing over 250,000
acres of land, creating more than 1,000 parks, providing the
infrastructure for over 1,000 communities, bringing life to the Negev
Desert and educating students around the world about Israel and the
environment.
Our History
Jewish National Fund is a non-profit
organization founded in 1901. It all started with a dream. Theodor
Herzl, a Viennese journalist, witnessed virulent anti-Semitism at the
Dreyfus trial. He knew it was time to take action, and was determined
that before the Fifth Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland came to an
end, a national fund would be established to purchase land for a Jewish
State in Ottoman-controlled Palestine.
