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Armenian Ceramics at the Jerusalem House of Quality (Saint John Eye Hospital Group), JerusalemAt the end of 1918, members of the British Military Administration and the Pro-Jerusalem Society invited David Ohannessian, a master Armenian ceramicist from Ottoman Kütahya and a survivor of the Armenian Genocide who was living as a refugee in Aleppo, to travel to Jerusalem to renovate the ceramic ...
The 2023 Israel-Hamas war significantly impacted Bethlehem's olive wood carving industry, which has long been a cornerstone of the city's economy and cultural identity. The conflict resulted in a drastic decline in tourism, the primary market for the region’s handcrafted religious artifacts.
The majority of these gifts were food items. Of these twenty-four gifts, ten gifts were given to the priests in the Temple, four were to be consumed by the priests in Jerusalem, and ten were to be given to the priests outside the land of Israel. Most of the gifts are not given today, because there is no Temple.
The command to bring first-fruits to the Temple appears in the Torah, in Exodus 23:19 and Deuteronomy 26:1–11.The latter passage records the declaration (also known as the Avowal) which was recited upon presenting the first-fruits to the priest (Deuteronomy 26:3–10).
Mekupelet (Hebrew: מקופלת) (sold in English-speaking markets as Chocolate Log [1]) is a bar of thinly folded milk chocolate produced in Israel since 1935 by Elite, [2] now a subdivision of the Strauss Group.
In terms of actual gelt (money), parents and grandparents or other relatives may give sums of money as an official Hanukkah gift. According to a survey done in 2006, 74 percent of parents in Israel give their children Chanukah gelt. [5] In Hasidic communities, the Rebbes distribute coins to those who visit them during Hanukkah.
With the arrival of Ashkenazi Jews fleeing persecution in Europe during the second aliyah to Israel, they brought with them their traditional foods and confections including the predecessor to the krembo. Chocolate-coated marshmallow treats were popular as homemade sweets among the Ashkenazi in the early 20th century.
Benno Elkan in his studio working on the Menorah. In 1950, a year and a half after Israel's Declaration of Independence, Edwin Samuel, son of the first British High Commissioner to Palestine, Herbert Samuel, approached the Jewish artist Benno Elkan and discussed with him the idea of offering as a gift to the young Israeli state a monumental bronze sculpture in the form of a menorah.