Zionism - Mother Tongue

Algeria

El Oued (Souf)

Choice of making Aliya

Caucasus

Baku

Zionist song "Beautiful Israel"

Derbent

Jewish tradition and the connection to Israel

Quba

Zionist song "Beautiful Israel"

Egypt

Alexandria

Aliya

Song about the maʿabara (absorption camp)

Greece

Aigio

Zionist song about Palestina

India

Kerala

Iran

Isfahan

Aliya and absorption

Istanbul

Nahawand

The situation in Iran before making Aliya

Salmas

Shahandasht

Aliya and absorption

Iraq

Baghdad

Aliya and life in the maʿabara (absorption camp)

Deterioration of the Jew's' conditions in Iraq and Aliya to Israel

Fighting for Zionism

Learning Hebrew, pre-army training and the State of Israel

Erbil

Aliya to Israel

Tuz Khurmatu

Holidays

Purchasing property, Aliya and absorption in Israel

ʿAna

Zionism, Aliya and settlement

Israel

Hebron

The 1948 War of Independence

Jerusalem

The 1948 War of Independence

Kurdistan

Amadiya

Aliya and family

Barzan

From Barzan to Baghdad and from Baghdad to the maʿabara (absorption camp)

Parents' Aliya and their life in Israel

Bukan

Aliya, absorption and family

Challa

The death threats over leaving for Israel

Israel

Aliya and family

Qapʾachʾan

Aliya to Israel

Aliya to Israel

Said 'ubed

Aliya to Israel

Sulaymaniya

Zionism

Zakho

From Barzan to Baghdad and from Baghdad to the maʿabara (absorption camp)

Parents' Aliya and their life in Israel

The resistance and the military

Libya

Az-Zawiya

Aliya and settlement in Israel

Gharyan

Aliya to Israel and absorption

Msallata

Aliya and Zionism

Language, Aliya and absorption

Tripoli

Aliya and life story

Aliya to Israel and absorption

Aliya, absorption and search for relatives

Relationship with the Muslims and the Tripoli pogroms

Zionism, Aliya and settlement

Morocco

Asilah

Life in Asilah during the Six-Day War

Azemmour

Aliya to Israel

Beni-Mellal

Underground Zionist activity towards making Aliya

Casablanca

Aliya and absorption

Aliya and settlement

Aliya to Israel

Aliya to Israel in ship Egoz's last journey before it drowned

Life in Morocco, the family and the Jewish Agency

Debdou

Aliya to Israel and cultural differences

Er-Rich

Zionist activity, arrests and escape

Marrakesh

Aliya and settlement in Israel

Meeting Montefiore, vowing to make Aliya, the grandfather's injury during the 1919 events in Jerusalem, temporary return to Morocco and renewed Aliya

Meknes

Aliya, Zionism and relationship with the Arabs

Mogador (Essaouira)

Aliya and absorption

Ouled Mansour

Aliya and absorption

Taroudant

Aliya and settlement in Israel

Syria

Aleppo

Story about Zionism

Uniqueness of the Jewish People

Damascus

Arrest and imprisonment following Aliya to Israel

Tunisia

Djerba

Life in Djerba and connection to the land of Israel

Settlement and absorption in Israel

El Ḥamma

Settlement and absorption in Israel

Moknine

Oslo (Hurum) air disaster

Zarzis

Aliya and adjustment

Longing song for Jerusalem

Song of Aliya and praise to the Land of Israel

Song of Aliya to the Land of Israel

Turkey

Istanbul

Aliya and absorption

Aliya to Israel

Yemen

Al Hajar

The journey from ʿAden to Israel

Ḥawlan

Aliya and settlement

Leaving Yemen and making Aliya to Israel

Life in Yemen and Aliya and settlement in Israel

Moving to moshav (village) 'Tnuvot' and agricultural theft

Transit camps: Ḥashed, Aden and ʿEin Shemer

Ibb

Aliya to Israel

Sa'dah

Absorption in Israel

Sanaʽa

ʿAfar (Sanaʿa)

Aliya and settlement

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