Happy 66 th B- day,Israel !

1. Happy 66th B-day,Israel ! Dear Israel, We wish you a happy, long, long life. We wish you Peace ! Love and understanding ! We wish you to flourish ! We wish you all the best in the world . “In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles”David Ben-Gurion ליום הולדתך ארצי, אנו מאחלים לך חיים מאושרים וארוכים. מאחלים לך שלום, אהבה והבנה בין האנשים בארץ ובעולם. אנו מאחלים לך לפרוח. אנו מאחלים לך את כל הטוב שבעולם! "בישראל כדי להיות ראליסט אתה חייב להאמין בנסים" דוד בן גוריון Drága hazánk, Izrael, kívánunkneked boldog, hosszú életet. Kívánunk neked békét, szeretetet és megértést lakóid között és a népek családjában. Kívánjuk neked – és magunknak – hogy virágozz. Kívánjuk a legjobbakat a világon! “Izraelbenakirealistaakarlenni, annakhinniekell a csodákban”David Ben-Gurion Dragăpatrie, Israel, Iţi dorim o viață fericită, lungă. Iţi dorim pace, dragoste și înțelegere între oameni șiîntrepopoare. Iţi dorim să înfloreşti. Iţi dorim tot ceestemaibun în lume! “In Israel ca să fii realist, trebuie să crezi în miracole" David Ben-Gurion

2. David Ben-Gurion was the first Prime Minister of Israel. He is considered the "father" of modern Israel. Ben-Gurion was also named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Important People of the Century.

3. In 1969 Golda Meir became Israel's first and the world's third woman to hold the Prime Minister office .She was described as the "Iron Lady" of Israeli politics.

4. “Optimists and pessimists die the same way. They just live differently. I prefer to live as an optimist.”Shimon Peres, 2005 Shimon Peres is the ninth and current President of the State of Israel. He served twice as the Prime Minister of Israel and once as Interim Prime Minister, and has been a member of 12 cabinets in a political career spanning over 66 years. At the age of 90, Peres is the world's oldest head of state. Shimon Peres is the author of 11 books He won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize together with Yitzhak Rabin for the peace talks that he participated in as Israeli Foreign Minister, producing the Oslo Accords.

5. Yitzhak Rabin was a politician, statesman and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974–77 and 1992 until his assassination in 1995. In 1964 he was appointed Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Following his retirement from the IDF he became ambassador to the United States beginning in 1968, serving for five years.

6. Menachem Begin was an Israeli politician, founder of Likud and the sixth Prime Minister of the State of Israel. Begin’s most significant achievement as Prime Minister was the signing of a peace treaty with Egypt in 1979, for which he and Anwar Sadat shared the Nobel Prize for Peace.

7. Yosef "Tommy" Lapid, born as TomislavLampel to a family of Hungarian Jewish descent, was an Israeli radio and television presenter, journalist, politician and government minister known for his sharp tongue and acerbic wit. Beer Sheva

8. Independence Day Posters at the Ben Gurion airport terminal, 2008

9. Ron Arad , was an Israeli Air Force combat navigator officer who is officially classified as missing in action since October 1986, but is widely presumed dead. Arad was lost on a mission over Lebanon, captured by Shiite group Amal and was later handed over to the Hezbollah.

10. Yonatan "Yoni" Netanyahu was the commander of the elite Israeli army commando unit SayeretMatkal. He was killed in action during Operation Entebbe in Uganda. He was awarded the Medal of Distinguished Service for his conduct in the Yom Kippur War. His younger brother, Benjamin Netanyahu, is the current Prime Minister of Israel.

12. Teddy Kollekserved as the mayor of Jerusalem from 1965 to 1993. During his tenure, Jerusalem developed into a modern city, especially after its reunification in 1967. He was once called "the greatest builder of Jerusalem since Herod."

13. [ KerenLeibovitchis a three-time world champion, a five-time European champion, a holder of three world records (for the 100-meter and 200-meter backstroke and the 100-meter freestyle), and an eight-time Paralympics medal winner.

14. Prof.ShaulLadany,world-record-holding racewalker, Bergen-Belsen survivor, Munich Massacre survivor, Professor of Industrial Engineering

15. ZeruyaShalev, a bestselling author, has published five novels, a book of poetry and a children's book. Her novels have received critical acclaim both in Israel and abroad. They have been translated into 21 languages and were bestsellers in several countries. Abraham's well, Beer Sheva

16. DaniKaravanis an Israeli sculptor best known for site specific memorials and monuments which merge into the environment. The monument in the photo is the Negev memorial monument in Beersheva.

17. Artist Dina Merhavproduces skyscraping sculptures of birds and angels, which can be seen in outdoor spaces all over the world. In the photo : “ Fishbird “ , Statue Road Hazerim

18. Nahum Gutman , aBessarabia -born Israeli painter, sculptor, and author, helped pioneer a distinctively Israeli style, moving away from the European influences of his teachers. He worked in many different media: oils, watercolors, gouache and pen and ink.

19. Andrei Călăraşu was born in 1922 in Botosani, Romania as Bernard Grupper. Holocaust survivor, famous theatre and film director both in Romania and Israel. In 1965, Andrei immigrated to Israel. He began to work at the BeitZvi School for the Performing Arts, where he established the Film and Television track. He was a member of the founding team of Israel Television. He worked in television and in radio, for some 30 years, directing hundreds of programs. He died and was buried in Tel Aviv on Friday, 3 May 2014 May he rest in Peace !

20. Eli Ben Zaken, the founder of Domaine du Castel family winery was one of two Israelis to be honored with the French National Order of Agricultural Merit. The kosher wines produced at Domaine Du Castel near Jerusalem, are known and appreciated all around the world.

21. Stef Wertheimer is a German-born Israeli business magnate, philanthropist and former politician. He is a former Member of the Knesset. Wertheimer founded four industrial parks in Israel, with the goal of fostering economic growth and job creation to help create stability in the region. One of the parks is in Omer, in the Negev.

22. The popular ICQ instant-messaging program was created by four Israeli computer geeks: Yair Goldfinger, ArikVardi, Sefi Vigiser and Amnon Amir – four men who have really changed the world. For the first time it was possible for people to communicate with their friends and know when their friends are online.

23. In 1999, Dov Moran, an Israeli engineer and entrepreneur, along with his colleagues at msystems, invented an innovative device that could be connected to a computer quickly and easily. The device did not require a preliminary installation process and it operated using a standard connection that exists in any modern computer. It was small, reliable and enabled unlimited expansion of the scope of memory.

24. VoIP technology enables telephone calls to be transmitted via the internet. The internet was originally designed to transfer computer data, thus a special application that would allow the transfer of telephone calls via internet had to be developed. This type of innovative software was first developed in 1995 by Alon Cohen, Lior Haramati, Ofer Shem-Tov, Elad Sion, Opher Kahane and Dror Tirosh - Israeli software developers at VocalTec.

25. In 1995, Israeli entrepreneur Amnon Ovadia identified the need for an online English–Hebrew dictionary that did not interrupt the reading process. As a result, Babylon Ltd. was founded in 1997 and launched the first version of Babylon,a computer dictionary and translation program.

26. AvramHershko, Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 2004 Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize for Economics, 2002

27. Aaron Ciechanover, Chemistry, 2004 Robert Aumann, Nobel Prize for Economics, 2005

28. Ada E. Yonath, Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 2009 Dan Shechtman, Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 2011

29. Michael Levitt Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013 AriehWarshel, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013

30. Daniel Oren has conducted at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Metropolitan in New York, the Arena in Verona, the Vienna Staatsoper, the Bastille in Paris and the opera houses of Rome, Trieste, Genoa, Florence, Parma, Turin, Venice, Buenos Aires, San Francisco, Tokyo, Huston, Washington and many others.At Masada : Nabuco,Aida,Carmen

31. Itzhak Perlman is a violinist, conductor, and instructor of master classes. He is regarded as one of the preeminent violinists of the 20th and early-21st centuries . Perlman has also played jazz and klezmer. He has been a soloist for a number of movie scores, such as the 1993 film Schindler's List and Memoirs of a Geisha, along with cellist Yo-Yo Ma.

32. Arik Einstein, singer, songwriter, actor, and screenwriter, was a pioneer of Israeli rock music and is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential Israeli singer and musician of all time. Beer Sheva

33. AchinoamNini,also known by her professional name Noa, is a leading Israeli international concert and recording artist.Noa has performed in Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall in New York City, Olympia in Paris, Rome's Colosseum. In 2000, Noa recorded the theme song of "Life Is Beautiful", Roberto Benigni's Oscar award-winning film.

34. ShlomoGronich, singer, songwriter, pianist, composer, arranger, bandleader.He is acclaimed internationally for his numerous multi-cultural projects with TheSheba Choir consisting of young immigrants from Ethiopia. ShlomoGronich composes classical music, performed by leading ensembles and orchestras also jazz, world music, and music for cinema, theater and dance. He received many prizes and awards for his contribution to musical life in Israel.

35. 5 May 2014 זוהי המצגתהשלישיתבסדרהזו. בכלשנהאניעושההשינוייםברשימתהאנשים שהיה וישלהםהשפעהעלהתפתחותהשלמדינתישראל. Photos – Noemi.Ervin, Liviu Negev desert , Dead Sea ,EinGedi , Jerusalem,Masada,Ashdod, Beer Sheva,Omer From the net – credit to their owners Info : Wikipedia http://israel21c.org/ Music : Horamamtera This is the third presentation in this series. Every year I make changes in the list of people who have had an impact on the development of our country.