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38th Parallel. Korean War. demilitarized zone (DMZ). Crossing the 38th parallel. United Nations forces withdraw from Pyongyang, the North Korean capital. They recrossed the 38th parallel, 1950. The DMZ was created July 27, 1953 at P'anmunjom.
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NGOs see dramatic increase in financial assistance requests from young people • Apr. 7, 2025, 6:25 AM ET (Jerusalem Post)
Netanyahu hosts Eli Cohen's widow, vows continued effort to recover his remains • Mar. 28, 2025, 4:54 AM ET (Jerusalem Post)

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Also Known As Kamal Amin Thaabet • Eliahu ben Shaoul Cohen
Born 1924 • Alexandria • Egypt
Died May 18, 1965 (aged 41) • Damascus • Syria
Israel Beer
Israeli military analyst
Yosef Lapid
Israeli journalist and politician
David Ben-Gurion
David Ben-Gurion
prime minister of Israel
Chaim Weizmann
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli president and scientist
The first prime minister of Israel
Golda Meir
prime minister of Israel
Avrom Sutzkever
Israeli writer
Moshe Dayan.
Moshe Dayan
Israeli statesman
Menachem Begin
Menachem Begin
prime minister of Israel
Yitzhak Shamir
Yitzḥak Shamir
prime minister of Israel
S.Y. Agnon
S.Y. Agnon
Israeli author
Ben-Zvi, 1953
Itzhak Ben-Zvi
president of Israel
Mordecai Ardon
Israeli painter
Shcharansky, Anatoly
Anatoly Shcharansky
Soviet-Israeli human-rights activist
Uri Zvi Greenberg
Israeli poet
Levi Eshkol
Levi Eshkol
prime minister of Israel
al-Ḥākim
Fāṭimid caliph
Reinhard Gehlen
German general
Ethel Rosenberg
American spy
Julius Rosenberg
American engineer and spy
Sir Francis Walsingham, detail of a panel painting attributed to John de Critz the Elder, last quarter of the 16th century; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Sir Francis Walsingham
English statesman