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Six historical photographs: Jewish institutions on one side, the institutions that built the Israeli state on the other
Left: the Jewish Chronicle, 1900 (Dieter Hofer, Jewish Museum of Switzerland, CC BY-SA 4.0); Alliance school pupils, Hamadan, 1927 (Frédéric Gadmer, Musée départemental Albert-Kahn, CC BY 4.0); Bevis Marks (Edwardx, CC BY-SA 3.0). Right: Haganah members, Tel Aviv, 1948 (Zoltan Kluger, GPO, CC BY-SA 3.0); the Hebrew University opening, 1925 (Matson Collection, Library of Congress); the Anglo-Palestine Company, Tel Aviv, 1926 (National Photo Collection of Israel).

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11 Jewish Institutions Older Than Israel

Some never needed the state. Others built it before it existed.

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