Geography

Ze'ev Jabotinsky and Dr. Shmuel Perlman invented a host of new names and terms to compile the first atlas in the Hebrew language — about a quarter of a century before the State of Israel was founded. Some of them survived to this day, some did not succeed in modern Hebrew. The work of publishing the "National Atlas" was part of the nation-building process. Among the maps: the "Diaspora" map of the...