Dimona is home to Israel's Black Hebrew community, governed by its founder and spiritual leader, Ben Ammi Ben-Israel.

* Ben Ammi ( born 1939 ), Anointed Spiritual Leader of the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem ( Shomrei Hashalom )

Ben Ammi

; 1969: First group of African Hebrew Israelites begin to migrate to Israel under the leadership of Ben Ammi Ben Israel.

The nearby lands are cultivated ; a banana grove belongs to the Ben Ammi settlement.

The group was founded in Chicago by a former steel worker named Ben Carter ( b. 1939 ), who took the name Ben Ammi upon joining the Hebrew Israelite community in Chicago.

Denouncing the name Ben Carter and calling it his " slave name ," Ben Ammi says that in 1966 he had a " vision ," in which the Archangel Gabriel called him to take his people, African Americans, back to the Holy Land of Israel.

Ben Ammi accused the government of racism and usurping the holy land, while claiming that " The greatest conspiracy ever conceived in the minds of men was the creation of National Homeland for Jewish People .".

Although the leader Bayard Rustin called Ben Ammi " a dictator " without " the same moral standards as democratic leaders ", the others disassociated themselves from this.

The core of the group's lifestyle is the Tanakh, Ben Ammi claims that " the Law and the Prophets ... are the light ; they are the essence of what is required to set man on the path and show him the way back to his Maker.

Ben Ammi claims that Africans are the victims of " a cruel plot to control us, an international religious plot that came about as a result of Blacks disobeying the law and commandments of God.

On several occasions Ben Ammi and the community have been accused of anti-semitism.

As well as denying the Israelite heritage of world Jewry and its claim to the land of Israel, the stalemate between the community and Israel in the late 70s led to heightened tensions and according to the Jerusalem Post, " Ben Ammi mounted a worldwide public-relations offensive against the government that dripped with anti-semitism.

During an interview with Haaretz, a popular Israeli newspaper, Ben Ammi stated that " We must understand that peace will never come, and true freedom will never come, by way of politicians ...

In April of 2011, Ben Ammi led a 7-member delegation to South Africa to engage in discussions with His Majesty King Goodwill Zwelithini and the South African Government to explore options of replicating the " Dimona Model " for community development in the country.

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Ben Ammi Ben Israel established the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem in Chicago, Illinois, in 1966.

In 1969, after a sojourn in Liberia, Ben Ammi and about 30 Hebrew Israelites moved to Israel.

Since then, Boras's clients have regularly pushed draft compensation higher, starting with Andy Benes in 1988 ($ 247, 500 ), Ben McDonald in 1989 ($ 1. 01 million guarantee, including a $ 350, 000 bonus ), Todd Van Poppel in 1990 ($ 1. 2 million guarantee, including a $ 500, 000 bonus ) and Brien Taylor in 1991 ($ 1. 55 million ) and continuing through J. D.

* The next year, in 1989, Boras negotiated the first multi-year major league contract ever given to a baseball-only amateur, a $ 1. 01 million deal for first overall pick Ben McDonald with the Baltimore Orioles, which included a $ 350, 000 signing bonus.

Because of the influence of Ben Jonson, the term Tribe of Ben is sometimes applied to poets in this loose group ( Sons of Ben applies properly only to dramatist followers of Jonson ).

His coterie of followers, which included literary figures like Ben Jonson and John Selden, are forced to seek other patrons.

Karaite Judaism ( in Hebrew Kara ' im-קראים-" readers ") started in the 9th Century when Anan Ben David and his followers rejected the oral law.

The phrase Sons of Ben is a mildly problematic term applied to followers of Ben Jonson in English poetry and drama in the first half of the seventeenth century.

Shackerley Marmion ( January 1603 – 1639 ), also Shakerley, Shakerly, Schackerley, Marmyon, Marmyun, or Mermion, was an early 17th-century dramatist, often classed among the Sons of Ben, the followers of Ben Jonson who continued his style of comedy.

Ben F. Meyer, also, argued that Jesus applied prophecy regarding Zion and temple to himself and his followers:

Out of compulsion to say something cheery, Ben Prime blurted, `` Well, we were lucky to be on soft ground when the first floodheads hit.

Though that may be unfair since Ben Cooper, John's first son, came along early in 1938, the cutest baby you ever saw and a blessing that he looked all Cooper from fontanel to pink toes, nary a trace of Edythe.

A first US IPO followed in 1989 after Ben Rosen joined the Borland board with Goldman Sachs as the lead banker and a second offering in 1991 with Lazard as the lead banker.

The first series titled The Black Adder was written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson, while subsequent episodes were written by Curtis and Ben Elton.

In August 1959, Ben Gurley started design of the company's first computer, the PDP-1.

Scarface was the first film in which Hawks worked with screenwriter Ben Hecht, who became a close friend and collaborator for twenty years.

Shira Schoenberg observes that " The first mention of mourners saying Kaddish at the end of the service is in a thirteenth century halakhic writing by Isaac Ben Moses of Vienna and called the Or Zarua literally, " Light is Sown ".

* Ben Turner's Robin Hood site one of the first on the web

Peckinpah's first big-budget film had a large cast, including Heston, Richard Harris, James Coburn, Senta Berger, Jim Hutton, Ben Johnson, Warren Oates, R. G. Armstrong and L. Q. Jones.

According to Zohar and the Alphabet of Ben Sira, Lilith was Adam's first wife who later became a succubus.

Bernard Miles gave Milligan his first straight acting role, as Ben Gunn, in the Mermaid Theatre production of Treasure Island.

The US edition, once again by A & E Home Video, includes the first North American release of an alternative edit of " Arrival " ( in high definition ), as well as " The Alternate Version of ' The Chimes of Big Ben '" from the earlier DVD / VHS releases ( in standard definition due to the degraded source material ) and assorted documentaries and behind-the-scenes footage.

The first part of the tour, which featured Amos on piano, Rhodes, and Wurlitzer, was six months long and Amos went out again in the summer of 2003 for a tour with Ben Folds opening.

* January 17 – The first VW Type 1 to arrive in the United States, a 1948 model, is brought to New York by Dutch businessman Ben Pon.

* July 11 – The chimes of Big Ben ring for the first time in London.

** Algeria proclaims independence ; Ahmed Ben Bella is the first President.

* September 28 – Prime Minister Ahmed Ben Bella founds the first government in Algeria.

( Ben Jonson received a royal pension of 100 marks in 1616, causing some historians to identify him as England's first Poet Laureate, even though John Fletcher was more popular ).

Ben Jonson's poetic lamentation On my first Sonne is also from this year.

* December 7 – Ben Franklin builds the first volunteer fire company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

After his sponsors stopped paying him before the 2005 German Grand Prix, Patrick Friesacher was to be replaced by Dutch Jordan test driver Robert Doornbos to create the first all-Dutch driver line-up in Formula one since Carel Godin de Beaufort and Ben Pon drove together for the Ecurie Maarsbergen team at the 1962 Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort.

Ben Webster, the Orchestra's first regular tenor saxophonist, started a rivalry with Johnny Hodges as the Orchestra's foremost voice in the sax section.

What we would consider today to be the first recorded sound effect was of Big Ben striking 10: 30, 10: 45, and 11: 00.

Scarface also became one of Hollywood's first major gangster films, and was written by Ben Hecht, a leading screenwriter.

* At least two major dramatists have written tragedies about Catilina: Ben Jonson, the English Jacobean playwright, wrote Catiline His Conspiracy in 1611 ; Catiline was the first play by the Norwegian ' father of modern drama ' Henrik Ibsen, written in 1850.