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of one of the litter by the mother, and the subsequent death of the mother, meant that Aharoni had to hand-rear the pups during the journey back. The four that made it were bred successfully and used extensively in laboratories, before being introduced to the pet market in the 1940s.
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Aharoni discovered 30 previously unknown species of animals, insects and birds, and is credited with giving them Hebrew names. In 1930, Aharoni set off to look for Syrian hamsters at the request of his colleague
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of Vidzy and died before his son Israel was born. Israel lost his mother as well when he was two years old. Being an orphan, he lived with his grandmother and studied at a
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to Palestine in 1901, which was then under Turkish rule. His early zoological expeditions took place under the protection of the local Sultan, for whom he obtained
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specimens. Many of his collected specimens can still be viewed at the
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who was looking for an easily breedable alternative to the
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today are thus said to be descended from this one litter.
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in 1839 but had not been sighted since. Together with a
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Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the Ottoman Empire
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Burials at the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives
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Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Yisrael Aharoni

Vidzy
Kovno Governorate
Russian Empire
Charles University
Syrian hamsters
Zoology
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hebrew
Ottoman
British Palestine
Hebrew
zoologist
Syrian hamsters
Aleppo
Syria
Jerusalem
Israel
Vidzy
Kovno Governorate
Russian Empire
Belarus
Rosh yeshiva
Cheder
Telshe yeshiva
Prague
zoology
Charles University
immigrated

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