The Tel Aviv municipality has declared this year the Rambam Year to mark the 850th birthday of the philosopher Maimonides, known as the Rambam. The city will introduce special lessons in local schools devoted to the personality of the scholar who greatly influenced Jewish thought. His birthday falls on April 5, or Nissan 14 on the Hebrew calendar. About 10,000 people participated in special festivities yesterday in Tiberias, near Maimonides grave.
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