1948 War of Independence On 14 May 1948 the State of Israel was proclaimed according to the UN partition plan (1947). Less than 24 hours later, the regular armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq invaded the country, forcing Israel to defend the sovereignty it had regained in its...
The boundary established at the conclusion of Israel's 1948 War of Independence, the Green Line has long formed the basis of territorial negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. Shavuot How Many Days is Shavuot in Israel? In American Jewish society a joke has emerged over the past decad...
The external threat to Israel's existence as a state has been the dominant motif of Israeli life since the country's proclamation of independence on 14 May 1948. There have been five major wars with the country's Arab neighbours: the War of Independence between 1947 and 1949, the Suez ...
Immigration of European Jews into Israel resulting in major demographic changes. Majority of the Palestinian land is now non-Muslim. Jerusalem controlled by both Jordan (East Jerusalem) and Israel (West Jerusalem), as per UN agreement. history.state.gov 1949War of Independence First Arab-Israe...
“Magash Hakesef” (The Silver Platter), a poem written by Nathan Alterman during the 1948 War of Independence, was during the 1950s and ’60s the most common reading for Yom Hazikaron ceremonies. The poem attained a status almost similar to Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address in U.S. culture....
On May 14, 1948 the state of Israel declared independence in accordance with the UN decision and this was followed by a war with the surrounding Arab states, which refused to accept the plan. The Israelis were subsequently victorious in a series of wars confirming their independence and expandin...
Some theologians have argued that the battle highlighted in Psalm 83:5–8 was fulfilled in Israel’s 1948 War for Independence; however,the tents (refugees or military encampments) of Edom (Southern Jordan) only came into existence in 1949, after the war ended. ...
In Israel’s War of Independence in 1948, Israel won the war on most fronts. However, much of its heartland was not included in the cease-fire agreements at the end of the war. This led to the Jordanian occupation between 1948 and 1967 of most of Israel’s holiest cities. Even the Ol...
The origin of the process of integration was one of ‘forced integration” when soon after Israel's 1948 War of Independence, Jewish new immigrants occupied abandoned Arab homes. It is argued that the Arab enclave is a unique type of ghetto. It exhibits a combination of a voluntary, ...
It has been more than 17 years since an Israeli soldier was taken as a prisoner of war in an assault on Israeli territory. And Israel has not seen this kind of infiltration of military bases, towns and kibbutzim since town-by-town fighting in the 1948 war of independence. Israelis inspect...