He was wounded in battle, and after the war, having lost his parents and sister and left alone in the world, he decided to head for pre-state Israel in 1947. The ship was intercepted by the British, and its pas
Israel annexed the Golan Heights, a strategic mountainous region overlooking northern Israel. In 2019, then-President Trump became the first and only foreign leader to recognize Israel’s control. The rest of the world still considers the area occupied Syrian territor...
Toward the end of that year, however, indications of change became apparent, and the Soviet Union began criticizing Israel.This book studies the USSR's attitude toward the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine in the immediate post-World War II period and toward Israel in the first ...
He said the current State of Israel was created in order to give "displaced" persons a place to live after WWII and the Nazi regime and that the Palestinians had, prior to this, been the legally recognized owners of said land. That's what this other person said; I don't know the val...
Wars in Israel 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...
If Mandate-era Brits were alive today, they’d be shocked to see that relations between Jews and Arabs are more or less where they left them six and a half decades a…
In late 2012, as Israel prepared for polls set for early 2013, Bennett was elected to lead the religious right-wing Jewish Home party. His relatively young age and fresh ideas helped steer the minor party to a historic victory: winning 12 seats, it became the fourth largest party in the ...
Under Byzantine Rule, Syria Palaestina became known as Palaestina. 1516Ottoman Empire Ottoman Empire ruled over Palaestina. 1880Zionism Birth of political Zionism which believed that Jews needed a separate state. 1882Immigration Ottomon sultan approves Jewish immigration to Ottoman territories. 1897Jew...
DC. In 1984 he was appointed Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, a position in which he served at for four years. During this time he became renowned as a tireless champion of Israel’s cause in the international arena. As such, he led the effort for declassification of the United Nations...
Moshe Smilansky, a founder of Rehovot in 1890, became intimately familiar with Arabs in the country. He contended in his essay Be-Moledet (The Homeland) in 1915 that, the Arab would succumb “if he senses you have power … and maintain his hatred for you in his heart.” Facing a harsh...