See also:Palestinian State (Proposed) Map: Regions, Geography, Facts & Figures History of Israel Israel's history is deeply intertwined with the history of the Jewish people. Its modern establishment in 1948 by theUnited Nationscame after centuries of Jewish diaspora. Over the years, Israel has ...
A detail from a 1942 British Mandate map of Haifa, now a city in Israel. Courtesy of Palestine Open Maps MIMI KIRK MAY 21, 2018 A new open-source project uses British historical maps to reveal what Palestine looked like before 1948. SHARE TWEET The Palestinians recently protesting in the Ga...
Early in 1948, before Israel became independent, the Arabs of Tiberias cut the main road linking the Jewish settlements of Upper Galilee with those of theJordan Valleyand besieged the ancient Jewish quarter on the lakeshore within the walled city. Accordingly, theHaganah(Jewish defense forces) laun...
On August 31 Israeli forces found the bodies of six hostages. Autopsies indicated that they were executed 1–2 days before they were found and nearly two months after Hamas had agreed to release three of them in a July ceasefire proposal. Protests erupted in fury across Israel as hundreds of...
An important piece of evidence:The British Palestine Exploration Fund survey map – 1871-1877– The PEF people delineated every wadi, every settlement, tree, and home. They crisscrossed the territory, and an examination of the map shows how empty and barren the land was, and how few people...
The Arab invasion of 1948 directly caused the Palestinian refugee problem. No Palestinian Arabs became refugees before the 1948 war and none would have been displaced had the Arabs accepted the partition plan or any of the previous partition plans. The number of Palestinian refugees in 1948 is ...
Antitank missiles in service are the Israeli Spike, Lahat, Mapats, nimrod, and the U-built BGM-71 TOW and M47 Dragon. There is no organic air arm attached to the Army, but the air force is capable of doing a serious anti-tank job. In 1967, Mirage-III interceptors were used as ad...
In 1948, Israel was declared independent by the United Nations. David Ben Gurion became the first Prime Minister of Israel. UN presented a plan for the partition of Palestine to form Israel. The image below shows the Israel map as per the UN plan and today ...
Four years ago, historian Tamar Novick was jolted by a document she found in the file of Yosef Waschitz, from the Arab Department of the left-wing Mapam Party, in the Yad Yaari archive at Givat Haviva. The document, which seemed to describe eve...
Air Force One will make a brief refueling stop in Ramstein, Germany, before returning to Joint Base Andrews. By Kerry Breen https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/israel-hamas-war-biden-visit-gaza-hospital-attack/#post-update-37586826