areas the United Nations partition plan for the region had reserved for a Palestinian Arab state. In a 1967 war Israel captured the Palestinian territories from Jordan and Egypt and began establishing Jewish communities there. The Palestinians gained limited self-rule in the occupied territories with...
Perfect Heroes: The World War II Parachutists and the Making of Israeli Collective Memory During World War II, the British military dropped several dozen parachutists from Palestine, including three women, behind enemy lines in Eastern Europe an... Nachman Ben-Yehuda - 《Biography》 被引量: 1发...
In Palestine in addition to my work for the Aaronsohns, I intensified my studies in desert ecology (24), focusing on the effects of soil and habitat on the distribution and anatomical structure of the plants growing in such environments. I encouraged my students, Alexandra Poljakoff, E. ...
Britain and Palestine during the Second World War The publication of the 1939 White Paper marked a radical change in British Policy towards Palestine and evisaged an independent Palestine with an Arab majo... R. Zweig - Boydell Press for the Royal Historical Society, 被引量: 3发表: 1986年 ...
Noteworthy is the collaboration between German officers and troops, who exhibited unwavering dedication alongside their Turkish comrades during this phase of the war and throughout subsequent stages of the Palestinian campaign. British forces launched a counteroffensive on 30 April. However, the Turks, ...
The survey and mapping activities which took place in Palestine and Mesopotamia during the First World War need to be considered in their contexts, both of long-term British mapping activities in the region, and of survey and mapping generally during the First World War. Thus, while it is imp...
During World War I, British troops occupied Palestine. On Nov. 2, 1917, the British government issued the Balfour Declaration, promising to promote the creation of a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine. At the San Remo Conference in April 1920, Great Britain received a mandat...
While Chapter2analyzesthemajortransformations causedbyEuropeanintervention during the nineteenth century, up to the First World Warperiod, Chapter 3 focuses on the establishment of a "European Jewish collectivity" in the country, and its impact on Palestine and the Palestinians during the interwarperiod...
School bus drivers and community supporters of the union packed the court for three days, transforming the inside of the courthouse into ade factounion hall. During lunch breaks the drivers held militant picket lines outside the building, with placards saying “Drop the Charges” and “No Contr...
Yosef Grodzinsky,In the Shadow of the Holocaust: The Struggle Between Jews and Zionists in the Aftermath of World War II(Common Courage Press, 2004), 124. 53. Dozens of Jewish DPs newspapers and periodicals eventually appeared during the duration of the life DP camps. In the British Zone,...