Enraged, David Ben-Gurion stormed out of the 22nd World Zionist Congress halfway, went directly to his hotel and started to pack his luggage. He had lost his patience. Thoughts were racing in his mind– Why should the Jews have to beg before the world even today to acquire their rightful ‘Promised Land’? Why do we […]
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The Jews were preparing for the ultimate struggle to gain their rightful ‘Promised Land’ and create a Jew-nation in Palestine. They undertook many programmes for their development as a society. Prominent among them were the experiments of the ‘Community Living’ – the ‘Kibbutz’ and the ‘Moshav’, which were based on the following ideals – • […]
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After the failure of the 1939 Jew-Arab ‘London Conference’, the British government unilaterally announced a ‘White Paper’. The White Paper was a complete Arab-leaning imposition. It proposed for allotment of most of the land of Palestine to the Arabs while leaving an insignificant part of it for the Jews. The White Paper also enforced strict […]
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Both the Arabs and the Jews rejected the report of the ‘Peel Commission’, but the British government welcomed it and agreed in principle to its suggestion of partition of Palestine. Later, in 1938, to study in detail the recommendations of the Peel Commission report and to examine the practicality about its main recommendation of the […]
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‘Next year in Jerusalem….’ Over the years and in fact for the last many centuries, these are the words with which the Jews (of the ‘Jewish diaspora’) in any corner of the world end the prayers that they say on the occasions of the ‘Passover’ and ‘Yom Kippur’. The Jews never tire of expressing these […]
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Having been made to bite the dust at the hands of the Babylonians, the ‘kingdom of Judah’ had now on, to lend itself to their sway. But that was in no way, the end of their misfortune…….. ……..which dealt a worse blow this time? The Babylonians did not stop at plundering ‘the Holy Temple’ unlike […]
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After the Israelites captured Jerusalem, David ceremoniously moved the ‘Tabernacle’ and the ‘Ark of the Covenant’ to the city. Though David was not permitted to undertake the construction of the ‘Holy Temple’, he gradually set about collecting material viz. gold, silver, copper, precious items, rocks and stones of various types that would be required to […]
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Having emerged victorious over 31 kings and having conquered thus, a sizeable part of Canaan, Joshua allocated the land to the ‘Twelve Tribes of Israel’. The moment the Israelites set foot in the land of Canaan, Joshua shifted the ‘Tabernacle’ from Gilgal to Shiloh, which was a centrally located city. The Tabernacle had always occupied […]
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Having crossed the Jordan, the Israelites had camped at Gilgal. It was here that Joshua had, along with the memorial of the Twelve Stones, also got the Tabernacle temporarily erected, the Tabernacle that served to remind the Israelites of God’s constant companionship throughout the time they wandered the desert. It was to be here for […]
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Moses realized his mistake. He accepted it and along with it also, the punishment that God pronounced. He had no complaints. The same punishment was meted out to Aaron as well for being part of the idol and animal worship. He was not going to set foot on the land of Canaan either. It was […]
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