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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Even after the efforts of the two ‘British Royal Commissions of Inquiry’, namely the ‘Peel Commission’ and the ‘Woodhead Commission’, appointed by the British government, there were no signs of any resolution to the deadlock between the Arabs and the Jews in Palestine. Reports of both the commissions were rejected by the Arabs and also […]
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In 1936, a ‘British Royal Commission of Inquiry’ – the ‘Peel Commission’ that came to Palestine to investigate the Arab-Jew riots, outlined several recommendations. Among them, the key recommendation was – The British tried their best to meet the demands of two opposing sides. However, the effort has failed, and the ‘British Mandate’ appears to […]
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Between 1933 and 1945, when the Jews in Germany were facing the Nazi atrocities, Palestine too was witnessing numerous happenings. In the meantime, the fifth ‘Aliyah’ happened during 1930-36, which brought with it some 170 thousand Jewish people to Palestine from across the globe. Overall, they now numbered well above 382 thousand. In 1935, David […]
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The Arab-Jew riots of 1929 in Jerusalem gradually quelled but only after consuming the lives of numerous Jews and after extensive damages to their properties and synagogues. Though everything seemed normal, it was superficial. The mutual anger in the minds of people on both the sides continued to rage unabated. The Arabs resorted to boycotting […]
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The 1920s was a decade proving to have special importance not only for the Jews but also for the Middle East as a whole. Importantly, the events of this decade had profound effects on the future of Israel. The first important happening at the start of the decade was the birth of Turkey. The Ottoman […]
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The British rule over Palestine began from the year 1918. Immediately after winning the world war, Britain placed the territory under the military rule which was later replaced in 1921 by a civilian administration. As a consequence of the relentless efforts by Theodore Herzl and by the Zionist Organization that he had founded, due to […]
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The number of Jews returning to Jerusalem from various parts of the world crossed 40 thousand between 1904 and 1914 and the world witnessed the second wave of the ‘Aliyah’. The relentless efforts of the Zionist Organization founded by Theodore Herzl had indeed culminated in success. During the times of the Holy Temple, the city […]
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Theodore Herzl passionately set about the mission of propagating Zionism. Having established the ‘Zionist Organization’, he went on in August 1897, to organize the ‘First Zionist Congress’ at Basel in Switzerland. More than two hundred invitees from various countries attended the Congress apart from representatives of some of the leading news agencies of the world. […]
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