Director of Harvard’s Center for Jewish Studies Derek Penslar gave this year’s Hannah A. Quint Lecture in Jewish Studies, ...

Senior Palestinian officials loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas are meeting to vote on the creation of a vice presidency and ...

But in 1947, when the UN split the mandate of Palestine, its population was largely Arab. The UN gave 56% of the whole mandate area to the new Jewish state, and 43%, including the West Bank ...

This shift follows a mandate from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), which has required mobile carriers to display geospatial coverage maps online. Currently, all major telecom ...

Participants in a 'United for Israel' march, led by The Pursuit NW Christian Church, stand on the University of Washington's campus in May 2024. Jason Redmond/AFP via Getty Images ...

With the British victory over the Ottoman Empire, the area soon fell under British control in the form of the League of Nations’ Mandate for Palestine ... aspirations. In 1947, on the eve ...

But the British would have none of it. London announced that it still intended to surrender its Palestine mandate on May 15, withdraw its last troops by Aug. i. Snapped a Colonial Office spokesman ...

Once, all of Israel was occupied by the Ottomans. The British ceded 76% of their Palestine Mandate to Trans-Jordan. Israel has been existent since ten thousand BCE. The Jews lived in the area from the ...