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 ...

Thence went he to Cairo, the capi-tal, where he entered a special railway car provided by the Palestine Government and was whisked off across the Suez Canal to Palestine, land of two religions ...

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 ...

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 ...

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