Tag: British Mandate
Mike Huckabee channels Golda Meir
When former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador-designate to Israel, appears at his Senate confirmation hearing, he’s sure to run into some harsh questions from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and other critics of...
‘Soundtrack of our lives,’ KKL-JNF releases photos of poet Hayim Nahman Bialik
The Hebrew poet Hayim Nahman Bialik died on July 4, 1934—158 years after the adoption of the American Declaration of Independence. As the anniversary of his death approaches on this year’s U.S. Independence Day,...
This land is whose land?
“This land is your land, this land is my land,” quoting from the famous song by American folk singer Woody Guthrie, continues to resonate in the Middle East, where Israel fights a bloody battle...
German official urged to resign after calling British officer Israeli ‘war criminal’
A German official has been pressed to resign or be fired immediately for making accusations about a decorated World War II British Army hero and icon in Israel, reported Fox News.
Michael Blume, commissioner against anti-Semitism...
Executed Irgun fighter’s tefillin found after 75 years
Decades after they were lost, the tefillin (phylacteries) of Irgun fighter Dov Gruner, who was hanged by the British in 1947 after being caught during a raid on the Ramat Gan police station, are...
Erich Isaac, 93, fighter for Israel’s independence, Zionist activist, prominent geographer
One of the last of the Jewish Fighters for the Freedom of Israel (Lehi) and first chairman of Americans for A Safe Israel (AFSI) passed away on Nov. 5. He was 93 years old.
Dr....
National Library of Israel digitizes personal effects, poetry of Hannah Senesh
In celebrating 100 years since the birth of Jewish war hero and poet Hannah Senesh (Szenes), the National Library of Israel has digitized dozens of items from her recently acquired archive, many of them never previously...
KKL-JNF releases never-before-seen photos of Jerusalem
In honor of the 54th anniversary of Israel’s liberation of Jerusalem in the Six-Day War, Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF) has released four photos from the days of the British Mandate before the...
Archival collection of Hannah Senesh comes to National Library of Israel
In 1944, the Jewish, Hungarian-born paratrooper Hannah Senesh (Szenes) was parachuted into occupied Europe by the British in a desperate attempt to save Hungarian Jews from the Nazi death camps. Captured, tortured and executed...
The San Remo Conference, a century on
This month marks the 100th anniversary of the San Remo Conference. The international meeting was held by the Allied Supreme Council in the Italian Riviera in the aftermath of World War I, and determined...