Israel:
Pre-State Israel

Reference

• Origins of Name “Palestine”
• Origins of Palestinian Arabs
• Jewish Claim to Land of Israel
• Footage of General Allenby Entering Jerusalem. December 11, 1917.
• “The Innocents Abroad” by Mark Twain, Excerpts

International Relations

• League of Nations
• Truman Administration
• The Vatican
• Partition Plan

Arab-Jewish Relations

• Pre-State Peace Efforts
• Assassination of Hayim Arlosoroff
• Assassination of of Count Bernadotte
• Arabs in Palestine
• Arab Riots of the 1920s
  • Photographs
• Hebron Massacre (1929)
• The 1936 Riots
  • Photographs
• Berit Shalom
• War of Israeli Independence (1948)

Ottoman & British Rule

• Jewish Immigration to Palestine
• Under Ottoman Rule (1517-1917)
  • Ottoman Rule [Map]
• Nebi Samwil Photos (1917)
• During World War I (1914-1918)
• The British Mandate (1922-1947)
• Atlit Prison Break (1945)
• Acre Prison Break (1947)
• Special Session of GA on Palestine (1947)
• Dunam

Primary Source Documents

• Eleanor Roosevelt: My Round-the-World Adventures (March 1, 1958)
• Speech: The Jewish Homeland and the Palestine Mandate (July 6, 1939)
• Feisal-Frankfurter Correspondence
• Roosevelt-King Saud Correspondence
• The Hussein-McMahon Correspondence
• Martin Buber's Open Letter to Gandhi
• Robert Kennedy's Reports from Palestine
• Statement by UK Foreign Secretary Bevin
• U.S. Proposes Temporary Trusteeship
• The Weizmann-Faisal Agreement
• Zionist Organization Statement on Palestine
• British White Papers

Important Figures

• Ruth Aliav (Kluger)
• Arthur Balfour
• David Ben-Gurion
• Menachem Begin
• Theodor Herzl
• Haj Amin al-Husseini
• Herbert Samuel
• Ze'ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky
• High Commissioners for Palestine

Committees & Conferences

• The Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916)
• The Balfour Declaration (1917)
• King-Crane Commission (1919)
• San Remo Conference (1920)
• The Shaw Commission (1930)
  • The Hope-Simpson Report (1930)
• The Peel Commission (1937)
• The St. James Conference (1939)
• The Biltmore Conference (1942)
• The Anglo-American Committee (1946)

Building a Jewish Army

• Evolution of Jewish Defense in Palestine
• The Altalena Affair
• Jewish Brigade Group
• Jewish Defense Organizations
  • Ha-Shomer
  • LoHamei Herut Israel
  • The Jewish Legion
• Olei Ha-Gardom
• Palestinian Jewish Parachutists
• The Zion Mule Corps of Gallipoli
• Hebrew-Language Clandestine Radio

Zionism

• Table of Contents
• Ahdut Ha-Avodah
• Congress of Berlin
• Bilu
• Bustenai
• The Histadrut
• Jewish Colonial Trust
• Keren Hayesod
• The Labor Battalion
• Palestine Office
• Solel Boneh
• Stockade and Watchtower
• Jewish Settlements
• Va'ad Leumi