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World War I left Palestine, especially the countryside, deeply impoverished. [31] The Ottoman and then the Mandate authorities levied high taxes on farming and agricultural produce and during the 1920s and 1930s this together with a fall in prices, cheap imports, natural disasters and paltry harvests all contributed to the increasing ...
Mandatory Palestine [a] [5] was a geopolitical entity that existed between 1920 and 1948 in the region of Palestine under the terms of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine. After an Arab uprising against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War in 1916, British forces drove Ottoman forces out of the Levant . [ 6 ]
5 January - The left-wing political party Mapai is founded by the merger of the Hapoel Hatzair (founded by A. D. Gordon) and the original Ahdut HaAvoda (founded in 1919 from the more moderate, right-wing of the Marxist Zionist socialist Russian party Poale Zion, led by David Ben-Gurion).
1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; Subcategories. ... Pages in category "1930s in Mandatory Palestine" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 ...
1:250,000 administrative maps (see here): the 1:250,000 administrative map, in three sheets, followed the 1:100,000 map "Palestine Index to Villages & Settlements" (see here), an administrative map without relief, usually on a single-sheet 1:250,000 scale, was often used as a base for overprinted thematic maps. [27]
Since 1998, football's world governing body FIFA have recognized the Palestine national football team as a separate entity. On 26 October 2008 Palestine played their first match at home, a 1–1 draw against Jordan in the West Bank. In December 2010-January 2011 Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia and Paraguay recognized a Palestinian state.
Palestine maps stored at Wikimedia Commons - contains a few usable historical maps. Palestine maps at Passia. This resource includes an inaccurate (but ubiquitous) map of the Palestine Mandate territory but an otherwise useful collection. Palestine maps at Palestine Remembered. Some useful high resolution maps; an unparalleled resource on Arab ...
11 Arabs, 2 Britons killed [1] [36] Uri Milstein reported 15 casualties from the bombing in the Palestine Post. [37] Haifa Oil Refinery massacre: December 30, 1947 39 Arabs beat 39 Jews to death and injured 49 after an Irgun bombing which killed 6 [1] Balad al-Shaykh massacre: January 1, 1948 50 17–70 Arabs killed in Haifa [1] N/A January 3 ...