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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Maps of Ottoman Palestine showing the Kaza subdivisions. Part of a series on the History of Palestine Prehistory Natufian culture Pre-Pottery Tahunian Ghassulian Jericho Ancient history Canaan Phoenicia Egyptian Empire Ancient Israel and Judah (Israel, Judah) Philistia Philistines Neo-Assyrian ...
A 500 mil (£P 1 ⁄ 2) note issued by the Anglo-Palestine Bank in Jaffa in 1948.. The Palestine pound (Arabic: جُنَيْه فِلَسْطَينِيّ, junayh filastini; פונט פלסטיני |funt palestina'i or Hebrew: לירה, romanized: lira Palestinay'it; Sign: £P [1] [2] [improper synthesis?]) was the currency of the British Mandate of Palestine from 1 November 1927 to 14 May 1948 ...
This triggered the 1947–1949 Palestine war and led, in 1948, to the establishment of the state of Israel on a part of Mandate Palestine as the Mandate came to an end. The Gaza Strip came under Egyptian occupation , and the West Bank was ruled by Jordan , before both territories were occupied by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War .
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably. Consider splitting content into sub-articles, condensing it, or adding subheadings. Please discuss this issue on the article's talk page. (February 2025) Visual History of Israel by Arthur Szyk, 1948 Part of a series on the History of ...
Bombing of Palestine in World War II; 1948 Palestine war; 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight; 1949–56 Palestinian exodus. Kfar Qasim massacre; 1967 War; 1967 Palestinian exodus; Battle of Karameh; Black September in Jordan (1970) Lebanese Civil War. 1982 Lebanon War; Sabra and Shatila massacre; Second Intifada (2000–05) Battle of Jenin ...
The coins were conceived, in part, by Israeli graphic designer Otte Wallish. All coins and banknotes issued in Israel before June 1952 were part of the Palestine pound. In 1960, coins were issued denominated in agora. There were 1, 5, 10 and 25 agorot pieces. In 1963, IL 1 ⁄ 2 and IL 1 coins were introduced, followed by IL 5 coins in 1978.
The state of Israel was nevertheless founded under prime minister David Ben-Gurion on 14 May 1948 with the end of the British Mandate, winning immediate recognition from the US and Soviet Union ...
In 1948, following the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine, the Israeli Declaration of Independence sparked the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, which resulted in the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight from the land that the State of Israel came to control and subsequently led to waves of Jewish immigration from other parts of the Middle East.