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Mandatory Palestine (1 Nov 1927 – 15 May 1948) Emirate of Transjordan (1 Nov 1927 – 25 May 1946) Jordan (25 May 1946 – 30 September 1950) Israel (15 May 1948 – 23 June 1952) All-Palestine (22 September 1948 – April 1951) West Bank (1 December 1948 – 30 September 1950) Issuance; Central bank: Palestine Currency Board: Printer: Thomas ...
January 1, 1948 50 17–70 Arabs killed in Haifa [1] N/A January 3, 1948 4 3 Jews, 1 Briton killed in Jerusalem [1] Bombing of Arab National Committee HQ January 4, 1948 14 14 Arabs killed; 100 Arabs wounded [36] Semiramis Hotel bombing: January 5, 1948 20 20 Arabs killed in Jerusalem [38] N/A January 5, 1948 14
Starting in the late 1940s and continuing for decades, about 850,000 Jews from the Arab world immigrated ("made Aliyah") to Israel. After the war, only two parts of Palestine remained in Arab control: the West Bank (and East-Jerusalem), annexed by Jordan, and the Gaza Strip occupied by Egypt, which were conquered by Israel during the Six-Day ...
The modern state of Israel was founded in May 1948 in the aftermath of the Holocaust and Second World War but the conflict that has raged between Israelis and Palestinians since can be traced back ...
This is a list of wars and other major military engagements involving Israel.Since its declaration of independence in May 1948, the State of Israel has fought various wars with its neighbouring Arab states, two major Palestinian Arab uprisings known as the First Intifada and the Second Intifada (see Israeli–Palestinian conflict), and a broad series of other armed engagements rooted in the ...
During the British rule in Mandatory Palestine, there was civil, political and armed struggle between Palestinian Arabs and the Jewish Yishuv, beginning from the violent spillover of the Franco-Syrian War in 1920 and until the onset of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
The 1948 Arab–Israeli War (1948–49), known as the "War of Independence" by Israelis and al-Nakba ("the Catastrophe") by Palestinians, began after the UN Partition Plan and the subsequent 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine in November 1947. The plan proposed the establishment of Arab and Jewish states in Palestine.
During the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine and the 1948 Arab–Israeli War that followed, around 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were expelled from their homes, out of approximately 1,200,000 Arabs living in former British Mandate of Palestine, a displacement known to Palestinians as the Nakba. In 1951, the UN Conciliation ...