Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Palestinian Jews or Jewish Palestinians (Hebrew: יְהוּדִים פָלַסְטִינִים; Arabic: اليهود الفلسطينيين) were the Jews who inhabited Palestine (alternatively the Land of Israel) prior to the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel on 14 May 1948.
In the late nineteenth century, prior to the rise of Zionism, Jews are thought to have comprised between 2% and 5% of the population of Palestine, although the precise population is not known. [90] Jewish immigration had begun following the 1839 Tanzimat reforms; between 1840 and 1880, the Jewish population of Palestine rose from 9,000 to ...
Parkes: [19] Est. 150,000–400,000 Jews in all Palestine; Crown et al.: Palaestina Prima only, which did not include Galilee, had a population of 700,000, incl. 100,000 Jews and 30–80,000 Samaritans, [20] with the remaining 520-570,000 Chalcedonian and Miaphysite Christians. Gil: Jews and Samaritans together likely still formed a majority in ...
March 11, 1948 13 13 Jews killed [1] N/A March 14, 1948 7 7 Jews killed near Faluja [1] N/A March 14, 1948 5 4 Arabs, 1 Jew killed in Tiberias [1] N/A March 18, 1948 9 5 Britons, 4 Jews killed in convoy near Acre [1] N/A March 20, 1948 7 7 Jews killed at Ein Harod [1] N/A March 21, 1948 6 6 Jews killed on Rosh Pinna-Safed road [1] N/A March 22 ...
While there were only around 3,000 Jews living in Palestine at that time, wealthy benefactors such as French aristocrat Baron Edmond de Rothschild began to sponsor others from Europe to join them ...
By the end of the mandate, more than half the Jewish-owned land was held by the two largest Jewish funds, the Jewish National Fund and the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association. By the end of the British Mandate period in 1948, Jewish farmers had cultivated 425,450 dunams of land, while Arab farmers had 5,484,700 dunams of land under ...
Gaza City, situated along the Mediterranean coast, was part of the Seleucid Empire during the Hellenistic period, and later came under Roman rule. [3] During the Hellenistic period, which began with the conquests of Alexander the Great in the late 4th century BCE, there was a large Jewish population in nearby Judea, and Jewish communities also existed in other parts of the region.
On May 14, 1948, at the end of the British Mandate, the Jewish People's Council gathered in Tel Aviv and the chairman of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, [22] declared the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel. [23] U.S. President Harry Truman recognised the State of Israel de facto the following day.