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The Jewish Light Jerusalem, Israel: 1950–Present Weekly Started in 1923 in New York Kol Mevasser: Yiddish Russia (in 2019, Ukraine) Odessa: 1862-72 Supplemented Ha-Melitz: The Jewish Chronicle: English United Kingdom 1841–Present Longest running Jewish paper Jewish Telegraph: English 1950–Present Jewish Tribune (UK) English, Yiddish 1962 ...
The failure of the Bermuda Conference prompted U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, the only Jewish member of Franklin D. Roosevelt's cabinet, to publish a white paper entitled Report to the Secretary on the Acquiescence of this Government to the Murder of the Jews. [72] This led to the creation of a new agency, the War Refugee ...
The paper called for the establishment of a Jewish national home in an independent Palestinian state within 10 years, rejecting the idea of the creation of a Jewish state and the idea of partitioning Palestine. It also limited Jewish immigration to 75,000 for 5 years, and ruled that further immigration was to be determined by the Arab majority ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Plan Dalet Part of 1948 Palestine war and Nakba Zones controlled by Yishuv before and after the implementation of the Plan Dalet. Type Ethnic cleansing Location Mandatory Palestine Planned by Jewish Agency and Haganah Commanded by David Ben Gurion Target Palestinian Arab villages and cities Date ...
' the Jewish Settlement in the Land of Israel ') was the community of Jews residing in Palestine prior to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. The term came into use in the 1880s, when there were about 25,000 Jews living in that region, and continued to be used until 1948, by which time there were some 630,000 Jews there. [ 1 ]
By 1939, the British had issued the White Paper, which severely restricted Jewish immigration to Palestine, deeply angering the Zionist leadership. David Ben-Gurion , then chairman of the Jewish Agency , set the policy for the Zionist relationship with the British: "We shall fight the war against Hitler as if there were no White Paper, and we ...
The MacDonald letter, also known in contemporary Arabic sources as the Black Letter (Arabic : الورقة السوداء), was a letter from British prime minister Ramsay MacDonald to Chaim Weizmann on 13 February 1931 regarding the passage of the Passfield white paper, which recommended restrictions on Jewish immigration to Palestine, as well as Jewish purchases of land in Palestine.
Aliyah Bet (Hebrew: עלייה ב', "Aliyah 'B'" – bet being the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet) was the code name given to illegal immigration by Jews, many of whom were refugees escaping from Nazi Germany or other Nazi-controlled countries, [1] [2] and later Holocaust survivors, [1] [3] [4] to Mandatory Palestine between 1920 and 1948, [1] in violation of the restrictions laid out in ...