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There is a portion of those people called Essenes."; [87] (2) On the Life of Moses: "[Moses] conducted his people as a colony into Phoenicia, and into the Coele-Syria, and Palestine, which was at that time called the land of the Canaanites, the borders of which country were three days' journey distant from Egypt."; [88] [89] (3) On Abraham ...
Satellite image of the Palestine region from 2003. The timeline of the Palestine region is a timeline of major events in the history of Palestine. For more details on the history of Palestine see History of Palestine. In cases where the year or month is uncertain, it is marked with a slash, for example 636/7 and January/February.
A two-state solution to the disputed territory almost came into being in 1947, when the UN General Assembly volunteered Resolution 181, which proposed carving a new state from Palestine west of ...
Between 1882 and 1903, approximately 35,000 Jews moved to Palestine, known as the First Aliyah. [180] In the Russian Empire, Jews faced growing persecution and legal restrictions . Half the world's Jews lived in the Russian Empire, where they were restricted to living in the Pale of Settlement .
The region today: Israel, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights The history of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict traces back to the late 19th century when Zionists sought to establish a homeland for the Jewish people in Ottoman-controlled Palestine, a region roughly corresponding to the Land of Israel in Jewish tradition.
The Palestinian Liberation Organisation was founded in Cairo in 1964, dedicated to fighting for the ”liberation of Palestine” through armed revolution rather than dwelling on rights issues, a ...
Palestinian Jews were expert glassmakers whose wares became known as "Jewish glass" in Europe. [221] Palestine was also known for its book production and scribal work. [222] The Muslims invested much effort in developing a fleet and in restoring seaports, creating shipyards, fortifying coastal cities, and in establishing naval bases in ...
The Jews of Palestine were not exclusively of Iberian origins, and included substantial Yiddish speaking communities who had established themselves in Palestine centuries earlier. [5] Workers in Kerem Avraham neighborhood of Jerusalem (between 1852 and 1862) Jews in 'Ben Zakai' house of prayer, Jerusalem, 1893. Jews of Jerusalem, 1895.