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In 1947, the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was voted for. The leaders of the Jewish Agency for Palestine accepted parts of the plan, while Arab leaders refused it. 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.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Sheikh Ahmed Yassin أحمد ياسين Yassin in 2004 Chairman of the Hamas Shura Council In office 10 December 1987 – 22 March 2004 Deputy Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi Preceded by Position created Succeeded by Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi Personal details Born Ahmed Ismail Hassan Yassin June 1936 (1936-06 ...
The church seen from the paved street leading up to it. Kursi has been identified by tradition as the site of the "Miracle of the Swine", where Jesus healed one or two men possessed by demons by driving these into a herd of pigs (Mark 5:1–20, Matthew 8:28–34, Luke 8:26–39).
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. President of the State of Palestine رئيس دولة فلسطين Coat of arms of Palestine Presidential standard Incumbent Mahmoud Abbas since 15 January 2005 Term length 4 years Renewable Formation 2 April 1989 First holder Yasser Arafat Salary 120,000 USD annually Politics of Palestine ...
Yasser Arafat [a] (4 or 24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), also popularly known by his kunya Abu Ammar, [b] was a Palestinian political leader. He was chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from 1969 to 2004, President of the State of Palestine from 1989 to 2004 and President of the Palestinian Authority (PNA) from 1994 to 2004. [3]
Palestine was celebrated by Arab and Muslim writers of the time as the "blessed land of the prophets and Islam's revered leaders". [315] Muslim sanctuaries were "rediscovered" and received many pilgrims. [316] In 1496, Mujir al-Din wrote his history of Palestine known as The Glorious History of Jerusalem and Hebron. [317]
The minority are members of the Latin or of the Uniate Greek Catholic Church, or—a small number—are Protestants. The Jewish element of the population numbers 76,000. Almost all have entered Palestine during the last 40 years. Prior to 1850 there were in the country only a handful of Jews. In the following 30 years a few hundreds came to ...
The 2 main Jewish leaders, Chaim Weizmann and David Ben-Gurion convinced the Zionist Congress to approve continued negotiations with the British even though it rejected the detailed plan. [28] [29] [30] The Arab leadership in Palestine rejected the conclusions and refused to share any land in Palestine with the Jewish population.