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Jun 3, 2024 · Haifa, with its key port and industries, was of great concern to the combatants in the Palestine war of 1948–49. The Arabs and the Haganah, the Jewish defense forces, fought for control of the city, and on April 22, 1948, the Arabs surrendered. Of more than 50,000 Arabs living in Haifa before the war, only about 3,000 subsequently chose to ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jun 1, 2024 · On Thursday evening, dozens gathered in Haifa, a northern port city with a mixed Jewish-Palestinian population. Moments after a protest began, police attacked demonstrators, claiming they were ...
6 days ago · Police arrested 18 suspects for violent offenses on Wednesday as clashes broke out during the Jerusalem Day Flag March, in which tens of thousands of mostly national religious Israelis marched...
1 day ago · JNS. Waiting for war in Haifa. Stories appearing in our World pages originate from aggregated news feeds obtained from various subscription news sources. Metula, Shlomi, Kiryat Shmona, Margaliot ...
May 21, 2024 · Shadow of history. For Rebekah and many other American Jews, the cultural memory of the Holocaust, and the common refrain “Never Again,” inspires their activism for Palestinian rights. “Growing...
- Atalia Omer
2 days ago · Jaffa ( Hebrew: יָפוֹ, romanized : Yāfō, pronounced [jaˈfo] ⓘ; Arabic: يَافَا, romanized : Yāfā, pronounced [ˈjaːfaː] ), also called Japho or Joppa in English, is an ancient Levantine port city founded by the Canaanites that is now part of southern Tel Aviv, Israel.
Jun 2, 2024 · The State of Israel was established in 1948. The UN General Assembly proposed in 1947 partitioning the British Mandate for Palestine into an Arab and Jewish state. The Jews accepted the proposal, but the local Arabs and the Arab states rejected the UN plan and launched a war.
