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So far, we’ve discovered what Israel was before 1948 and how it became independent. Here is a summary of what we’ve discussed: Israel was a union of 12 tribes that descended from Jacob, also known as Israel.
In 1948, the Israeli Declaration of Independence sparked the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, which resulted in the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight and subsequently led to waves of Jewish emigration from other parts of the Middle East.
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Ottoman Rule in Palestine begins; Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire through 1917. (Read more on history of Palestinians here.)
Petah Tikva founded by religious Orthodox Jews (known as the “Old Yishuv”) as a Jewish agricultural settlement. It would turn into a Zionist settlement by 1882.
Pogroms, organized massacres of Jews, sweep through the Russian Empire through 1884. This includes theKiev Pogrom, considered the worst in this wave. Authorities made no attempts to stop the violence against Jews that lasted months. The flow of Jews to cities in the Russian Empire turned into a flood. Jews began to leave the Pale of the Settlementa...
Rosh Pinafounded by 30 families who immigrated from Romania. It was one of the first modern Jewish agricultural settlements in Palestine. Rishon LeZion founded(“First to Zion”) by Zionist pioneers. Baron Edmond de Rothschild(of Paris) agreed to donate a series of subsidies to the settlement; they wouldn’t have survived without him. First Aliyah sta...
Neve Tzedekfounded by Mizrahi Jewish families who wanted to move out of Jaffa; it’s the first Jewish neighborhood built outside Jaffa, and it would eventually be incorporated into Tel Aviv.
The term “Zionism” (and “Zionist”) is coined by Nathan Birnbaum. (Read more on what Zionism means here.)
Dreyfus Affair begins: Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish French army captain, was accused of espionage, arrested, and convicted by a military court for supposedly selling French military secrets to the Germans. Two years after his arrest, evidence was found exonerating Dreyfus. The French army tried to cover it up, but it eventually leaked to the pr...
Herzl publishes “The Jewish State”:Largely shaped by his experiences at the Dreyfus trial, Herzl writes a pamphlet where he lays out his hope for a Jewish state and the need to answer the “Jewish question.” It’s part analysis of anti-Semitism, part plan for a new Jewish state. Herzl doesn’t think that a Jewish state necessarily needs to be in Pales...
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First Zionist Congress meetsin Basel, Switzerland, convened by Theodor Herzl. Sets out a Zionist platform, also known as the Basel Program, the first manifesto of the Zionist movement. It established that “Zionism seeks to establish a home for the Jewish people in Palestine secured under public law.” World Zionist Organization is founded.
Jewish National Fundestablished by the Fifth Zionist Congress, an organization with the purpose of buying and developing land in Ottoman Palestine.
In 70 CE, the Second Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed by the Roman Empire, effectively ending Jewish rule in the Land of Israel until 1948. While the Jewish population was not given a decree to leave the land, the conditions, such as the fiscus Judaicus, a special tax imposed on Jews, were grave enough to convince most residents to disperse ...
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- Still, some Jews did remain in Palestine. Bar Kochba led a small band of Jews in a revolt against the Romans from 132-135 CE in response to the bui...
- In 1099, Crusaders arrived in Palestine and created a Christian kingdom in Jerusalem that lasted until 1187. The Crusaders banned Jews from living...
- The Ottoman Empire conquered Palestine in 1517 and held it until the empire’s decline at the end of World War I. The Ottomans, though practicing Mu...
Nov 20, 2018 · Between 1896 and 1948, hundreds of thousands of Jews resettled from Europe to what was then British-controlled Palestine, including large numbers forced out of Europe during the Holocaust.
Feb 1, 2024 · Feb. 1, 2024. One year matters more than any other for understanding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In 1948, Jews realized their wildly improbable dream of a state, and Palestinians...
Israel usurped all of Palestine in 1948. Before 1948, the Palestinian Arabs were never offered a state. The UN should have created a unitary Palestinian state. Arab leaders were prepared to compromise to avoid bloodshed. The Jews started the war with the Arabs in 1948. The United States was the only nation that criticized the Arab attack on Israel.
