Israel:
Pre-State Israel

Reference Information

• The Name “Palestine”
• The Origins of the Palestinian Arabs
• The Jewish Claim to the Land of Israel
• Hebrew-Language Clandestine Radio
• Jewish Settlements Established in Palestine
• League of Nations
• The Truman Administration
• The Vatican Opposes Jewish Home

Ottoman & British Rule

• The Acre Prison Break
• The British Mandate
• Immigration to Palestine
• Request for a Special Session of the General Assembly on Palestine
• Under Ottoman Rule (1517-1917)
• Ottoman Rule Before World War II [map]
• During World War I
• Partition Plan

Primary Source Documents

• Feisal-Frankfurter Correspondence
• Roosevelt-King Saud Correspondence
• The Hussein-McMahon Correspondence
• Martin Buber's Open Letter to Gandhi
• Robert Kennedy's Reports from Palestine
• Statement by UK Foreign Secretary Bevin
• U.S. Proposes Temporary Trusteeship
• The Weizmann-Faisal Agreement
• Zionist Organization Statement on Palestine
• British White Papers

Committees & Conferences

• The Sykes-Pico Agreement (1916)
• The Balfour Declaration (1917)
• King-Crane Commission (1919)
• The Shaw Commission (1930)
  • The Hope-Simpson Report (1930)
• The Peel Commission (1937)
• The St. James Conference (1939)
• The Biltmore Conference (1942)
• The Anglo-American Committee (1946)

Building a Jewish Army

• Evolution of Jewish Defense in Palestine
• The Altalena Affair
• Jewish Brigade Group
• Jewish Defense Organizations
  • Ha-Shomer
  • LoHamei Herut Israel
  • The Jewish Legion
• Olei Ha-Gardom
• Palestinian Jewish Parachutists
• The Zion Mule Corps of Gallipoli

Arab-Jewish Relations

• Pre-State Peace Efforts
• Assassination of Hayim Arlosoroff
• Assassination of of Count Bernadotte
• Arabs in Palestine
• Arab Riots of the 1920s
• The 1936 Riots
• Berit Shalom
• War of Israeli Independence (1948)

Important Figures

• Ruth Aliav (Kluger)
• Arthur Balfour
• David Ben-Gurion
• Menachem Begin
• Theodor Herzl
• Haj Amin al-Husseini
• Herbert Samuel
• Ze'ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky
• High Commissioners for Palestine

Zionism

• Table of Contents
• Ahdut Ha-Avodah
• Congress of Berlin
• Bilu
• Bustenai
• The Histadrut
• Jewish Colonial Trust
• Keren Hayesod
• The Labor Battalion
• Palestine Office
• Solel Boneh
• Stockade and Watchtower
• Va'ad Leumi