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unusual facts about British Mandate of Palestine



Battle of Kissoué

On 8 June 1941, troops of the 5th Indian Infantry Brigade Group—under Brigadier Wilfrid Lewis Lloyd—had crossed the Syrian border from the British Mandate of Palestine to take Quneitra and Deraa with the objective of opening the way for Free French forces to advance along the roads from these towns to Damascus.

Charles Robert Ashbee

In 1918 he was appointed civic adviser to the British Mandate of Palestine, overseeing building works and the protection of historic sites and monuments as the chairman of the Pro-Jerusalem Society.

Faris Glubb

Born in Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine as Godfrey Peter Manley Glubb, he was the son of the noted British officer Sir John Bagot Glubb KCB CMG DSO OBE MC, who, as the chief military advisor to the Jordanian military, became known as Glubb Pasha, and his wife, Muriel Rosemary Forbes.

Francis Turville-Petre

Francis Adrian Joseph Turville-Petre (4 March 1901 – 16 August 1941) was a British archaeologist, famous for the discovery of the Homo heidelbergensis fossil Galilee Man in 1926, and for his work at Mount Carmel, in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine, now Israel.

George Antonius

Born in Deir al Qamar in a Lebanese Orthodox Christian family, he served as a civil servant in the British Mandate of Palestine.

Golomb

Eliyahu Golomb, leader of the Jewish defense effort in Mandate Palestine, chief architect and "uncrowned commander" of the Haganah

Isaac Horowitz

Isaac Horowitz was born one of 11 siblings in the British mandate of Palestine, modern Israel, in the city of Safed.

Israeli legislative election, 1949

Suggestions were made of different Electoral Systems, but eventually it was decided to maintain the relative electoral system which existed in the elections for the Assembly of Representatives of the Jewish community in British controlled Palestine, and that the Constituent Assembly elected would be the one to determine the future electoral system in Israel.

Margaret Barber

Unable to continue her charitable work, Barber took up writing under the pseudonym Michael Fairless, the "Michael" inspired by her childhood friend Michael McDonnell (1882–1956), subsequently chief justice of the British Mandate of Palestine.

Master sergeant

The ranks are derived from those of the paramilitary Haganah developed in the British Mandate of Palestine period to protect the Yishuv.

Muslim history in Palestine

On May 14, 1948, one day before the end of the British Mandate of Palestine, the leaders of the Jewish community in Palestine led by prime minister David Ben-Gurion, made a declaration of independence, and the state of Israel was established.

Otto Toeplitz

In 1939 he emigrated to Palestine, where he was scientific advisor to the rector of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading

Along with Alfred Mond and Herbert Samuel, Isaacs was a founding chairman of the Palestine Electric Corporation, precursor to the Israel Electric Corporation in the British Mandate of Palestine.

Ruhama

Two subsequent attempts to re-establish the settlement during the period of the British Mandate were curtailed by the Arab riots in 1929 and 1936.

Sergeant first class

The ranks are derived from those of the paramilitary Haganah developed to protect the Yishuv during the British Mandate of Palestine.

Simon Yakovlevich Rosenbaum

Simon Yakovlevich Rosenbaum (b. 1859 in Pinsk, Russian Empire, d. 1934 in Tel Aviv, Palestine), was a Jewish activist and attorney, member of the First State Duma of the Russian Empire in 1906–1907, Lithuanian Minister for Jewish Affairs from June 29, 1923 to his resignation on February 12, 1924 and Lithuanian consul in Palestine.

Steimatzky

He had originally came to the British Mandate of Palestine on a short visit for the opening of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and decided to stay after he saw the potential in opening a foreign language bookstore that would serve a growing immigrants' market as well as British Army soldiers serving under the British Mandate.

Upper Galilee

Following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the Balfour Declaration in which the British Empire promised to create "A Jewish National Home" in Palestine, the Zionist Movement presented to the Versailles Peace Conference a document calling for including in the British Mandate of Palestine the entire territory up to the Litani river — with a view to this becoming eventually part of a future Jewish state.

Yaacov Levanon

After serving in the Red Army he emigrated in 1919 to Palestine, where he established himself as a composer and music teacher.


see also

Etzel

The common Israeli name for Irgun Tzvai-Leumi, or Irgun, an organization operating in the British Mandate of Palestine from 1931 to 1948.

Jarallah

Hussam ad-Din Jarallah (1884–1954), Sunni Muslim leader of the Palestinian people during the British Mandate of Palestine

Qatra

During its existence as a village in the British Mandate of Palestine it was referred to as Qatrat Islam to distinguish it from the Jewish settlement of Qatrat Yahud or Gedera, as it is called in Hebrew, established in the late 19th century.