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3 unusual facts about Herbert Samuel


Abdullah Badran

Abdullah Badran (1983-February 25, 2005) was a Palestinian suicide bomber who killed five civilians and injured over fifty when he blew himself up at the entrance to "Stage", a popular Tel Aviv nightclub, on the corner of Herbert Samuel and Yonah Hanavi streets, opposite the Israeli beachfront.

Sea of Galilee

The High Commissioner of Palestine, Herbert Samuel, had sought full control of the Sea of Galilee.

Thomas Hill Green

Green was directly cited by many social liberal politicians, such as Herbert Samuel and H. H. Asquith, as an influence on their thought.


Edgar Granville, Baron Granville of Eye

Becoming a Liberal National for the 1931, he served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to then Home Secretary, Sir Herbert Samuel, then to Sir John Simon, Foreign Secretary, in the National Governments of the 1930s.

Orient Fair

Among the visitors at fairs since 1924, sometimes even opened and locked them were high commissioners Herbert Samuel, Herbert Plumer, John Chancellor, and Arthur Wauchope and Arab mayors of Jaffa and 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.


see also

Herbert Thomas

Bert Thomas (Herbert Samuel Thomas, 1883–1966), British political cartoonist