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unusual facts about Mandate Palestine



Golomb

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

Hanan Rubin

He was amongst the founders of the Socialist League in 1936, and was a member of the Assembly of Representatives.

Internet Haganah

Haganah is also the name of the early Zionist militia originally formed to defend Jewish settlers in British Mandate Palestine, and which evolved into what is now the Israel Defense Forces.

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.

Zionist Commission

On 19 April 1920, elections were held for the Assembly of Representatives of the Palestinian Jewish community.


see also

Jewish resistance

Jewish Resistance Movement, a Jewish underground movement in Mandate Palestine

Joseph Bentwich

His eldest brother, Norman Bentwich, was a leading British lawyer, who also spent much of his professional life Mandate Palestine and Israel.