British mandate

How Ze'ev Jabotinsky shaped Israel's Right and liberal democracy - opinion

Jabotinsky represented the core Right wing of the pre-state political battles and campaigns ever since the turn of the 20th century. He stood in opposition to Chaim Weizmann and Ben-Gurion.

 PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a memorial ceremony for Ze’ev Jabotinsky at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, last year.
Nathan Straus

Macy’s magnate Nathan Straus used his fortune to combat disease in New York and Mandatory Palestine

Tel-Aviv building site - Rothschild Park

Israel Electric reveals telegrams showing Tel Aviv power station's role in British political battle

UK PRIME MINISTER Keir Starmer

The UK recognizing Palestine opens the door to lawsuits over crimes during the Mandate - opinion


When UK rabbis realized hassidim drained the swamps of pre-state Israel

Seeing such people tilling the land, draining marshes, and sweating under the sun was a sure sign of the coming redemption for the rabbis of the United Kingdom.

 ‘IT COULD well have been that the UK rabbis were looking at Bnei Brak’: Main street, 1928.

Mahaneh Yehuda market celebrates its 100th birthday - opinion

Jerusalem Affairs: Mahaneh Yehuda was originally registered with the British Mandate authorities in June 1922, meaning the 100th birthday celebrations are delayed.

 THE BUSTLING Mahaneh Yehuda market in Jerusalem turns 100.

Holocaust Remembrance Day: Did the Allies do enough to help the Jews? - opinion

In remembering the Holocaust, there is also a place to recall the behavior of the principal Western allies who came up short in protecting the Jews.

 US PRESIDENT Joe Biden lays a wreath in the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem, last July. It is sometimes forgotten that Washington didn’t declare war on the Nazis – it was Hitler who declared war on the US.

Nahariya hospital implants cardiac pacemaker in 102-year-old woman

Kafri has a birth certificate from the time of the British Mandate that was written in three languages: Hebrew, English and Arabic.

 Rachel Kafri and Prof. Shaul Atar on her follow-up visit after implanting the pacemaker

How should Avraham Stern be remembered? - opinion

The once Zionist renegade is now part of the Israeli mainstream - but was he more terrorist or freedom fighter?

 OVER THE decades since his death, Avraham “Yair” Stern has increasingly edged into the Israeli consensus, says the writer.

Israel needs films about Irgun, Lehi fighting the British - opinion

Why does the history of the Irgun and Lehi have such a poor record of cinema and television treatment?

 JEWISH UNDERGROUND detainees are held at Gilgil Camp, in Kenya.

Jerusalem's Jewish majority has been restored after 100 years - opinion

Jerusalem has been the center of Jewish national and spiritual existence since time immemorial.

 MUSLIM ARMIES conquered Jerusalem in 638 CE. The occupying forces built al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock shrine atop the ruins of the Jewish Temples.

Israeli Stern Group violence in British Mandate: Ann Turton's tragedy

George F. Smith was killed by the Irgun and Stern Group in Jaffa, thrice orphaning Ann. What happened to her?

 ANN TURTON as a young child in Palestine.

Historical treasure hunters find Scottish soldier's tag from World War II in Hadera

A team of volunteers interested in finding historical items and sending them back to museums uncovered tags for a Scottish soldier who served in British Mandate Palestine during WWII.

A man uses a metal detector on the beach.

November 29: Anti-Israel clichés and the 1947 UN vote - analysis

What matters today is that every year on November 29, one of the latest in vogue narratives about 1947 and Israel’s creation is that it was a “settler colonial” enterprise.

 JEWS CELEBRATE in the streets of Tel Aviv moments after the United Nations voted on November 29, 1947 to partition Palestine into two states.