british mandate

Jerusalem calling: The birth of Mandate-era broadcasting in British Palestine

In 1950, two years after the establishment of the State of Israel, Jerusalem Calling (by now Kol Yerushalayim) merged with Kol Yisrael, which became the country’s official radio station.

This week in Jewish history

July 22, 1920: Keren Hayesod founded, July 24, 1922: League of Nations grants Britain mandate to administer Palestine.

Tel Mond's agricultural history is Sir Alfred Mond's Zionist legacy

Sir Alfred Mond, a Jewish industrialist from England, invested in Eretz Israel in 1917, establishing an agricultural company in the Sharon area, founding communities like Tel Mond.

By ITZIK MAROM
19/05/2024
 Pictures of Yochanan Stahl and Celia Zohar, murdered in 1931.

Murder and rape in the dunes of pre-state Israel: The story of a hike turned horror

They were friends and perhaps wanted to become lovers. They also loved the Land of Israel and set out to walk through it. Tragically, their walk was horrifyingly interrupted.

Thanks to the UN's bias against Israel, Islamic extremism reached Europe

Why do countries not wake up and see what is already happening in European countries, with Islamic enclaves established by the refugees that even the local police are afraid to enter?

By DAVID BEN-BASAT
20/04/2024

The world must be reminded of the Palestinian genocide campaign against Jews

There was a genocide campaign. It was conducted not against ‘Palestine’, but in Palestine, in the Mandate of Palestine.

Forbidden Tel Aviv love in a complicated time

While the movie celebrates the spirit of Tel Aviv 80 years ago, it was actually filmed in Puglia, Italy, where Winterbottom and his team found buildings that were “new, white, and low-rise."

Hebron Pogrom, 1929

This Week in History: Hebron Massacre

67 Jews were killed. Synagogues and homes, lived in for generations, were destroyed.

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.

By LEVI COOPER
29/07/2023
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