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League of Nations Mandate in the Middle East under British administration (1920–1948)
Countries, international organizations and legal bodies commonly call the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem the “Occupied Palestinian Territory” because they are parts of the former British Man...
In 1939 the world Jewish population is widely estimated at about 16.6 million, with roughly 9.5 million (57%) living in Europe and about 449,000 in Mandatory Palestine/Israel; Poland alone had about 3...
The label “Palestine” was not invented out of thin air by Rome, but the Roman rebranding of Judaea as Syria Palaestina in the 2nd century CE was a pivotal moment that transformed an older geographic t...
The name “Palestine” has ancient literary roots — Herodotus used Palaistine in the 5th century BCE to describe a district of Syria (earliest incontrovertible attestation) . The term functioned for mil...
Jewish migration to Palestine during and after World War II was driven primarily by the Zionist movement’s political project, the collapse of safety for Jews in Europe after the Holocaust, and the spe...
The territory commonly called Palestine has been governed at different times by local kingdoms and a long succession of empires: ancient Israelite and Philistine polities, Assyrian and Babylonian conq...
Before 1948, the lands now called Israel/Palestine were inhabited by multiple long-standing communities with deep local roots: Arab Palestinian villages and towns (Muslim, Christian and Druze), a cont...
Zionism is a modern Jewish nationalist movement that sought and achieved a Jewish state in historic Palestine in 1948, and that foundational achievement is a central root of the Israeli–Palestinian co...
The British Mandate shaped Jewish immigration to Palestine after World War II through a mix of legal frameworks, policy restraints, and geopolitical calculations that both and indirectly stimulated cl...
By 1939 the Jewish population in Mandatory Palestine was on the order of several hundred thousand—commonly reported between roughly 385,000 and 445,000—while Europe still contained the largest share o...
Archaeological layers in Palestine show human habitation from the Paleolithic and Natufian periods through Bronze, Iron, Roman, Byzantine and Islamic eras, with continuous material culture at sites su...
The best contemporary estimates for the British Mandate’s population in the mid-1940s show a , but the exact ratio varies by source and method. Using widely cited 1945–1946 tallies, the Palestinian-to...
The Holocaust produced a large population of Jewish displaced persons intent on leaving Europe, and many sought Mandatory Palestine as their primary destination—resulting in a dramatic rise in both la...
The 1948 war transformed the UN’s 1947 partition map into the 1949 armistice lines: Israel controlled roughly 77–78% of Mandatory Palestine (expanding beyond the UN plan), while Egypt and Transjordan ...
Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 as a modern Hebrew-speaking Jewish suburb of the ancient port city of Jaffa and from its earliest decades developed as an explicitly Hebrew/Jewish urban project rather tha...
Between 1922 and 1945 Mandatory Palestine’s population rose from roughly 757,000 (1922 census) to about 1.8 million by 1945, driven overwhelmingly by natural increase (high birth rates and falling mor...
The supplied analyses converge on a centennial historical root for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, highlighting the , British Mandate-era policies, the , and later wars as pivotal events that produc...