British mandate

My Word: Still bringing them home - opinion

The remains and personal effects of IDF Sgt. First Class Yehuda Katz had been located and would be buried in Israel – 44 years after he disappeared in the Battle of Sultan Yacoub.

Yehuda Katz.
The ruins of the King David Hotel bombing.

The blast that still echoes: The King David Hotel bombing, 80 years on

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

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

Nathan Straus

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


Is it time now for the ‘Arab Mandate’ for Palestine?

The British Mandate ended in 1947. Then the UN passed the Partition Plan

JEWS CROWD onto a British army armored car as they celebrate in downtown Jerusalem the morning after the United Nations voted to partition British mandate Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state.

U.S. Embassy relocation possible within a year, experts say

VP Pence likely to discuss embassy move during visit.

Friends of Zion welcome US Vice President Mike Pence

Arrival: More than a job – a mission

When he finished medical school, Wilbur earned rabbinic ordination at Yeshiva University’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary.

DR. TZVI WILBUR

MY WORD:Down memory lane with Allenby

Jerusalem went to town commemorating the centennial of Gen. Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby’s entrance into the Holy City on December 11, 1917, marking the end of 400 years of Ottoman rule there.

THE CURRENT Lord Allenby and his mother, Sara Viscountess Allenby, pose for a photo with actors at the reenactment of Allenby’s entrance into the Old City of Jerusalem, along with John Benson and his wife, Christina, in the back row.

Israeli ambassador's recent book changes the perspective of the Holocaust

Itzchak Mayer says that one of the things hindering the Jewish people is the tendency to allow themselves to be seen as victims, both among themselves and by gentiles.

Ambassador Itzchak Mayer

Tilling the land, cultivating one’s self

Israel’s agricultural schools connect kids to nature, history and society

An outdoor lesson in the vegetable garden in the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association (PICA) School in Petah Tikva, between 1920 and 1930.

Founder of the Kaufman Music Center and Holocaust survivor dies at 96

Dr. Tzipora Jochsberger organized music schools in the British Mandate of Palestine and the United States ever since she left Nazi Germany in 1939.

Tzipora Jochsberger

Fundamentally Freund: Balfour and the Jewish Magna Carta

The connection is in fact quite compelling, and it is well worth pondering as we celebrate the centennial of the Balfour Declaration today.

The Balfour Declaration

Sixty-seven words - 100 years of conflict

On the Balfour Declaration's centenary, Elliot Jager argues that while Arab opposition to a Jewish national home remains the crux of the conflict, the nature of Jewish anti-Zionism is unchanged.

Lord Balfour declares the Hebrew University of Jerusalem open in painting by Leopold Pilichowski

Congratulations to Balfour Declaration on 100th Anniversary!

The Jerusalem Post