Monthly Archives: February 2016

Although we just finished covering the close of World War I, I thought it could be useful take another look at General Allenby’s entry into Jerusalem for review purposes later on. This article from the Telegraph offers a slightly more in … Continue reading →

A friend of mine that I went to high school with became an ob/gyn and has worked in both the Philadelphia/Southern New Jersey and Fort Myers, Florida areas. She has been to Haiti several times to volunteer at the free … Continue reading →

In class we could not define ‘Mochav’, here is the best description I could find. Mochav is a type of Israeli town or settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms which were pioneered by the Labour … Continue reading →

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/02/israeli-forces-kill-young-palestinian-woman-hebron-160213113005302.html  On Saturday a seventeen year old Palestinian girl was shot and killed after attemting to stab a Israeli army soldier in Hebron, and Israeli occupied area in the West Bank. The incident occured in Hebron near a shared religious … Continue reading →

http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post%2Fwaiting-for-the-gate-to-open

http://www.midafternoonmap.com/2016/02/century-old-us-map-envisions-united.html European Territorial Claims on Turkey from Europe at Turkey’s Door, The Geographical Review, 1916 “As the French and British were hammering out the Sykes Picot agreement in the spring of 1916, an American geographer named Leon Dominan prepared a … Continue reading →

Here’s a UN memo concerning the October 1948 Dawaymah massacre, which took place during a ceasefire: UNITED NATIONS CONCILIATION COMMISSION FOR PALESTINE TECHNICAL COMMITTEE THE DAWAYMEH MASSACRE

The Brigade of the Free Kassamyin has denounced the execution of Mahmoud Rashid Eshtaiwi by the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades for “behavioral and ethical excesses” without further details. Eshtaiwi had been in charge of tunnels in the eastern part of the … Continue reading →

Jerusalem’s Juvenile District Court indicted two Arab teenagers with a charge of “attempted murder” and the “possession of illegal weapons” as the two are suspected to be responsible for an attack that occurred by the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City (Eisenbud). … Continue reading →

One of a less commonly known Jewish communities is located in what used to be an Emirate of Bukhara untill 1917, and was essentially transformed into Uzbekistan. Bukharan Jews used to number in tens of thousands, but at this point … Continue reading →