The areas that were legally purchased by the Jewish National fund and other organizations later became Israel. These were areas of swampland and desert, which were made habitable by the early Jewish immigrants. It contained most of the west coast, from the Negev in the south, to Haifa in the north.
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Israel.
The British Mandate of Palestine.
The League of Nations approved the British Mandate for Palestine as a national home for the Jewish People as early as 1919.
The name is British Mandate of Palestine.
In 1944, Israel/Palestine was under British sovereignty as the British Mandate for Palestine.
The British Mandate of Palestine was the only mandate with an Arab-Jewish controversy.
Answer 1Israel was created where Palestine used to be.Answer 2In 1917, Lord Balfour described the future British Mandate for Palestine as a possible Jewish National Homeland.
The British ruled the regions would become Iraq, Jordan, Israel, and Palestine as Mandates. From 1919-1921 the only two British Mandates in the Middle East were those of Iraq and Palestine. In 1922, the Mandate of Palestine was divided into the Mandate of Palestine and the Mandate of Transjordan.
Yes they did.
Israel and TransJordan
After World War I, the League of Nations granted Britain a mandate over Palestine. The British Mandate for Palestine was established in 1920 and lasted until 1948. This mandate was intended to facilitate the establishment of a Jewish national home while also ensuring the rights of the existing Arab population.
In the British Mandate of Palestine.
No. It was a British Mandate.