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What part of the British Mandate of Palestine was proclaimed as a Jewish national state in 1948?
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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.
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What land is shared between Israel and Palestine?
The British Mandate of Palestine.
What was decided about Palestine as a home for the Jews?
The League of Nations approved the British Mandate for Palestine as a national home for the Jewish People as early as 1919.
Whose colony was Palestine?
The name is British Mandate of Palestine.
Who occupied Palestine in 1944?
In 1944, Israel/Palestine was under British sovereignty as the British Mandate for Palestine.
What British mandate was the focus of the Arab-Jewish controversy?
The British Mandate of Palestine was the only mandate with an Arab-Jewish controversy.
What was the Jewish national homeland in 1917?
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.
What was Britain's rule in Iraq and Palestine?
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.
Did the local people in British Mandate Palestine have British passports?
Yes they did.
Who did the British give mandate of Palestine to?
Israel and TransJordan
In which Middle Eastern mandate did the Zionist movement seek to restore the Jewish homeland?
In the British Mandate of Palestine.
Was Palestine after the overthrow of the ottoman Turks a free state?
No. It was a British Mandate.
What was Israel called in 1920?
The modern State of Israel came into existence in 1948. In 1940, the area where Israel predominantly sits (excluding the Golan Heights) was called the British Mandate of Palestine. The Mandate of Palestine was not a country, but a colony of the British Empire. What made a mandate different from a colony was that the British had an obligation to help the people living in the territory to form their own government and facilitate independence. In the specific case of the Mandate of Palestine, they were required to do this for the Jews and the Arabs together.
