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1919 In British-administered Palestine
Events in the year 1919 in British-administered Palestine (British-controlled part of OETA territory). Events * 3 January – The signing of the Faisal Weizmann Agreement by Emir Feisal (son of the King of Hejaz) and Chaim Weizmann (later President of the World Zionist Organization) as part of the Paris Peace Conference, 1919. * 22 January to 10 February – First meeting of the Palestine Arab Congress held in Jerusalem. * 26 February – The first official meeting of the Zionist General Council. * 8 August – The newspaper Doar HaYom is founded. Notable births * 19 April – Haneh Hadad, Israeli Arab police officer and member of Knesset. * 8 May – Aharon Remez, Israeli civil servant, politician and diplomat, and second commander of the Israeli Air Force (died 1994). * 10 June – Haidar Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian Arab physician, and later politician (died 2007). * 1 July – Nissim Eliad, Israeli politician (died 2014). * 2 August – Nehemiah Persoff, Jerusalem-born Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandatory Palestine
Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 in the region of Palestine under the terms of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine. During the First World War (1914–1918), an Arab uprising against Ottoman rule and the British Empire's Egyptian Expeditionary Force under General Edmund Allenby drove the Ottoman Turks out of the Levant during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign. The United Kingdom had agreed in the McMahon–Hussein Correspondence that it would honour Arab independence if the Arabs revolted against the Ottoman Turks, but the two sides had different interpretations of this agreement, and in the end, the United Kingdom and France divided the area under the Sykes–Picot Agreementan act of betrayal in the eyes of the Arabs. Further complicating the issue was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zionist General Council
Zionist General Council (ZGC) ( he, הוועד הפועל הציוני) (HaVa'ad HaPoel HaTzioni) is the supreme institution of the Zionist movement. The ZGC was established in 1921 following a decision reached at the 11th World Zionist Congress. It is composed of members elected at the World Zionist Congress and representatives of Zionist organizations. The council has 25–30 members. The ZGC is responsible for implementing decisions reached at the World Zionist Congress and the administration of the Zionist movement. In 2010, Helena Glaser, President of World WIZO, was unanimously elected chairperson of the Zionist General Council at the 36th World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem. Past chairmen * 1921–1925: Tzvi-Peretz Hayot * 1925–1933: Leo Motzkin * 1935–1941: Menachem Ussishkin * 1946–1949: Stephen Samuel Wise * 1949–1959: Yosef Sprinzak * 1959–1961: Berl Locker * 1961–1968: Ya'akov Tzur * 1968–1971: Ehud Avriel * 1972–1978: Yitzhak Navon Yitzhak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra (28 August 1919 – 12 December 1994) ( ar, جبرا ابراهيم جبرا) was a Iraqi-Palestinian author, artist and intellectual born in Adana in French-occupied Cilicia to a Syriac Orthodox Christian family. His family survived the Seyfo Genocide and fled to the British Mandate of Palestine in the early 1920s. Jabra was educated at government schools under the British-mandatory educational system in Bethlehem and Jerusalem, such as the Government Arab College, and won a scholarship from the British Council to study at the University of Cambridge. Following the events of 1948, Jabra fled Jerusalem and settled in Baghdad, where he found work teaching at the University of Baghdad. In 1952 he was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Humanities fellowship to study English literature at Harvard University. Over the course of his literary career, Jabra wrote novels, short stories, poetry, criticism, and a screenplay. He was a prolific translator of modern Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanna Ben Dov
Hanna Ben Dov (1919 in Jerusalem – 2008 in Paris) was an Israeli abstract painter. Life & Work Ben Dov's father, Ya'ackov Ben-Dov, was a famous Israeli photographer who founded the photography department in the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in 1910. Hannah herself attended Bezalel during the 1940s, and later continued to Camberwell College of Arts in London. After the completion of her formal education she moved to Paris, where she exhibited for the first time in 1948 and has been living and working there since, as a part of the local abstract artists school. She took part in the first French Biennale of 1951, that was held in Menton. Collections Her paintings can be found in several collections, including the French State Collection, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art collection, the Bezalel National Museum collection in Jerusalem and the Rockefeller Museum The Rockefeller Archeological Museum, formerly the Palestine Archaeological Museum ("PAM"; 1938–1967), and which befor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ya'akov Mizrahi
Ya'akov Mizrahi (, 1919 – 13 August 1980) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Agudat Yisrael between 1972 and 1974. Biography Mizrachi was born in Rehovot in 1919 to a family who had made aliyah from Yemen. He was on the Agudat Yisrael list for the 1969 elections, and although he failed to win a seat, he entered the Knesset on 27 November 1972 as a replacement for Shlomo-Ya'akov Gross, who had resigned his seat as part of a rotation agreement. He was a member of Internal Affairs Committee until losing his seat in the 1973 elections. Earlier in the year one of his sons, David, had died during the Yom Kippur War. His other son Eliezer later also became a member of the Knesset for Agudat Yisrael. In 1980 he suffered a heart attack while travelling to Jerusalem. After being found unconscious next to his car, he was taken to Assaf Harofeh Medical Center in Be'er Ya'akov Be'er Ya'akov ( he, בְּאֵר יַעֲקֹב, ''lit.'' Jacob's Well) is a c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 In Israel
Events in the year 2008 in Israel. Incumbents * President of Israel – Shimon Peres * Prime Minister of Israel – Ehud Olmert * President of the Supreme Court – Dorit Beinisch * Chief of General Staff – Gabi Ashkenazi * Government of Israel – 31st Government of Israel Events * January 21 – The Israeli reconnaissance satellite Ofek-8 is launched. * January 21 – The senior lecturers' strike at the Israeli universities ends. * January 30 – The final Winograd Commission report is announced in Binyanei HaUma in Jerusalem. * April 24 – The United States claims North Korea helped Syria build a nuclear reactor at a site destroyed by Israeli forces in September 2007. * April 28 – Israeli satellite Amos-3 is launched into space from the Baikonur Cosmodrome space launch facility in Kazakhstan. * May 4 – Former Finance Minister Avraham Hirschson is indicted with a string of crimes including breach of trust, aggravated fraud, theft, forgery of corporate docum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Binyamin Gibli
Binyamin Gibli (1919 – August 19, 2008) was the head of Israeli Military Intelligence Directorate (Israel), Military Intelligence from June 1950 to March 1955.Shabtai Teveth (1996) ''Ben-Gurion's Spy: The Story of the Political Scandal That Shaped Modern Israel'' Columbia University press, chronology pp. xvii–xxx Gibli was forced to resign in the wake of the Lavon Affair, a failed Israeli operation in Egypt in 1954. Biography Binyamin Gibli was born in Petah Tikva in 1919. His father, Moshe Granzia of Briansk, Russian Empire, immigrated to History of Palestine#Ottoman period, Palestine in May 1914. Granzia settled in Kfar Ganim and changed his name to Gibli. His mother's first name was Yehudit.Shabtai Teveth (1996) ''Ben-Gurion's Spy: The Story of the Political Scandal That Shaped Modern Israel'' Columbia University press, pp. 2–3 Gibli married Esther Pinhassi in 1940 and moved to her family home in Ein Ganim. In 1941 he joined the "Jewish Settlement Police", and the foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menachem Ratzon
Menachem Ratzon (, 5 August 1919 – 12 November 1987) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the first Knesset for Mapam. Biography Born in Petah Tikva shortly after the end of World War I, Ratzon worked in orchards, industry and as a tour guide. He joined the Socialist League of Palestine, Socialist League, which later evolved into Hashomer Hatzair Workers Party and then Mapam. He served on the actions committee of the Histadrut trade union, and was also a member of Petah Tikva's Workers Council, and director of its planning department. He was placed twenty-first on the Mapam list for the 1949 Israeli legislative election, 1949 elections, but missed out on a seat as Mapam won 19 mandates. However, he entered the Knesset on 10 April 1951 as a replacement for Dov Bar-Nir, who resigned his seat. For the 1951 Israeli legislative election, July 1951 elections he was placed seventeenth on the party's list, but lost his seat as Mapam was reduced to 15 seats. He was twenty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nehemiah Persoff
Nehemiah Persoff (August 2, 1919 – April 5, 2022) was an American character actor and painter. He appeared in more than 200 television series, films, and theatre productions and also performed as a voice artist in a career spanning 55 years, beginning after his service in the United States Army during World War II. Persoff got his first part as an extra in ''The Naked City'' (1948). He is best known for roles as Leo in ''The Harder They Fall'' (1956), as Little Bonaparte in ''Some Like It Hot'' (1959), as Rebbe Mendel in '' Yentl'' (1983), and as the voice of Papa Mousekewitz in the animated film ''An American Tail'' (1986) and its sequels. He also made appearances on episodes of ''The Twilight Zone'', ''Gilligan's Island'', ''Hawaii Five-O'', Adam-12 and ''Law & Order''. Biography Early life and training Persoff was born in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine, on August 2, 1919, to Puah (née Holman, 1887–1963) and Shmuel Persoff (1885–1961). His father, who was a silversmith, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nissim Eliad
Nissim Eliad ( he, נסים אליעד; 1 July 1919 – 15 November 2014) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Independent Liberals between 1968 and 1977. Biography Born Nissim Amsalem in Tiberias, Eliad was a member of the Maccabi Hatzair and Betar youth movements, as well as being amongst the youth leadership of Mapai. He studied oriental studies, bible and Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and also studied at a law school, where he was certified as a lawyer. In 1950 he joined the Progressive Party. For the 1965 elections he was on the Independent Liberal list (a party formed by former Progressive Party members after its merger with the General Zionists), but failed to win a seat. However, he entered the Knesset on 23 December 1968 as a replacement for party leader Pinchas Rosen, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haidar Abdel-Shafi
Haidar Abdel-Shafi (Heidar Abdul-Shafi) ( ar, حيدر عبد الشافي June 10, 1919 – September 25, 2007), was a Palestinian physician, community leader and political leader who was the head of the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid Conference of 1991. Background Abdel-Shafi was born in Gaza, one of six children of Sheikh Muheiddin Abdel-Shafi, head of the Higher Islamic Council Waqf and custodian of the holy places in Gaza and Hebron (from 1925–27). He attended primary school in Gaza; secondary education as a boarder at the Arab College in Jerusalem and graduated in 1936. He graduated in 1943 from the American University of Beirut College of Medicine in Beirut. At the University he joined George Habash's Arab Nationalist Movement dedicated to Arab nationalism and the "liberation of Palestine". Political and community service career Pre-1948 Abdel-Shafi worked at the British Mandate of Palestine's Municipal Hospital in Jaffa. In 1944-1945 he joined the Desert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aharon Remez
Aluf Aharon Remez ( he, אהרן רמז, 8 May 1919 – 3 April 1994) was an Israeli civil servant, politician and diplomat, and the second commander of the Israeli Air Force. Biography Born in Tel Aviv in 1919, Remez's father David was Israel's first Minister of Transportation. He joined the Haganah in 1936. Three years later he was sponsored by the Jewish Agency to receive flying lessons in New Jersey. Whilst in the United States he also served as an emissary of the Habonim movement between 1939 and 1942. In December 1942 he joined the Royal Air Force, and trained to fly in Canada. Completed his OTU in the United Kingdom, he was posted to No. 41 Squadron RAF in April 1945 and served as a combat pilot with the unit until March 1946. Following the end of World War II he helped organise illegal immigration from Europe. He was released by the RAF in 1947 and rejoined the Haganah, in which he was appointed operations officer and chief of staff of its air wing, Sherut Avir. In July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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