|
1941 In Mandatory Palestine
Events in the year 1941 in the British Mandate of Palestine. Incumbents * High Commissioner – Sir Harold MacMichael * Emir of Transjordan – Abdullah I bin al-Hussein * Prime Minister of Transjordan – Tawfik Abu al-Huda Events * 15 May – The Palmach is established. * 14 July – World War II: The Armistice of Saint Jean d'Acre (also known as the "Convention of Acre") is signed on at the " Sidney Smith Barracks" on the outskirts of the city of Acre, ending the Allied invasion of Vichy French-controlled Syria and Lebanon. * 2 November – The kibbutz of Ramat HaShofet is established. Births * 24 January – Dan Shechtman, Israeli physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics * 25 January – Ya'akov Shefi, Israeli politician * 11 February – Avraham Hirschson, Israeli politician (died 2022) * 13 March – Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian Arab poet and writer of prose (died 2008) * 1 April – Gideon Gadot, Israeli journalist (died 2012) * 1 April – Michael Dezer, ... [...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] |
Armistice Of Saint Jean D'Acre
The Armistice of Saint Jean d'Acre (also known as the Convention of Acre) concluded the Syria-Lebanon Campaign of World War II. The Armistice, signed on 14 July 1941, was between Allied forces in the Middle East under the command of British General Henry Maitland Wilson, and Vichy France forces in Syria and Lebanon, under the command of General Henri Dentz, Commander in Chief of the Army of the Levant (''Armée du Levant'') and as High Commissioner of the Levant. Description Having lost control of the Northern Desert and the Euphrates Province and being threatened with the imminent loss of Beirut, General Dentz decided to ask for an armistice. On the evening of 11 July, British Lieutenant-General Claude Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief of the Middle East Command, received a wireless message from Dentz proposing the suspension of hostilities six hours later, at midnight. General Dentz declared himself ready to engage in talks on the basis of a memorandum presented to him tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
