Hill 24 Doesn't AnswerHill 24 Doesn't Answer (Hebrew: גבעה 24 אינה עונה, romanized: Giḇʿā 24 ʾĒynāh ʿÔnā, Giv'a 24 Eina Ona), is a 1955 Israelineorealistmelodrama directed by Thorold Dickinson and based on stories by Zvi Kolitz. It is the first feature film produced in Israel, following the establishment of the state in 1948. It was in competition at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Palme d'Or.
1948 Arab–Israeli WarSecond and final stage of the 1948 Palestine warBelligerentsIsraelBefore 26 May 1948:HaganahPalmachHishHIMIrgunLehiDruze militantsAllied Bedouin tribesAfter 26 May 1948:Israel Defense ForcesIDF Minorities UnitForeign volunteers:MahalArab League EgyptAll-Palestine ProtectorateHoly War ArmyTransjordan Iraq SyriaLebanonSaudi ArabiaYemenIrregulars:Arab Liberation ArmyAl-Najjada Druze militantsHoly War ArmyMuslim BrotherhoodCommanders and leadersDavid Ben-GurionYisrael GaliliYaakov DoriYigael YadinMickey Marcus †Yigal AllonYitzhak RabinDavid ShaltielMoshe DayanShimon AvidanMoshe CarmelYitzhak SadehAharon RemezAzzam PashaFaroukAhmed Ali al-MwawiMohamed NaguibAbdallah IJohn Bagot GlubbHabis MajaliMuzahim al-PachachiShukri al-QuwatliAmin al-HusseiniHasan Salama †Fawzi al-QawuqjiHassan al-BannaStrength 29,677 initially; later 117,500 10,000 initially; later 20,000 7,500–10,000 2,000 initially; later 15,000–18,000 2,500–5,000 1,000 800–1,200 (Egyptian command) 300 3,500–6,000Total: 13,000 (initial)51,100–63,500Casualties and losses 6,373 killed(about 4,000 fighters and 2,400 civilians)Arab armies: 3,700–7,000 killedPalestinian Arabs: 3,000–13,000 killed(both fighters and civilians)750,000+ Arabs flee or are expelled from Palestine forming the Palestinian diasporaHundreds of thousands of Jews flee or are expelled from Arab countries, with over 260,000 in Israel by 1951.The 1948 Arab–Israeli War (15 May 1948 – 10 March 1949), also known as the First Arab–Israeli War, followed the civil war in Mandatory Palestine (29 November 1947 – 14 May 1948) as the second and final stage of the 1948 Palestine war.
Academy Award for Best International Feature FilmThe Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States with a predominantly non-English dialogue track.
Hebrew languageHebrew is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and remained in regular use as a first language until after 200 CE and as the liturgical language of Judaism (since the Second Temple period) and Samaritanism. The language was revived as a spoken language in the 19th century, and is the only successful large-scale example of linguistic revival.
Thorold DickinsonThorold Barron DickinsonCBE (16 November 1903 – 14 April 1984) was a British film director, screenwriter, , film producer, and Britain's first university professor of film. Dickinson's work received much praise, with fellow director Martin Scorsese describing him as "a uniquely intelligent, passionate artist... They're not in endless supply."
IsraelIsrael, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. It is bordered by Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east, and Egypt to the southwest. Israel's western coast lies on the Mediterranean Sea, its southern tip reaches the Red Sea, and to the east is Earth's lowest point near the Dead Sea.
Middle EastThe Middle East is a geopolitical region that is generally defined as encompassing all of West Asia except for the Caucasus and including African Egypt and European Turkey. It roughly corresponds with what was historically referred to in Western Europe as the Near East, which was juxtaposed with the Far East. Unlike West Asia's adherence to continental boundaries, the Middle East is demarcated by following political borders.Israeli Declaration of IndependenceThe Israeli Declaration of Independence, formally the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel (Hebrew: הכרזה על הקמת מדינת ישראל), was proclaimed at the Tel Aviv Museum on 14 May 1948 (5 Iyar 5708), at the end of the civil war phase and beginning of the Arab–Israeli War of the 1948 Palestine war, by the Va'ad Leumi led by David Ben-Gurion, the executive head of the World Zionist Organization and chairman of the Jewish Agency for Palestine.
Romanization of HebrewThe Hebrew language uses the Hebrew alphabet with optional vowel diacritics. The Romanization of Hebrew refers specifically to the use of the Latin alphabet to represent Hebrew words. For example, the Hebrew name יִשְׂרָאֵל ('Israel') can be Romanized as Yisrael or Yiśrāʼēl in addition to Israel. Particularly in contexts where the Latin alphabet is the dominant writing system, Romanization and transliteration are often used interchangeably.
English languageWest Germanic languageEnglish is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family that emerged in early medieval England and has since become a global lingua franca. The language is named after the Angles, one of the Germanic peoples who migrated to Britain after the end of Roman rule.
ArabicCentral Semitic languageArabic is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns language codes to 32 varieties of Arabic, including its standard form of Literary Arabic, known as Modern Standard Arabic, which is derived from Classical Arabic.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.