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Tom Derek Bowden at Arnhem, Netherlands. (via UK Jewish News)
From the WebJune 12, 2019, 9:53 am
Non-Jewish UK soldier who fought for Israel in 1948 dies at 97
Cavalry officer Tom Derek Bowden was one of 5,000 foreigners who volunteered to help establish the Jewish state as part of a group known as ‘Machal,’ UK Jewish News reports
Nazi SS officer Leopold von Mildenstein (Courtesy)
May 2, 2019, 10:05 pm
When a Nazi toured the Holy Land to find a solution for the ‘Jewish problem’
SS officer Leopold von Mildenstein visited British Mandatory Palestine and met with local Jews in 1933. His signature was recently discovered in a Jerusalem guestbook
By Jonah Mandel
Orde Wingate played a key role in creating Israel's military ethos. He was remembered in March 2012 at a ceremony in Jerusalem. (photo credit: Matti Friedman/Times of Israel)
March 23, 2019, 8:05 am
75 years after his death, why Orde Wingate remains a hero in Israel
Bible-toting, raw-onion-eating British officer killed in a plane crash in Burma on March 24, 1944, has been called the father of the Israel Defense Forces
By Hillel Kuttler
Raymond Knops, Dutch state secretary for interior affairs. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
February 13, 2019, 7:52 am
Dutch allow ‘Palestine’ place of birth to those born pre-1948 in British mandate
Netherlands says move does not constitute recognition of Palestinian statehood, replaces ‘unknown country’ listing
By JTA
Edwin Montagu/ Lord Balfour's writing desk, at Beit Hatfutsot, the Museum of the Jewish People, Tel Aviv (Ziko/Wikipedia)
February 9, 2019, 2:49 pm
How a curious love triangle spurred UK’s cabinet to pass the Balfour Declaration
Back in 1917, Jewish Cabinet minister Edwin Montagu furiously blocked declaring Palestine a Jewish homeland, but his marriage to a former PM’s fatal attraction shifted the scales
By Robert Philpot
Britain's Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt leaves 10 Downing Street in London on November 14, 2018. (Tolga AKMEN / AFP)
From the WebJanuary 30, 2019, 2:07 pm
UK Foreign Sect: 1939 cap on Jews’ immigration to Palestine a ‘black moment’
Jewish News reports Jeremy Hunt makes historic admission of regret over British policy at Conservative Friends of Israel reception; bilateral relations heralded as ‘very strong’
By Justin Cohen
In this September 26, 1918, photo, a US Army 37-mm gun crew man their position during the World War One Meuse-Argonne Allied offensive in France. (AP Photo, File)
October 28, 2018, 6:44 pm
How World War I shaped the 20th century and beyond
The ‘war to end all wars’ turned out to be the opposite, as the post-war settlement provided fertile ground for the rise of Nazism and its horrors
By Pierre GLACHANT
Mouli and Edna Azrieli, the owners of Fink's, a legendary Jerusalem bar, now part of the 'London in Jerusalem' exhibit at the Tower of David Museum, open until December 2018. (Courtesy, Oded Antman)
May 30, 2018, 4:20 pm
Jerusalem visits ye olde British mandate era for a spot of nostalgia
Tower of David marks the centennial of English control in pre-state Palestine with two new exhibits
By Jessica Steinberg
From the "Survivors' Haggadah" written for the 1947 Survivors' Seder in Munich, Germany (Courtesy National Library of Israel)
March 27, 2018, 9:21 pm
Post-Holocaust Haggadahs reflect altered versions of slavery and freedom
An exhibit at Israel’s National Library highlights themes of nontraditional Passover Seders in post-war Europe and pre-state Palestine
By Jessica Steinberg
Detail from travelogue poster for 'With Allenby in Palestine' and 'Lawrence in Arabia' by Lowell Thomas. (Courtesy)
December 21, 2017, 4:07 am
How the 1917 Battle of Jerusalem surrender flag ended up in Greenville, Ohio
From the Jaffa Gate to a small Midwestern museum, an artifact representing the creation of the modern Middle East makes an incredible journey
By Marshall Weiss
Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and Felixstowe at The Tower of David Museum, December 10, 2017 (Ricky Rachman)
December 11, 2017, 9:38 am
100 years later, Allenby returns to Jerusalem
The Old City’s Tower of David Museum launches an exhibit in honor of the centennial of the capture of the Holy City from the Ottoman Turks by British forces
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Alison Pick (Emma Lee Photography)
October 21, 2017, 6:12 am
Acclaimed Canadian author explores dark side of pioneers’ Zionist utopia
On first Israel visit, Alison Pick delves into human drama of early 1920s kibbutz life to write her compelling new novel, ‘Strangers with the Same Dream’
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A Palestinian poster campaign planned for the Balfour centenary in the UK (Palestine Mission to the UK)
October 18, 2017, 9:18 am
Anti-Balfour Declaration posters banned from London underground, buses
Banners showing contrasting images of Palestinians before and after 1948 fail to meet guidelines for sensitive issues
By Stuart Winer
Children posing for a photo in hats that read 'Exodus 1947' in a displaced persons camp in Germany, September 1947. (Robert Gary/via JTA)
October 7, 2017, 2:52 pm
Incredible photos of Holocaust survivors from the SS Exodus up for auction
Under the hammer on October 31, journalist Robert Gary’s album of post-Holocaust life in DP camps is one of the highest-quality records to survive
By Andrew Tobin
Part of the draw for scholars attending the 17th World Congress of Jewish Studies at Hebrew University in Jerusalem on August 6-10, 2017, is the chance to catch up with old friends. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)
August 10, 2017, 4:46 pm
At 70, Jerusalem’s Jewish Studies ‘Olympics’ still a good brain workout
Held every four years, the World Congress of Jewish Studies brings together the field’s finest with those who want to walk in their footsteps
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
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