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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 624

British Mandate

Inset from 'Chaim Weizmann: A Biography,' published in May 2024. (courtesy)
November 27, 2024, 8:10 am
Israel’s 1st president disdained European Jews, ‘but he was ready to die for them’
Two historians co-author intimate portrait of fallible leader, born exactly 150 years ago, with new details on Chaim Weizmann’s struggles after losing his RAF pilot son in WWII
By Matt Lebovic
A pillbox on Hebron Road in Jerusalem. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
September 14, 2024, 7:27 am
See the British Mandate era pillboxes that dot Israel, evoking its checkered past
The cement guard posts, so-called because of their cylindrical shape, represent an intriguing and often beautiful piece of pre-state Israeli history
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
Reproductions of the coats of arms discovered at the Mt. Zion Hotel. (Anastasia Prokofyeva/IAA)
June 10, 2024, 8:21 pm
Benefactors’ coats of arms revealed on early 20th century Jerusalem building
Images found during renovations of the Mt. Zion Hotel, previously a hospital; the donors, the subject of an upcoming exhibit, included King George V and Edward Cecil Guinness
By Gavriel Fiske
Dalia Varman (right) helps a customer with her selection, at Dalia's Hats in Tel Aviv. (Gavriel Fiske/Times of Israel)
September 23, 2023, 5:39 am
After 80 years, hat shop in old garment district still has Tel Aviv covered
Multi-generational Dalia’s Hats has been at the same Nahalat Binyamin location for decades, remaining essentially the same even as the neighborhood transforms around it
By Gavriel Fiske
Colonial secretary Winston Churchill with Sir Herbert Samuel during a visit to Jerusalem in March 1921. (Public domain)
August 19, 2023, 2:43 pm
Herbert Samuel’s secret 1937 testimony on the infamous mufti of Jerusalem revealed
Newly revealed files show how Palestine’s first high commissioner – a Jew and a Zionist – defended tapping Amin al-Husseini, lamented that ‘Jews can be extremely irritating people’
By Oren Kessler
Journalist Oren Kessler, author of 'Palestine 1936.' (Hadas Parush)
August 18, 2023, 7:21 am
What Matters Now to author Oren Kessler: 1936 Palestine’s missed peace deal
In ‘Palestine 1936,’ Kessler delves into dusty archives to bring to life the overlooked saga of the 3-year Arab Revolt that arguably forms the roots of today’s Middle East conflict
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
The unsolved murder of Haim Arlosoroff is the central focus of 'The Red Balcony' by Jonathan Wilson. (Public domain/ Courtesy)
February 22, 2023, 4:13 am
An early Zionist’s unsolved murder fuels a mystery novel ripped from the archives
The slaying of Haim Arlosoroff 90 years ago remains controversial. What will Jonathan Wilson’s characters make of this unsolvable crime in ‘The Red Balcony,’ on shelves now?
By Robert Philpot
Munib Al-Masri at his home, Beit Falasteen, overlooking Nablus, April 8, 2014. (Suha Halifa/Times of Israel)
October 9, 2022, 6:56 am
Wealthiest Palestinian to demand apology from UK for alleged British Mandate abuse
Munib al-Masri, a former politician and confidante of Yasser Arafat, to submit dossier to London claiming arbitrary killings, torture, other crimes against Arabs during the 1930s
By ToI Staff
A view of the center of Petah Tikva, 1936. Illustrative. (Zoltan Kluger/GPO/The National Photo Collection)
July 29, 2022, 8:34 am
After a century, mystery owners of coveted Petah Tikva plot identified
A central site that contains a historic first well is on course for redevelopment after a global search turns up dozens of collective owners from the US to Sweden
By Danielle Nagler
An 'Enlightenment' scene with guests in the home of Moses Mendelssohn, by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, 1856. (Public domain)
July 16, 2022, 2:40 pm
Epic historical novel digs deep into Zionism’s less probed Western European roots
In ‘The Wealthy,’ Israeli author Hamutal Bar-Yosef uses 200-year saga of fictional German-Anglo Jewish family to highlight different take on how the Jewish state came to be
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Actors playing Israeli soldiers guarding Kibbutz Nitzanim in the Israeli war film 'Image of Victory.' (Netflix)
July 16, 2022, 4:15 am
New Israeli war drama revisits Egypt’s 1948 capture of a kibbutz
Avi Nesher’s ‘Image of Victory,’ now on Netflix, is being billed as the most expensive Israeli movie ever
By Andrew Lapin
A group shot of the main characters in new costume melodrama 'The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem,' coming to Netflix on May 20, 2022 (Courtesy Yes Studios)
April 27, 2022, 6:14 am
Netflix picks up Ottoman-era Israeli drama ‘Beauty Queen of Jerusalem’
First ten episodes drop May 20, with star Michael Aloni dubbing own character into English for international audience
By Jessica Steinberg
Hugo and Lucie Mendel on the balcony of their Tel Aviv apartment prior to Hugo's suicide in 1957. (Courtesy of Emanuel Rosen)
June 19, 2021, 8:03 am
How one brave woman held Germany accountable for father’s suicide in Tel Aviv
In family memoir, ‘If Anyone Calls, Tell Them I Died,’ Emanuel Rosen examines grandfather’s tragic life and death after failed immigration to Israel due to 1930s Nazi persecution
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A man riding his bicycle is reflected on an old picture of Jaffa displayed in a window, in the Jaffa neighborhood of Tel Aviv, Israel, April 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
May 1, 2021, 4:15 pm
1921 Jaffa riots 100 years on: Mandatory Palestine’s 1st ‘mass casualty’ attack
Among the some 150 casualties was Hebrew-language literature giant Yosef Haim Brenner, who was buried with dozens of other slaughtered Jews in a common grave in Tel Aviv
By Oren Kessler
Actors Michael Aloni and Yuval Scharf in 'The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem,' a historical series produced in Israel by Yes Studios. (Courtesy: Nati Levi)
April 13, 2021, 12:45 pm
Trailer drops for summer TV ‘romantic drama’ of pre-state Israel
From the producers of ‘Fauda’ and ‘Shtisel,’ Yes’s multigenerational family story, ‘The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem,’ is one of the most expensive Israeli productions ever
By Jessica Steinberg
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