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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 371

Ramona Tausz

Ramona Tausz

Israeli soldiers train in a 1958 newsreel marking the first 10 years of Israel's statehood (Screenshot of newsreel footage from YouTube)
November 17, 2015, 3:16 pm
WATCH: The promised land — 10 years of Israel
In 1948, British moviegoers watched this recap of the Jewish state’s first decade
By Ramona Tausz
General Moshe Dayan inspects troops in southern Sinai in 1956 (Screenshot of newsreel footage from YouTube)
November 15, 2015, 12:22 pm
WATCH: Success in the Sinai campaign
General Moshe Dayan inspects the troops after Israel’s 1956 victory in southern Sinai
By Ramona Tausz
Chief of General Staff Moshe Dayan passes his title to Haim Lascov during a 1958 ceremony (Screenshot of newsreel footage from YouTube)
November 9, 2015, 2:32 am
WATCH: Moshe Dayan steps down
In 1958, Chief of General Staff Dayan passed his title to Haim Lascov
By Ramona Tausz
Combines roll through the fields as Israel harvests its first crops from the Negev in 1956 (Screenshot of newsreel footage from YouTube)
November 5, 2015, 2:52 pm
WATCH: A first desert harvest, in 1956
Israelis gather the crops after cultivating the Negev for the first time
By Ramona Tausz
British troops transfer newly-arrived refugees onto ships heading back to Cyprus in 1946 (Screenshot of newsreel footage from YouTube)
October 29, 2015, 9:15 pm
WATCH: Immigrants from Cyprus resist transfer
In 1946, British troops used tear gas and firehoses to keep illegal Jewish arrivals out of Palestine
By Ramona Tausz
In 1948, people gathered outside the Jewish Agency building in Washington, D.C., to celebrate the birth of the Jewish State (Screenshot of newsreel footage from YouTube)
October 20, 2015, 4:34 pm
WATCH: The new Jewish state is formed
In 1948, British audiences caught this glimpse of the birth of Israel
By Ramona Tausz
Jewish refugees from British detention camps in Cyprus file down the gangplank at the Haifa port (Screen capture: YouTube)
October 14, 2015, 4:48 pm
WATCH: Cyprus refugees reach Palestine
It’s 1948, and refugees from British detention camps are finally being allowed to enter their revived Jewish homeland
By Ramona Tausz
Jewish settlers build houses near Kastina in 1946 (Screenshot of newsreel footage from YouTube)
October 12, 2015, 3:44 pm
WATCH: Settling the Negev in 1946
Immediately after the Yom Kippur fast, 11 Jewish settlements sprang up in the Negev
By Ramona Tausz
Bedouin shop for sheep during market day in Beersheba, 1957 (Screenshot of newsreel footage from YouTube)
October 10, 2015, 3:02 pm
WATCH: Wives for sale in 1950s Bedouin market
Cheerful footage from Beersheba takes a startling turn when bargains at the Bedouin market include sheep, camels — and women
By Ramona Tausz
Workers build a railway from the Gulf of Aqaba to the Mediterranean in the 1950s (Screenshot of newsreel footage from YouTube)
October 5, 2015, 4:17 pm
WATCH: Israel builds a desert railway
In the 1950s, Israelis toiled to run a railway line through the Negev Desert
By Ramona Tausz
An IDF soldier practices camouflage in southern Israel in 1958 (Screenshot of newsreel footage from YouTube)
October 2, 2015, 4:44 pm
WATCH: Amazons of the desert
In 1958, female IDF soldiers practiced camouflage in southern Israel
By Ramona Tausz
Israel receives warships from the UK in 1956 (Screenshot of newsreel footage from YouTube)
September 28, 2015, 4:32 pm
WATCH: Warships and female soldiers
It’s 1956, and Israel’s army and navy are more impressive than ever before
By Ramona Tausz
Two British military policemen, following their 1947 kidnapping from a swimming pool in Ramat Gan (Screenshot of newsreel footage from YouTube)
September 27, 2015, 3:15 pm
WATCH: Brits kidnapped while suntanning
In 1947, the Irgun captured two British military policemen from a Ramat Gan swimming pool
By Ramona Tausz
British soldiers search a house in Tel Aviv for terrorists during a four-day curfew in 1946 (Screenshot of newsreel footage from YouTube)
September 24, 2015, 3:29 pm
WATCH: The British search Tel Aviv in 1946
For four days, the British Mandatory government shut down Tel Aviv as it hunted Jewish terrorists and hidden weapons
By Ramona Tausz
Members of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine tour the Old City of Jerusalem in 1947 (Screenshot of newsreel footage from YouTube)
September 15, 2015, 3:45 pm
WATCH: UN finds Palestine ‘an almost insoluble problem’
In the summer of 1947, an UNSCOP fact-finding committee reached Jerusalem, seeking a solution to the conflicting claims
By Ramona Tausz
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