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1919 In British-administered Palestine
Events in the year 1919 in British-administered Palestine (British-controlled part of Occupied Enemy Territory Administration, OETA territory). Events January * 3 January – The signing of the Faisal Weizmann Agreement by Feisal I of Iraq, Emir Feisal (son of the King of Hejaz) and Chaim Weizmann (later President of the World Zionist Organization) as part of the Paris Peace Conference, 1919. * 22 January to 10 February – First meeting of the Palestine Arab Congress held in Jerusalem. February * 26 February – The first official meeting of the Zionist General Council. April * 29 April – The Hebrew Scouts Movement in Israel, Hebrew Scouts Movement is established. August * 8 August – The newspaper ''Do'ar HaYomm'' is founded. Historical Jewish Press, National Library of Israel Notable births |
Mandatory Palestine
Mandatory Palestine was a British Empire, British geopolitical entity that existed between 1920 and 1948 in the Palestine (region), region of Palestine, and after 1922, under the terms of the League of Nations's Mandate for Palestine. After an Arab Revolt, Arab uprising against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War in 1916, British Empire, British Egyptian Expeditionary Force, forces drove Ottoman Empire, Ottoman forces out of the Levant. The United Kingdom had agreed in the McMahon–Hussein Correspondence that it would honour Arab independence in case of a revolt but, in the end, the United Kingdom and French Third Republic, France divided what had been Ottoman Syria under the Sykes–Picot Agreement—an act of betrayal in the eyes of the Arabs. Another issue was the Balfour Declaration of 1917, in which Britain promised its support for the establishment of a Homeland for the Jewish people, Jewish "national home" in Palestine. Mandatory Palestine was then establishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zionist General Council
Zionist General Council (ZGC) () (HaVa'ad HaPoel HaTzioni) is the supreme institution of the Zionist movement. The ZGC was established in 1921 following a decision reached at the 11th World Zionist Congress. It is composed of members elected at the World Zionist Congress and representatives of Zionist organizations. The council has 25–30 members. The ZGC is responsible for implementing decisions reached at the World Zionist Congress and the administration of the Zionist movement. In 2010, Helena Glaser, President of World WIZO, was unanimously elected chairperson of the Zionist General Council at the 36th World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem. List of chairpeople * 1921–1925: Tzvi-Peretz Hayot * 1925–1933: Leo Motzkin * 1935–1941: Menachem Ussishkin Menachem Ussishkin ( ''Avraham Menachem Mendel Ussishkin'', ; August 14, 1863 – October 2, 1941) was a Russian-born Zionist leader and head of the Jewish National Fund. Biography Menachem Ussishkin was born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanna Ben Dov
Hanna Ben Dov (; 1919 in Jerusalem – 2008 in Paris) was an Israeli abstract painter. Life & Work Ben Dov's father, Ya'ackov Ben-Dov, was a famous Israeli photographer who founded the photography department in the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in 1910. Hannah herself attended Bezalel during the 1940s, and later continued to Camberwell College of Arts in London. After the completion of her formal education she moved to Paris, where she exhibited for the first time in 1948 and has been living and working there since, as a part of the local abstract artists school. She took part in the first French Biennale of 1951, that was held in Menton. Collections Her paintings can be found in several collections, including the French State Collection, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art collection, the Bezalel National Museum collection in Jerusalem and the Rockefeller Museum The Rockefeller Archeological Museum, formerly the Palestine Archaeological Museum ("PAM"; 1938–1967), is an archa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ya'akov Mizrahi
Ya'akov Mizrahi (; 1919 – 13 August 1980) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Agudat Yisrael between 1972 and 1974. Biography Mizrachi was born in Rehovot in 1919 to a family who had emigrated from Yemen. He was on the Agudat Yisrael list for the 1969 elections, and although he failed to win a seat, he entered the Knesset on 27 November 1972 as a replacement for Shlomo-Ya'akov Gross, who had resigned his seat as part of a rotation agreement. He was a member of Internal Affairs Committee until losing his seat in the 1973 elections. Earlier in the year one of his sons, David, had died during the Yom Kippur War. His other son Eliezer later also became a member of the Knesset for Agudat Yisrael. In 1980 he suffered a heart attack while travelling to Jerusalem. After being found unconscious next to his car, he was taken to Assaf Harofeh Medical Center in Be'er Ya'akov Be'er Ya'akov () is a city in central Israel, near Ness Ziona and Rishon Lezion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 In Israel
Events in the year 2008 in Israel. Incumbents * President of Israel – Shimon Peres * Prime Minister of Israel – Ehud Olmert * Supreme Court of Israel, President of the Supreme Court – Dorit Beinisch * Chief of General Staff (Israel), Chief of General Staff – Gabi Ashkenazi * Government of Israel – Thirty-first government of Israel, 31st Government of Israel Events * January 21 – The Israeli reconnaissance satellite Ofek-8 is launched. * January 21 – The senior lecturers' strike at the Israeli universities ends. * January 30 – The final Winograd Commission report is announced in Binyanei HaUma in Jerusalem. * April 24 – The United States claims North Korea helped Syria Syria and weapons of mass destruction, build a nuclear reactor at a site Operation Orchard, destroyed by Israeli forces in September 2007. * April 28 – Israeli satellite Amos-3 is launched into space from the Baikonur Cosmodrome Spaceport, space launch facility in Kazakhstan. * May 4 – Forme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Binyamin Gibli
Binyamin Gibli (; 1919 – August 19, 2008) was the head of Israeli Military Intelligence from June 1950 to March 1955. Shabtai Teveth (1996) ''Ben-Gurion's Spy: The Story of the Political Scandal That Shaped Modern Israel'' Columbia University press, chronology pp. xvii–xxx Gibli was forced to resign in the wake of the Lavon Affair, a failed Israeli operation in Egypt in 1954. Biography Binyamin Gibli was born in Petah Tikva in 1919. His father, Moshe Granzia of Briansk, Russian Empire, immigrated to Palestine in May 1914. Granzia settled in Kfar Ganim and changed his name to Gibli. His mother's first name was Yehudit.Shabtai Teveth (1996) ''Ben-Gurion's Spy: The Story of the Political Scandal That Shaped Modern Israel'' Columbia University press, pp. 2–3 Gibli married Esther Pinhassi in 1940 and moved to her family home in Ein Ganim. In 1941 he joined the " Jewish Settlement Police", and the following year completed an infantry officers' course at the training school for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menachem Ratzon
Menachem Ratzon (; 5 August 1919 – 12 November 1987) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the first Knesset for Mapam. Biography Born in Petah Tikva shortly after the end of World War I, Ratzon worked in orchards, industry and as a tour guide. He joined the Socialist League, which later evolved into Hashomer Hatzair Workers Party and then Mapam. He served on the actions committee of the Histadrut trade union, and was also a member of Petah Tikva's Workers Council, and director of its planning department. He was placed twenty-first on the Mapam list for the 1949 elections, but missed out on a seat as Mapam won 19 mandates. However, he entered the Knesset on 10 April 1951 as a replacement for Dov Bar-Nir, who resigned his seat. For the July 1951 elections he was placed seventeenth on the party's list, but lost his seat as Mapam was reduced to 15 seats. He was twenty-third on the Mapam list for the 1955 elections, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nehemiah Persoff
Nehemiah Persoff (; August 2, 1919 – April 5, 2022) was an American actor and painter. He appeared in more than 200 television series, films, and theatre productions, and also performed as a voice artist in a career spanning 55 years. His first acting role was as an extra in '' The Naked City'' (1948). Persoff is best known for roles as Leo in '' The Harder They Fall'' (1956), as Little Bonaparte in ''Some Like It Hot'' (1959), as Jake "Greasy Thumb" Guzik in '' The Untouchables'' (1959–1963), as Rebbe Mendel in '' Yentl'' (1983), and as the voice of Papa Mousekewitz in the animated film ''An American Tail'' (1986) and its sequels. He also made appearances on episodes of ''The Twilight Zone'', ''Gilligan's Island'', '' Hawaii Five-O'', ''Adam-12'', and ''Law & Order''. Early life and education Persoff was born to Shmuel Persoff and Puah Holman in the city of Jerusalem in 1919. His father, Shmuel, was a silversmith, jeweler, and art teacher born in Chernihiv, Russian Empire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nissim Eliad
Nissim Eliad (; 1 July 1919 – 15 November 2014) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Independent Liberals between 1968 and 1977. Biography Born Nissim Amsalem in Tiberias, Eliad was a member of the Maccabi Hatzair and Betar youth movements, as well as being amongst the youth leadership of Mapai. He studied oriental studies, bible and Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and also studied at a law school, where he was certified as a lawyer. In 1950 he joined the Progressive Party. For the 1965 elections he was on the Independent Liberal list (a party formed by former Progressive Party members after its merger with the General Zionists), but failed to win a seat. However, he entered the Knesset on 23 December 1968 as a replacement for party leader Pinchas Rosen, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haidar Abdel-Shafi
Haidar Abdel-Shafi (Heidar Abdul-Shafi) ( June 10, 1919 – September 25, 2007), was a Palestinian physician, community leader and political leader who was the head of the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid Conference of 1991. Background Abdel-Shafi was born in Gaza, one of six children of Sheikh Muheiddin Abdel-Shafi, head of the Higher Islamic Council Waqf and custodian of the holy places in Gaza and Hebron (from 1925–27). He attended primary school in Gaza; secondary education as a boarder at the Arab College in Jerusalem and graduated in 1936. He graduated in 1943 from the American University of Beirut College of Medicine in Beirut. At the University he joined George Habash's Arab Nationalist Movement dedicated to Arab nationalism and the "liberation of Palestine". Political and community service career Pre-1948 Abdel-Shafi worked at the British Mandate of Palestine's Municipal Hospital in Jaffa. In 1944-1945 he joined the Desert Army of the British Jordanian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aharon Remez
Aluf Aharon Remez (; 8 May 1919 – 3 April 1994) was an Israeli civil servant, politician and diplomat, and the second commander of the Israeli Air Force. Biography Born in Tel Aviv in 1919, Remez's father David was Israel's first Minister of Transportation. He joined the Haganah in 1936. Three years later he was sponsored by the Jewish Agency to receive flying lessons in New Jersey. Whilst in the United States he also served as an emissary of the Habonim movement between 1939 and 1942. In December 1942 he joined the Royal Air Force, and trained to fly in Canada. Completed his OTU in the United Kingdom, he was posted to No. 41 Squadron RAF in April 1945 and served as a combat pilot with the unit until March 1946. Following the end of World War II he helped organise illegal immigration from Europe. He was released by the RAF in 1947 and rejoined the Haganah, in which he was appointed operations officer and chief of staff of its air wing, Sherut Avir. In July 1948 he became t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knesset
The Knesset ( , ) is the Unicameralism, unicameral legislature of Israel. The Knesset passes all laws, elects the President of Israel, president and Prime Minister of Israel, prime minister, approves the Cabinet of Israel, cabinet, and supervises the work of the government, among other things. In addition, the Knesset elects the State Comptroller of Israel, state comptroller. It also has the power to waive the immunity of its members, remove the president and the state comptroller from office, dissolve the government in a constructive vote of no confidence, and to dissolve itself and call new elections. The prime minister may also Dissolution of parliament, dissolve the Knesset. However, until an election is completed, the Knesset maintains authority in its current composition.The Knesset Jewish Virtual Library. Ret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
