Israeli history

Israeli history

The history of Israel encompasses the history of the modern State of Israel, as well as that of the Jews in the Land of Israel.

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Sinai Peninsula

History; Israeli history

Desert region located to Israel's southwest. Israel captured the Sinai in the Six-Day War but returned it to Egypt as part of the 1979 peace treaty between the two countries.

Alpha Plan

History; Israeli history

A secret collaborative plan formulated by Great Britain and the US which attempted to attain peace by resolving issues such as refugees, territories, Jerusalem, Jordan River waters, and the Arab ...

Sudentenland

History; Israeli history

A section of Bohemia and Moravia in which the German population of Czechoslovakia (Volksdeutsche) was concentrated. In 1938 it was transferred to Germany as a result of agreements reached at the ...

A section of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, founded in 1968, that was funded by Syria and supported Palestinian liberation alongside pan-Arab ideology that placed the Ba’athist Syrian party ...

Nabateans

History; Israeli history

A semitic people who inhabited the Negev and ancient Edom in Transjordan from the third century BCE to the seventh century CE. The Nabateans were nomads at first, then became travelers and led ...

Ostara

History; Israeli history

A series of anti-Semitic pamphlets published by Lanz von Liebenfels between 1907 and 1910. Hitler bought these regularly and in 1909, Hitler sought out Lanz and asked for back copies.

Arab Revolt of 1936

History; Israeli history

A series of Arab riots coupled with a long general labor strike provoked by increasing Jewish immigration to British Mandatory Palestine. Led by Haj Amin al-Hussieni and the Arab Higher Committee, ...