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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Totenkofwachsturbanne

History; Israeli history

These were the units of the SS which guarded the concentration camps during the war, whose members were drawn from the Allgemeine SS. As the military situation worsened in 1942/43, their more ...

Sabra and Shatilah

History; Israeli history

Refugee camps in southern Lebanon, the inhabitants of which were massacred by the Phalagneists during the Lebanon Civil War.

The British Policy statement released on July 1, 1922 that declared land West of the Jordan River to be Jewish but not the whole of the Palestinian Mandate. It also confirmed yet restricted Aliyah to ...

Tzom Gedaliah

History; Israeli history

The day of Fasting that commemorates the assassination of Gedaliah ben Achikam, the Governer of the Jews appointed by the Babylonians after the desturuction of the First Temple. After his death, Jews ...

Zyklon B

History; Israeli history

The commercial name for hydrogen cyanide, a poisonous gas used in the Euthanasia Program and at Auschwitz. The poison was produced by the firm DEGESCH, which was controlled by I. G. Farben. Zyklon B ...

Nuremberg Trial

History; Israeli history

Trial of 24 major Nazi figures in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1945 and 1946 before the International Military Tribunal.

Qumran or Khirbet Qumran

History; Israeli history

The site near the northwest corner of the Dead Sea in modern Israel where the main bulk of the Jewish “Dead Sea Scrolls” were discovered around 1946. The “Qumran community” that apparently produced ...