Here they achieved independence ... 1948, the present National Council shall act as the provisional administration, shall constitute the Provisional Government of the State of Israel.

Zionist protesters says he invited the activists to join the class, but was shouted down.Avi Shilon, an Israeli historian, was teaching a class on the history of modern Israel on Tuesday, the first ...

It was about defying Jewish history. In 1948, when Ben-Gurion and his fellow Zionist leaders declared Israeli independence, it was nothing less than a radical assault on diasporic Jewish history.

The conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people is one of the longest-running and most violent disputes in the world.

comparing the evacuation of settlements to the displacement of Palestinians during and after Israel’s 1948 War of Independence. The Democratic congresswoman, who is Palestinian-American ...

In Lebanon and Syria today, the reverse is the case. For different historical reasons (Lebanon, longstanding social fissures; ...

Israel declared independence in May 1948, and neighboring Arab countries declared war. That war ended with Israel in control of some 77% of the territory — with Jordan controlling the West Bank ...

Israel’s 76-year history – like the history ... years that define and shape the country going forward. The year of independence, 1948, is one such year, as is 1967 – the year of the Six ...

Here it is briefly explained, in both 100 words and 300 words. On 14 May 1948, Israel declared independence, and in a war which began the next day, up to 750,000 Palestinians who had lived on that ...

Second, the refusal of Israel to issue a "Declaration of Independence" officially in 1948, even though its propagandists would refer to its official "Declaration of the Establishment of the State ...