British mandate

The Palestinian national movement has yet to accept Israel’s right to exist - opinion

Decades of conflict, failed negotiations, and the October 7 massacre raise a central question: Is the Palestinian national movement willing to accept Israel?

Palestinians hurl rocks at Israeli security forces during clashes in the West Bank town of Hebron October 16, 2000.
Pro-Palestinian activists attend a protest against Israel's new death penalty law for Palestinians convicted of deadly terror attacks, in London, Britain, March 31, 2026.

Britain’s long history of adversarial policies toward Iran and Israel - opinion

Yehuda Katz.

My Word: Still bringing them home - opinion

The ruins of the King David Hotel bombing.

The blast that still echoes: The King David Hotel bombing, 80 years on


The Peel Commission Report of 1937

On July 7, 1937, 84 years ago, the report of the Palestine Royal Commission, also referred to as the Peel Commission, was submitted to Parliament.

 Lord Peel and Sir Horace Rumbold, chairman and vice chairman of the Palestine Royal Commission, leaving the offices after taking evidence from the Arab Higher Committee in 1936.

Struggles of British Mandate for Palestine exposed in new book

Why did UK stay in the game despite challenges, and how did Zionists manage?

 Official portrait of Lord Leslie Turnberg

The Jewish connection of the Battle of Beersheba

Beersheba was the opening battle in the Palestine Campaign of World War I, a battle won by Australian and New Zealand horsemen. 

 GEN. EDMUND ALLENBY reviews  an honor guard of British soldiers  in Jerusalem’s Old City, December  11, 1917.

How much alcohol did British soldiers drink while stationed in Israel during WWI?

Hundreds of glass alcohol bottles from a World War I British army camp were uncovered in an archeological dig near Ramle, suggesting that the British soldiers loved their booze.

A bottle of Gordon's Dry Gin found a the site of the archeological dig near Ramle

Remembering the life of Irgun member and activist Shulamit Dissentshik

 EARLY ZIONIST: Shulamit Dralitz Pashtizky Dissentshik.

How was 'Israel' once 'Palestine'? New books and old coins

In a world of nation-states, names are very important and those responsible for choosing the name Israel for the world’s newest state in May 1948 knew what they were doing. 

 The writer’s bronze coin dated 1946.

Yom Kippur in British Mandate Palestine and the Irgun

Ever since the November 1928 White Paper, the blowing of the shofar, the ram’s horn, among other customs, had been prohibited at the Western Wall — Much to the chagrin of the Irgun.

 PALESTINE POLICE Force wanted  poster of Irgun and Lehi members.  Menachem Begin appears at the top  left.

IDF releases rare aerial photos from Mandatory Palestine

The IDF published aerial photographs of various settlements and kibbutzim from the British Mandate Period.

 Kibbutz Hanita four hours after an aliyah wave.

Police covered up deaths in Mandatory Palestine, new documents show

New documents released by the Israeli State Archives show proof of British police covering up the intentional killing of Jewish youth in Mandatory Palestine in the 1940s.

Memorial for the five Lehi youth killed by British forces in Mandate Palestine, 1947.

Jewish, Arab conflict not symmetrical, but both sides need to douse flames

Most important these days is that all those – from both sides – who want to prevent the situation from deteriorating into a full-scale civil war, should act within their own side to lower the flames.

POLICE OFFICERS clash with protesters during a demonstration in Ramle last week.