PALESTINE (British Mandate) In the Promised Land Balfour. On Nov. 2, 1917, Mr. Arthur James Balfour, British Foreign Secretary, issued a declaration on behalf of his Government: "His Majesty's ...

"The British Mandate for the land of Israel ended in May 1948. It will never return," the Foreign Minister declared in a post on social media. According to Sa'ar, ...

The people who support the slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” are correct. But they are 77 years too late. Palestine was freed in 1948.

The British Government today rejected the proposal that it surrender its twenty-year-old mandate over Palestine to the United States, in an acrimonious debate in the House of Lords raised by Lord ...

In “Land Between the Rivers,” a sweeping history of their country, Bartle Bull explains why. With Iraq’s independence in 1932 from rule by the British Mandate, “the territorial limits of ...

Neighborhood Corner: Kiryat Shmuel is shaped by religious leadership, urban planning under the British Mandate, and the trials of Israel’s early statehood. Located between the better-known ...

In “Ghosts of a Holy War,” Yardena Schwartz explores an anti-Jewish pogrom in British Mandate Palestine and how it echoed across the next century. Before Oct. 7, there was Aug. 24. On that ...