Photos Of Palestine And Israel 1930-1949 - part 3

Photos Of Palestine And Israel 1930-1949 - part 3

Date: 30/11/1947

Two Arabs chat by the roadside with the ancient city of Jerusalem in the background, Nov. 28, 1947. (AP Photo/Jim Pringle)
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Date: 28/11/1947

A white Jewish ambulance, with a British soldier riding aboard, carries wounded Jews through a crowd of Arabs at Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem as British soldiers keep watch in Dec. 1947. The Arabs, who were imprisoned inside Jerusalem’s Old City during curfew hours, did not attack the ambulance. (AP Photo/James Pringle)
Ref #: PA.8669141
Date: 01/12/1947

Two trucks exploded on Ben Yehuda Street, in the heart of the Jewish business district of Jerusalem, Feb. 2, 1948, killing 27 people and injuring more than 100 others. (AP Photo/Pringle)
Ref #: PA.5737265
Date: 02/02/1948

Sandbags for defense works are filled by Jewish girls in the Montefiore quarter of Jerusalem in Feb. 1948. The girls belong to the few Jewish families still remaining in the section with members of the Haganah, Defense Organization. This section has been under constant attack by Arab snipers from the Old City during Arab-Jewish conflict after United Nations decision to partition Palestine. (AP Photo/James Pringle)
Ref #: PA.8666931
Date: 01/02/1948

An Arab military police officer looks out on the street from a damaged Arab home, bombed three days ago, behind the “Sisters of Sion” convent in the old city of Jerusalem, Palestine, July 14, 1948. He stands in front of a gaping hole, made by the Jewish “Secret Weapon” a 2 1/2 feet (75 cm) time-fused motar shell, holding a piece of the heavy steel cap, the largest fragment of the shell remaining. The bomb called by the Haganah “David, King of Israel” is manufactured in Tel Aviv. In the past days the Jews were shelling the Old City of Jerusalem consistantly. (AP Photo/Deluce)
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Date: 14/07/1948

Jews in the Old City section of Jerusalem queue up to await distribution of provisions brought into the city by British Army convoy on Jan. 19, 1948. (AP Photo/James Pringle)
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Date: 19/01/1948

Jews crawl and run to dodge Arab snipers as they return to their homes in the village of Montefiore on the outskirt of Jerusalem after their day’s work on Jan. 20, 1948. Palestinian Arabs fired from the walls of the old part of Jerusalem during conflict between Arabs and Jews during partition. (AP Photo)
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Date: 20/01/1948

Two Irgun Jews, one manning a Bren gun and the other holding a revolver, keep guard from a house in the Manshiah section of Tel Aviv near the Tel Aviv-Jaffa border in Jerusalem, Jan. 8, 1948 where Jews and Arabs are battling. (AP Photo/Jim Pringle)
Ref #: PA.7450202
Date: 08/01/1948

A dying Jewish raider is carried by a policeman and an Arab from a Muslim cemetery in Mamillah Road, Jerusalem, after armored car in which he and four other Jews had ridden in their bomb attack at Jaffa Gate crashed into the wall of the cemetery, Jan. 7, 1948. The car was wrecked by rifle fire from police and soldiers after dropping a second bomb at Mamillah Road. Eighteen people, mostly Arabs, were killed in the attack. (AP Photo)
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Date: 07/01/1948

Two feuding Arab families mark the end of the blood feud between them in Attil, Palestine, March 31, 1948, obeying the edict of regional Arab authorities that all feuds between Arabs must stop until “the greater feud of Arab against Jew is ended.” (AP Photo)
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Date: 31/03/1948

Villagers haul on the rope which links ship to shore, as a fresh boatload of refugees is brought into Naharia, north of Haifa, Israel. The “United Nations” was laden with 600 refugees eager for a new life in Israel.
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Date: 13/01/1948

Villagers haul on the rope which links ship to shore, as a fresh boatload of refugees is brought into Naharia, north of Haifa, Israel. The “United Nations” was laden with 600 refugees eager for a new life in Israel.
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Date: 13/01/1948

Willing hands help the first boatload of refugees through the surf, as the immigrants struggle to the shore of Naharia, north of Haifa, Israel. The “United Nations” ship was laden with 600 refugees eager for a new life in Israel.
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Date: 13/01/1948

With all his worldly belongings on his back, a refugee is helped ashore through the surf by villagers from Naharia, north of Haifa, Israel. The “United Nations” ship was laden with 600 refugees eager for a new life in Israel.
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Date: 13/01/1948

An Arab, armed with a sub-machine gun, stands guard at JerusalemÂ’s Wailing Wall on Feb. 23, 1948. Jews are being kept from this centuries-old holy place by Arabs for the first time since the Arab-Jewish disorders in 1939. (AP Photo/JP)
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Date: 23/02/1948

A Jewish cab is set ablaze by an angry mob near the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, Israel on December 29, 1947 after Jews shooting from a taxi assassinated 15 persons, among them 12 Arabs, 2 British constables and a Jew. (AP Photo)
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Date: 29/12/1947

Volunteer Arab soldier for the private Army of the Jerusalem Grand Mufti are sworn in on December 15, 1947 at Abu Dis, a small Palestinian village, near Jerusalem, Israel. (AP Photo)
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Date: 15/12/1947

While an armed Arab (right) stands guard, Christian Pilgrims kneel in what is said to have been the court of Pontius Pilate in Jerusalem, scene of first station of the way of cross. The place where Pilate condemned Jesus to death had been a British Police Station but recently was abandoned because of Arab-Jewish strife. Now it is used as headquarters of Arab National Police, Friday, March 26, 1948 in Jerusalem observances of stations of cross which were repeated, March 26, Good Friday. (AP Photo)
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Date: 26/03/1948

With registration on full swing, Haganah, the Jewish defense organization, puts all recruits through stiff training courses on March 11, 1948 in Jerusalem. There are several such camps, set up in secret locations. Besides training in the sued of arms, the youths are pout through a strenuous body conditioning program. At one stage of training, the recruits climb hand-over-hand up hanging ropes. (AP Photo)
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Date: 11/03/1948

An arab and his donkey pass a road block, manned by British soldiers and Palestinian policeman, during a snowfall, near Jerusalem, Palestine, March 22, 1948. (AP Photo)
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Date: 22/03/1948

An old couple from Yemen sit in a C-46 plane which is taking them from their homeland to Eretz, Israel on March 21, 1949. (AP Photo)
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Date: 21/03/1949

Arab fighters scan the hills of the Bab El Wad area on May 10, 1948. Arab and Jewish Forces clashed in a battle for control of the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway in Palestine. (AP Photo/JP)
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Date: 10/05/1948

A group of Palestinian Jews aboard the American export liner Marine Carp wave goodbye prior to sailing from New York, May 4, 1948, for their native land to fight the Arabs. (AP Photo/Joe Caneva)
Ref #: PA.5737223
Date: 04/05/1948

Children crowd a street vendor in Tel Aviv to purchase the new flag of Israel following proclamation of the Jewish zone of Palestine as a new state of Israel on May 15, 1948. (AP Photo)
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Date: 15/05/1948

Israel Koperlov, 1 years of age, on the knee of his father, Chaim Koperlov awaiting sunset check by Legion guards on June 4, 1948 in Trans Jordan. (AP Photo/Daniel De Luce )
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Date: 04/06/1948

Arab fighters scan the hills of the Bab El Wad area on May 10, 1948. Arab and Jewish Forces clashed in a battle for control of the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway in Palestine. (AP Photo/JP)
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Date: 10/05/1948

A female officer in charge of the range at the Hen women’s corps camp near Tel Aviv, Palestine, gives a demonstration in the handling of a Sten gun on June 15, 1948 in the Arab-Israeli War. Although non-combatants, members the new women’s Army in Israel are taught to use guns for defense. (AP Photo)
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Date: 15/06/1948

An Israeli soldier, armed with a rifle, stop some arabs in a street in Nazareth, Palestine, July 17, 1948, as they are travelling after the allotted curfew time. Israeli forces had occupied the town earlier that day. (AP Photo)
Ref #: PA.5736836
Date: 17/07/1948

Orthodox Jews of the Israeli Army read the Torah of Holy Scrolls, during commemorations of the Jewish fast day Tisha Bav, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Aug. 19, 1948. The Jewish signs of mourning, “Tvilum” around the arms and on the forehead, are worn by the men and those who are also married wear shawls. (AP Photo)
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Date: 19/08/1948

A five hundred Mil note from the new currency which has been issued in Israel to replace the Palestine Pound previously in circulation, Aug. 19, 1948. The note is still backed by the Anglo-Palestine Banl Limited. (AP Photo)
Ref #: PA.5737186
Date: 19/08/1948

Members of the General Zionist Council meet for the first time since the establishment of the state of Israel, Aug. 28, 1948. The painting is of Theodore Herzl, founder of the first General Zionist Movement. Mr. S. Sprinzak (first name not available), chairman of the council, addresses the audience. (AP Photo)
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Date: 28/08/1948

Two artillery spotters of the Israeli army work from a sandbagged observation post during the fighting along the Mejdal-Biet Jibrin road in the Negev, Palestine’s southern desert, Oct. 20, 1948. This is one of the first pictures of the actual fighting in the desert. (AP Photo)
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Date: 20/10/1948

Arab fighters scan the hills of the Bab El Wad area on May 10, 1948. Arab and Jewish Forces clashed in a battle for control of the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway in Palestine. (AP Photo/JP)
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Date: 10/05/1948

An arab workman is one of many who are assisting the Jewish authorities in Haifa, Israel, Nov. 8, 1948, in their great slum clearance scheme.(AP Photo/Staff/Pringle)
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Date: 08/11/1948

An arab workman is one of many who are assisting the Jewish authorities in Haifa, Israel, Nov. 8, 1948, in their great slum clearance scheme.(AP Photo/Staff/Pringle)
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Date: 08/11/1948

This family owned their own farm near Haifa. They fled when the British mandate ended and it became certain Israel would control the town. Today they are refugees in a camp near Gaza. The only possession they still have is a padded blanket. Location and date unknown. (AP Photo)
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Date: 01/01/1949

Arab snipers move away from a flaming Jewish truck in the Sheik Jarrah quarter of Jerusalem after dragging the body of driver from armored cab and dumping it on the road on March 7, 1948. The truck was caught in sniper fire, crashed into a wall and burst into flames.
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Date: 07/03/1948

An arab and his donkey pass a road block, manned by British soldiers and Palestinian policeman, during a snowfall, near Jerusalem, Palestine, March 22, 1948. (AP Photo)
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Date: 22/03/1948

An injured Jewish couple walk past rescuers searching for wounded and dead people in the wreckage of shops on Ben Yehuda Street, Jerusalem, Feb. 22, 1948, after a bomb exploded. The bomb killed 52 Jews and wounded 100 more and levelled buildings on both sides of the street. (AP Photo/Pringle).
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Date: 22/02/1948

Jim Pringle, Jerusalem staffer, looks at hole in windscreen of Associated Press jeep, Feb. 23, 1948, caused by Arab bullet during fighting with Jews in the Montefiore quarter. Pringle was just getting into jeep when bullet came through. (AP Photo)
Ref #: PA.8591419
Date: 23/02/1948