Photos Of Palestine And Israel 1930-1949 - part 4

Photos Of Palestine And Israel 1930-1949 - part 4

Date: 23/02/1948

Caught in the open during Arab-Jewish skirmish in Montefiore, a Jewish quarter in Jerusalem, Palestine, a Jew dashes for cover as an Arab sniper fires on him, Feb. 10, 1948. Two British companies were called out to halt the battle which started when Arabs attempted to smash into Jewish quarter of the city. (AP Photo/Jim Pringle)
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Date: 10/02/1948

Arab soldiers approach a huge breach in the walls of Tiferet Synagogue, a stronghold of the Haganah in the Old City of Jerusalem, on May 21, 1948 during the Arab-Israeli War. Arab demolition squads blasted holes in the structure which was being used as a fortress by Haganah forces, an underground Zionist military organization. (AP Photo)
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Date: 21/05/1948

Barbed wire covers the entire roadway for 105 yards on Princess Mary Ave. in Jerusalem at Zion Square on May 19, 1948. The wire is meant to keep Arabs and Jews from coming in contact. The Jewish State of Israel was proclaimed on May 15, and Britain was forced to surrender its 25-year mandate. On this day, the Old City of Jerusalem appeared in imminent danger of being wrested from its Jewish defenders by Palestine’s King Abdullah’s desert legion. In the background is the Jewish section. Right at center is the police headquarters. (AP Photo)
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Date: 19/05/1948

Cabinet Ministers of the new state of Israel sing “Hatikvah,” the Jewish National Anthem, May 14, 1948, at a ceremony at the Tel Aviv Art Museum, marking the creation of the new state. Facing Camera from left are: Baroch Shitrit, Police Commissioner; David Remez, Communications Minister; Fritz Bernstein, Trade, Industry and Suppply; Felix Rosenbluth, Justice; Rabbi Judah Fishman, Commissioner of Jerusalem Area, David Ben Gurion, Premier and Defense Minister; Moshe Shapiro, Director of Immigation; Moshe Shertok, Foreign Afairs; Eliazer Kaplan, Treasurer; Moshe Ben Tov, Public Works and Labor; and Aaron Zisling, Agriculture. (AP Photos/Files)
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Date: 14/05/1948

Jews pause along King George Ave., to watch fighting through slits in a protective wall in Jerusalem, Israel, May 17, 1948. The wall was erected during Arab-Jewish fighting for the protection of Jews who had to walk through the street. (AP Photo)
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Date: 17/05/1948

Jewish Haganah troops are seen on ppatrol near the no-man’s-land line in Katamon, a suburb of Jerusalem, Palestine May 6, 1948. In the back left is the Arab owned hotel Semiramis, by bombed by Haganah forces four month ago, with the argument that it was used as an Arab headquarter for commanders of the fighting Arabs. 15 men and women were killed in the explosion. Katamon, once an Arab stronghold, was wrested from them by the Haganah forces in a three day battle ending May 4, 1948. There was a continuous battle with automatic weapons and armoured cars. Except for the Haganah gurds and patrols all the former residents have departed. (AP Photo/Pringle)
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Date: 06/05/1948

Mrs. Golda Meir is the only female member of the provisional council of the new state of Israel, waves following her arrival at La Guardia Field, New York, May 19, 1948 from Jerusalem. She declared that “if the United state arms embargo is lifted, we can drive the Arabs out in a few weeks.” She added that the Jewish people in Palestine were optimistic of the successful outcome of the war because finances and manpower have been solidly mobilized. (AP Photo)
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Date: 09/05/1948

The scene at Arab hillside village on a Muslim Sabbath in Palestine, Jerusalem, Friday, March 31, 1948, when two families who had split the village into rival camps with a blood feud for the past two years set aside their differences, so that they might wage war against the Jews instead of each other. TheyÂ’re shown forming a rough circle with members of one family on the left, members of the other on the right, and Arab soldier volunteers in center background. Afterwards the male members of the two family factions advanced toward one another and shook hands. The feud, which began with the killing of a member of one family, was the first in Palestine thus formally set aside. The truce was solemnized by a feast. (AP Photo)
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Date: 31/03/1948

An Arab legion soldier fingers a machine gun as he stands guard in Jerusalem on Jan. 6, 1948 where his army is on loan to the British army to help out because of shortage of British soldiers in the holy land. (AP Photo/JP)
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Date: 06/04/1948

Christian Arabs, carrying a huge cross, reach the third station of the Cross in Jerusalem on March 26, 1948 as they retrace the path of Jesus Christ from the court of Pontius Pilate of Calvary, others kneel on the spot, where it is believed Christ Fell for the first time under the burden of the cross. Photo received in New York, March 26, by radio from London. (AP Photo)
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Date: 26/03/1948

King Abdullah of Transjordan, centre with beard, leaves the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, May 27, 1948, escorted by members of the Arab Legion. The Jewish sector of the old city fell to arab forces on May 28. (AP Photo)
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Date: 27/05/1948

Soldiers of the Transjordan Arab Legion surround Haganah Jewish soldiers and pose with their rifles following their surrender in the old city of Jerusalem, Palestine, May 28, 1948. (AP Photo)
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Date: 09/06/1948

Jewish firefighters engage in salvage operations as smoke still rises from two buses set aflame when a parking lot along Jaffa Road in Jerusalem was struck by Arab incendiary mortar shells, June 12, 1948. The parking lot was hit during one of the daily shellings of the new section of the city by the Arab legion. (AP Photo/Tom Fitzsimmons)
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Date: 12/06/1948

Joshua Cohen, 12, one of nearly 300 prisoners taken by Trans-Jordan Legion on surrender of Old City Jewish quarter, Jerusalem, 28/5 and now held in Trans-Jordan. He is seated on the ground with other prisoners for 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

An Arab soldier manning a machine gun, takes cover behind sand bags on a street near the New Gate in the old city of Jerusalem, Palestine on May 29, 1948 during the Jewish Arab conflict while a little boy on the left, unimpressed by the deadly atmosphere plays in the debris covering the pavement. (AP Photo)
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Date: 29/05/1948

The glare from fires set by mortar and artillery shells and the flares set up by opposing fighters in the fierce battle between Arabs and Jews light up the sky above the David’s Tower section of the Old City Wall of Jerusalem, held by the Arabs, July 14, 1948. It was one of the heaviest exchanges of fire in the long struggle for the Holy City. (AP Photo/Jim Pringle)
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Date: 14/07/1948

View of desolated Sulimans Way, in the old city of Jerusalem, Palestine, July 20, 1948, which forms a front line between the Arabs inside and Jewish forces outside the walls. Fierce fighting happened between the two forces following the expiry of a two-day truce. (AP Photo/Pringle)
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Date: 20/07/1948

Arab Legion riflemen resume their front line positions along the battlements of the walls of the old city of Jerusalem, as the truce ends in Palestine, July 9, 1948. Jewish shelling has been concentrated on this sector since the end of the truce. (AP Photo)
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Date: 09/07/1948

A Red Cross nurse holds a young baby being repatriated from the Haganah-held sector of Jerusalem to the Arab section on June 18, 1948 during the Arab-Israeli War. The child is one of many Arab children, women and men found among the ruins of the city by Jewish forces. Refugees are met at the New Gate by representatives of the International Red Cross, supervising the transfer. (AP Photo)
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Date: 18/06/1948

Legion guards with two orthodox Jews who preferred imprisonment in Trans-Jordan to going into Jewish-held area of Jerusalem, which is also still a battle zone on June 4, 1948 in Trans-Jordan. (AP Photo/Daniel De Luce )
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Date: 04/06/1948

British captors of Old Jerusalem await fresh military orders ourside the Damascus Gate through which they penetrated the lines of the Arab rebels. (AP Photo/James Mills)
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Date: 31/10/1938

Since the British occupation of Jerusalem, Palestine, after the old city had been held for four days by Arabs, a measure of calm has descended on the district. Storm centre October 24—When this picture reached London by air after being was Jaffa, where there was sniping. British police captain leading Jewish kiddies to safety away from Arab snipers during the reoccupation of the old city of Jerusalem in Palestine, Israel on Oct. 24, 1938, by the British. (AP Photo/James Mills)
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Date: 24/10/1938

A group of struggling Arab refugees walk along the dusty road from Jerusalem to Lebanon, carrying their meagre belongings with them, Nov. 9, 1948. The arabs have been driven from their homes by Jewish attacks in Galilee. (AP Photo/Pringle)
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Date: 09/11/1948

Jewish nurses stranded for three months in the neutral area on Mount Scopus, which is in Arab-held territory, sort out their luggage after being brought back safely to Jerusalem in armored buses of a United Nations convoy on Oct. 8, 1948 in the Arab-Israeli War. Israeli police, also stranded in the demilitarized zone, were brought back with them and the Arabs permitted police replacements to go to Mount Scopus. (AP Photo/James Pringle)
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Date: 08/10/1948

Leaders of the Jewish force, Irgun Zvei Leumi, announce to the press their acceptance of the demand by the Israeli provisional government for the immediate disbandment of Irgun, Jerusalem, Palestine, Sept. 21, 1948. Left to right; ‘Karni’, the spokesman of Irgun; ‘Avinoam’, the commander of the Irgun forces in Jerusalem; ‘Leilerovits, liason officer. Following this acceptance soldiers of the Israeli army immediately commandeered arms at Irgun posts in the city. (AP Photo/Pringle)
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Date: 21/09/1948

Commander of Israel’s Jerusalem Brigade, Colonel Moshe Dayan, right, and Arab Legion Commander Abdullah Bey El-Tel, shake hands after a conference in a monastry in Jerusalem’s no-man’s land, Aug 22, 1948. Facing camera right, is Lieutenant Colonel Ahmed Abd Aziz, commander of the Egyptian forces in the southern section of Jerusalem. A few hours after this picture was taken Colonel Aziz was ambushed and killed. (AP Photo/Pringle)
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Date: 22/08/1948

The United Nations Security Council, gathered in Paris, Sept. 18, 1948, stands in silent tribute for Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden who was assassinated in Jerusalem, Sept. 17. (AP Photo/Levy)
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Date: 18/09/1948

An Israeli soldier, armed with a sten gun, picks her way through the shattered walls of Sulimans Way, in the old city of Jerusalem, Palestine, July 20, 1948, which forms a front line between the Arabs inside and Jewish forces outside the walls. Fierce fighting happened between the two forces following the expiry of a two-day truce. (AP Photo/Pringle)
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Date: 20/07/1948

Beneath a banner proclaiming “Jerusalem, the capital of Israel” Stern Group leaders address a large meeting in the Holy City, Jerusalem, Palestine, August 1948. (AP Photo)
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Date: 01/08/1948

Menachem Begin, who gave his first public appearance since he went underground, in Jerusalem, Israel, August 3, 1948, is the leader of the Herut party in the Republic of Israel. The party is the strongest opposition party to prime minister David Ben-Gurion’s Mapai party. Begin led one of the biggest terrorist gangs theat fought the British before the state of Israel was created. In 1948 the British placed a 30 000 Pound reward on his head, dead or alive. Now he is considered the number two man on Israel’s political scene and he has been a strong opponent of Ben-Gurion’s solution of the Gaza problem. (AP Photo/Pringle)
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Date: 03/08/1948

Some 4,000 people in Jerusalem listen to an address by Menachem Begin, from a balcony of the Tel Aviv hotel on Zion Square, August 11, 1948. (AP Photo)
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Date: 11/08/1948

Arab civilians, released by Jews under a prisoner exchange agreement, walk through a debris-flanked no-mans-land road as they return to Arab territory in Jerusalem, March 8, 1949. The Israel-Jordan Armistice Agreement provided for the exchange of Arab civilian prisoners and about 800 Jewish prisoners of war. (AP Photo/Ali Hassan Abu Zarur)
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Date: 08/03/1949

Prof. Albert Einstein receiving honorary PhD from Hebrew University of Jerusalem at his home 112 Mercer St., Princeton, New Jersey, on March 15, 1949, through the American Friends of the Hebrew University. Group at the presentation, left to right, seated: Prof. Eleazar L. Sukenik of Hebrew Univ.; Dr. Israel S. Wechsler, Pres., Amer. Friends of Hebrew Univ.; Prof. Albert Einstein; Mrs. Tamar De Sala Pool, past president, Hadassah; Leo A. Mayer. Standing: George Wise, Mark Sugarman, Prof. Gershon Scholen, High Salpeter, Sylvan Gotschal and Joseph Mazer. (AP Photo/Alan Richards)
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Date: 15/03/1949

Jewish displaced people aboard SS General Gordon at San Francisco cheer Jewish welfare officials and others who wish them well on their journey to Israel, Feb. 21, 1949. They have arrived from Shanghai and will be transported in a sealed train across the U.S. to New York where they will board a vessel bound for Palestine. (AP Photo/Ernest K. Bennett)
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Date: 21/02/1949

The flag of the Israeli Government, proclaiming the recognition of the government by Britain, was hoisted at the offices of the Israeli Government in Manchester Square, London, by 17 year old Ruth Liebstadter, the youngest member of staff.
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Date: 31/01/1949

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

Miriam Wiess, left, of Glasgow, Scotland, and Leah Cohen, of Leeds, help clear ground for the erection of a building at the site of the new Israeli kibbutz settlement in Yazur, in western Galilee, Israel, Feb. 13, 1949. (AP Photo)
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Date: 13/02/1949

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