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After showing people listening to a shortwave broadcast of the proceedings in 1947 at the United Nations approving the partition plan that led to the creation of the State of Israel on May 15, 1948, the film ends with men and women planting trees in memory of the six million victims of the Holocaust. [4]
In 1951 Iraqi Jews were granted temporary permission to leave the country and 120,000 (over 90%) opted to move to Israel. Jews also fled from Lebanon, Syria and Egypt. Menachem Begin addressing a mass demonstration in Tel Aviv against negotiations with Germany in 1952. Between 1948 and 1958 the population of Israel rose from 800,000 to two million.
The film is a historical tragedy set during the opening stages of Israel's 1948 War of Independence. The film follows the fate of a group of refugees from the Holocaust who are illegally brought to Israel by the Palmach. When they arrive, they are chased by British soldiers.
The modern state of Israel was founded in May 1948 in the aftermath of the Holocaust ... a Jewish homeland in Palestine as long ... behind and still hope to return to. In December of 1948, the UN ...
The Forgotten Refugees is a 2005 documentary film directed by Michael Grynszpan and produced by The David Project and IsraTV [1] with Ralph Avi Goldwasser as executive producer, that recounts the history of Jewish communities of the Middle East and North Africa and their demise in the face of persecutions following the creation of the modern State of Israel in 1948.
Though Israel was then living in the shadow of the Six-Day War, Loevy made a conscious decision to base his story on 1948, explaining, "We focused on that year in order to push the testimonies back into the past. [1] The two families in the film never meet; instead, a visit to the graves and a visit to the ruins of the Arab village are ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. 1948 Arab–Israeli War Part of the 1948 Palestine war and the Arab–Israeli conflict From top to bottom, left to right: John Bagot Glubb, commander of the Jordanian Arab Legion with soldiers in Ramallah Jewish soldiers raising the Israeli flag at the end of the war Israeli soldier with ...
The Israeli Declaration of Independence, formally the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel [2] (Hebrew: הכרזה על הקמת מדינת ישראל), was proclaimed on 14 May 1948 (5 Iyar 5708), at the end of the civil war phase and beginning of the international phase of the 1948 Palestine war, by David Ben-Gurion, the Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization [a ...