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The agreement was finalized after three months of talks by the Zionist Federation of Germany, the Anglo-Palestine Bank (under the directive of the Jewish Agency) and the economic authorities of Nazi Germany. It was a major factor in making possible the migration of approximately 60,000 German Jews to Palestine between 1933 and 1939. [1]
The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine is a book written by author Edwin Black, documenting the transfer agreement ("Haavara Agreement" in Hebrew) between Zionist organizations and Nazi Germany to transfer a number of Jews and their assets to Palestine.
Von Mildenstein's articles explored several questions about the future of Palestine and the viability of Zionism in what he described as the "turbulent Orient".. Contrary to the derogatory stereotypes prevalent in Nazi propaganda, von Mildenstein depicted the Jewish settlers in Palestine as optimistic and industrious, a direct contradiction to the Nazi portrayal of Jews.
While Arabs were a small population in Europe at the time, they were not free from Nazi persecution. [29] Nazi harassment of Arabs began as early as 1932, where members of the Egyptian Student Association in Graz, Austria reported to the Egyptian consulate in Vienna that some Nazis had assaulted some of its members, throwing beer steins and armchairs at them, injuring them, and that "oddly ...
A two-state solution to the disputed territory almost came into being in 1947, when the UN General Assembly volunteered Resolution 181, which proposed carving a new state from Palestine west of ...
Over the next five years, the number of Jewish immigrants was not to exceed 75,000 people, and the Jewish population was to be no more than 1/3 of the population of Palestine. After 5 years, the entry of Jews into the country was prohibited "if the Arabs of Palestine object to immigration," and the purchase of land by Jews was prohibited or ...
The coming to power of Adolf Hitler in Germany in 1933 led to a wave of emigration of German Jews, many of whom sought refuge in Palestine and joined settlers already there. [3] The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, collaborated closely with the Nazis in the 1930s and also lived in Germany.
The agreement brought 52,000 German Jews to Palestine between 1933 and 1939, and generated $30,000,000 for the then almost bankrupt Jewish Agency, but in addition to the difficulties with the Revisionists, who advocated a boycott of Germany, it caused the Yishuv to be isolated from the rest of world Jewry. [156] [157] [158]