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6 October. Yom Kippur War: Egyptian and Syrian forces simultaneously attacked Israeli positions in the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights, respectively, on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. 14 October. Operation Nickel Grass: The United States began an airlift of tanks, artillery, ammunition and supplies to Israel.
The history of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict traces back to the late 19th century when Zionists sought to establish a homeland for the Jewish people in Ottoman-controlled Palestine, a region roughly corresponding to the Land of Israel in Jewish tradition. [1][2][3][4] The Balfour Declaration of 1917, issued by the British government ...
e. The history of Israel covers an area of the Southern Levant also known as Canaan, Palestine or the Holy Land, which is the geographical location of the modern states of Israel and Palestine. From a prehistory as part of the critical Levantine corridor, which witnessed waves of early humans out of Africa, to the emergence of Natufian culture ...
But the protests continued, reaching fever pitch in 1933, as more Jewish immigrants arrived to make a home for themselves, the influx accelerating from 4,000 in 1931 to 62,000 in 1935.
Gaza is estimated by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to have 1.7 million, and the West Bank 2.8 million Palestinians, while Israel proper has 1.7 million Arab citizens. [135] According to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics, as of May 2006, of Israel's 7 million people, 77% were Jews , 18.5% Arabs , and 4.3% "others". [ 136 ]
Battle of Jerusalem. Part of the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I. General Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot, 11 December 1917. Date. 17 November – 30 December 1917. (1 month, 1 week and 6 days) Location. On the coast of the Mediterranean Sea north of Jaffa, into the Judean Hills and around Jerusalem.
In Israel, the Jewish population has experienced significant growth, increasing from approximately 630,000 in 1948 to nearly 6.9 million in 2021. Conversely, the Jewish population in the diaspora, which began at around 10.5 million in 1945, remained relatively stable until the early 1970s, when it began to decline, reaching an estimated 8.2 to ...
Until 1938, the Jewish Agency opposed illegal immigration, fearing that it would impact the number of immigration certificates issued. Overall, between 1929 and 1940, a period of mass Jewish immigration known as the Fifth Aliyah occurred despite British restrictions. Nearly 250,000 Jews (of whom 20,000 later left) immigrated to Palestine, many ...