Towards Statehood
David Raziel
David Raziel (December 19, 1910 – May 20, 1941) was Commander in Chief of the Irgun. Ramat Raziel, a moshav in the Judean Mountains is named after Raziel.
Princess Mary Ave. Jerusalem, 1948
The building on the right is police HQ. The British Mandatory administration used barbed wire to block the area (dubbed “Bevingrad”) from both Jewish and Arab traffic.
Abdullah and Glubb Pasha, Life Magazine, May 1948.
At his winter palace overlooking Jordan River, King Abduallh confers with Glubb Pasha, British Commander of Trans-Jordan’s Arab Legion.
The Castel, Apr. 1948
The Castel is a Crusader fortress which sits on a mountain on the main route to Jerusalem, rendering it an important strategic point. Jewish troops took the Castel on Apr. 2, 1948 without a battle, but the Arabs, understanding its military importance, attacked it. At the end of a five-day battle the Palmach forces were […]
Population Transfers in Asia, Joseph B. Schechtman, Hallsby Press, NY 1949.
THE phenomenon of mass transfer of population has become a familiar one in our age. The author of this book has, in an earlier work of his (European Population Transfers, 1939-1945), written an authoritative account of the part played by population transfer in the recent history of Europe. In this volume he directs his scholarly […]