British mandate

Israel Electric reveals telegrams showing Tel Aviv power station's role in British political battle

The company said the documents highlight the strategic importance of the Tel Aviv power station during the early years of the Jewish community in Mandatory Palestine.

Tel-Aviv building site - Rothschild Park
UK PRIME MINISTER Keir Starmer

The UK recognizing Palestine opens the door to lawsuits over crimes during the Mandate - opinion

Guests holding a sign and a Palestinian flag pose on the red carpet for the premiere of the film "Palestine 36" as the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) returns for its 50th edition in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, September 5, 2025.

At Toronto film festival, 'Palestine 36' tackles the past, echoes in the present

An UNRWA photo of Palestinians having an open-air school in Jericho after what they have dubbed the Nakba.

Britain created the first wave of Arab refugees from Palestine


Holocaust Remembrance Day: Did the Allies do enough to help the Jews? - opinion

In remembering the Holocaust, there is also a place to recall the behavior of the principal Western allies who came up short in protecting the Jews.

 US PRESIDENT Joe Biden lays a wreath in the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem, last July. It is sometimes forgotten that Washington didn’t declare war on the Nazis – it was Hitler who declared war on the US.

Nahariya hospital implants cardiac pacemaker in 102-year-old woman

Kafri has a birth certificate from the time of the British Mandate that was written in three languages: Hebrew, English and Arabic.

 Rachel Kafri and Prof. Shaul Atar on her follow-up visit after implanting the pacemaker

How should Avraham Stern be remembered? - opinion

The once Zionist renegade is now part of the Israeli mainstream - but was he more terrorist or freedom fighter?

 OVER THE decades since his death, Avraham “Yair” Stern has increasingly edged into the Israeli consensus, says the writer.

Israel needs films about Irgun, Lehi fighting the British - opinion

Why does the history of the Irgun and Lehi have such a poor record of cinema and television treatment?

 JEWISH UNDERGROUND detainees are held at Gilgil Camp, in Kenya.

Jerusalem's Jewish majority has been restored after 100 years - opinion

Jerusalem has been the center of Jewish national and spiritual existence since time immemorial.

 MUSLIM ARMIES conquered Jerusalem in 638 CE. The occupying forces built al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock shrine atop the ruins of the Jewish Temples.

Israeli Stern Group violence in British Mandate: Ann Turton's tragedy

George F. Smith was killed by the Irgun and Stern Group in Jaffa, thrice orphaning Ann. What happened to her?

 ANN TURTON as a young child in Palestine.

Historical treasure hunters find Scottish soldier's tag from World War II in Hadera

A team of volunteers interested in finding historical items and sending them back to museums uncovered tags for a Scottish soldier who served in British Mandate Palestine during WWII.

A man uses a metal detector on the beach.

November 29: Anti-Israel clichés and the 1947 UN vote - analysis

What matters today is that every year on November 29, one of the latest in vogue narratives about 1947 and Israel’s creation is that it was a “settler colonial” enterprise.

 JEWS CELEBRATE in the streets of Tel Aviv moments after the United Nations voted on November 29, 1947 to partition Palestine into two states.

On This Day: 75 years since UN vote to turn Palestine into Jewish, Arab states

In later years, the date would also become known as the annual International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.

 JEWS CELEBRATE in the streets of Tel Aviv moments after the United Nations voted on November 29, 1947 to partition Palestine into two states.

Israel's forgotten sulfur quarry in the Negev

In 1929, during British mandate, an officer who was a geologist found a large percentage of mineral sulfur that was on the soft soil of Bitronot Beeri.

 Sulfur quarry in the Negev.