Palestine: Information with Provenance
Palestine: Information with Provenance
1: Palestine Post
#8610 State of Israel is born
by Palestine Post staff in Palestine Post, 16 May 1948
The first independent Jewish State in 19 centuries was born in Tel Aviv as the British Mandate over Palestine came to an end at midnight on Friday, and it was immediately subjected to the test of fire.
...
#8611 Most Crowded Hours in Palestine's History
by Palestine Post staff in Palestine Post, 16 May 1948
Between Thursday night and this morning Palestine went through what by all standards must be among the most crowded hours in history.
For the Jewish population there was the anguish over the fate of the few hundred Haganah men and women in the Kf ...
#8612 U.S. recognizes Jewish State
by Palestine Post staff in Palestine Post, 16 May 1948
Ten minutes after the termination of the British Mandate on Friday, the White House released a formal statement by President Truman that the U.S. Government intended to recognize the Provisional Jewish Government as the de facto authority representin ...
#8613 Etzion settlers taken P.O.W.
by Palestine Post staff in Palestine Post, 16 May 1948
Fighting in the Kfar Etzion bloc continued throughout Friday, after Kfar Etzion itself had surrendered to the Arabs on the previous day. The wounded from the settlement were evacuated to Massout Itzbak.
...
#8614 Acre captured
by Palestine Post staff in Palestine Post, 16 May 1948
Acre, the sea-coast town across the bay from Haifa, was captured by Jewish forces yesterday, the Haganah Radio reported. The surrender of the town, and subsequently two villages to the north, came after a strong Jewish attack.
...
#8615 Provisional government
by Palestine Post staff in Palestine Post, 16 May 1948
A few minutes before five (midnight Palestine time), Mr. Eliyahu Epstein, of the Jewish Agency's Washington Office, handed a letter to the White House, requesting the U.S. to recognize the new Jewish State.
...
#8616 Sir Alan Sails From Palestine
by Palestine Post staff in Palestine Post, 16 May 1948
The High Commissioner's departure from Palestine on Friday went according to plan - he appeared on the steps of Government House at 8 o'clock in the morning, wearing a full General's uniform.
...
#8617 Proclamation by Head of Government
by Palestine Post staff in Palestine Post, 16 May 1948
The creation of "Medinat Yisrael", the State of Israel, was proclaimed at midnight on Friday by Mr. David Ben Gurion, until then Chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive and now head of the State's Provisional Council of Government.
The first act ...
#8618 A nation that has freed itself
by Palestine Post staff in Palestine Post, 16 May 1948
There are days in the human record on which the night never falls. They shine forever; and in its rays the human race is able to pick its ways forward. The constancy of the Jewish people has brought the fecund day into being, until the bridge of thei ...
#8619 Palestinian Youth's Story
by Palestine Post staff in Palestine Post, 16 May 1948
A boy came whisting through the gate. Tall, with clear wide-open eyes; a friendly smile beneath his stiff cataract of light-brown hair. That is how I saw him the last time.
His name was Jonathan. They called him Tanchik since he was a baby. He wa ...
#8620 Mail to go abroad soon
by Palestine Post staff in Palestine Post, 16 May 1948
Postal communications with foreign countries will be resumed shortly. One foreign country has agreed to clear mail to and from Palestine until the International Postal Union in Berne recognizes the Jewish postal authorities, and another country has o ...
#8621 National income put at LP. 100 M.
by Palestine Post staff in Palestine Post, 16 May 1948
The national income of the Jewish State was estimated today by Mr. David Horowitz, of the Jewish Agency's Economic Department at LP. 100 million.
...
#8622 Maccabi tournament
by Palestine Post staff in Palestine Post, 16 May 1948
In the very successful athletic tournament organized by the Tel Aviv Maccabi recently many fime performances were recorded among which Yecheskel Green's 100 m. in 11.4 secs., and 200 m. in 24.6 secs., Abraham Green's shot put of 12.69 m., and Arieh A ...
#8623 Apel gains tennis title
by Palestine Post staff in Palestine Post, 16 May 1948
A big surprise of the local tennis season was the defeat of the veteran champion, Finklekraut, by Apel in the Palestine Tennis Championships held during the Passover week in Tel Aviv. The new champion won by 6/3, 6/3, 4/6, 2/6, 6/3.
...
#8624 Letters to the Editor
by Readers of the Palestine Post in Palestine Post, 16 May 1948