Palestine Potash Company supplied half of Britain's potash during World War II, but ultimately became a casualty of the 1948 Arab – Israeli War.

Keren Hayesod ( founded 1920 ) funded Zionist and Yishuv activities prior to the creation of the state of Israel through enterprises such as the Palestine Electric Company, the Palestine Potash Company and the Anglo-Palestine Bank.

Even the attempts of the Palestine Land Development Company to purchase the environs of the Western Wall for the Jews just before the outbreak of World War I never came to fruition.

Worlledge, who until 1927 had commanded a Wireless Company in Palestine.

Nearby clay pits supported a pottery industry ; the W. S. George Pottery Company was formed in 1909 from the East Palestine Pottery Company and operated in the town until the 1950s.

Gunners of A Battery, the Honourable Artillery Company, attached to the 4th Light Horse Brigade | 4th Australian Light Horse Brigade, crouch between their Ordnance QF 13 pounder | 13 pounder quick fire field guns and a cactus hedge near Belah, Palestine, in March 1917 during First Battle of Gaza.

Weizmann first visited Jerusalem in 1907, and while there, he helped organize the Palestine Land Development Company as a practical means of pursuing the Zionist dream.

* In July of 2011, the ShiberHur Theatre Company of Palestine presented a new version of In the Penal Colony, adapted by Amir Nizar Zuabi, at London's Young Vic.

In 1931 the Sursuqs sold all but 2, 000 dunams of Ma ' alul's land to the Zionist Palestine Land Development Company.

It was founded in London as the Anglo Palestine Company on February 27, 1902, by members of the Zionist movement to promote the industry, construction, agriculture, and infrastructure of Palestine.

In 1923, Pinhas Rutenberg founded the Palestine Electric Company, Ltd. ( later to become the Israel Electric Corporation, Ltd .)

In 1943 Australian Army engineers ; the 2 / 1 and 2 / 16 Field Company RAE, 9th Australian Field Company ( AIF ), veterans of Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Greece and Crete, the 1st and 3rd Australian Pack Transport Companies and local Papuan labour cut the road with pickaxes and dynamite over a period of eight months.

In 1933, during the British Mandate, the Palestine Land Development Company took over this concession and drew up plans to drain and irrigate the valley which brought scientific expeditions to the area.

By 1948, the Company had created 12 companies with concessions or exploration licences: Petroleum Development ( Cyprus Ltd ), Lebanon Petroleum Company Ltd, Petroleum Development ( Palestine ) Ltd, Syrian Petroleum Company Ltd, Trans-Jordan Petroleum Company Ltd, Mosul Petroleum Company Ltd, Basrah Petroleum Company Ltd, Petroleum Development ( Qatar ) Ltd, Petroleum Development ( Trucial Coast ) Ltd, Petroleum Development ( Oman and Dhofar ) Ltd, Petroleum Concessions Ltd ( for the Aden Protectorates ), Petroleum Development ( Western Arabia ) Ltd.

Being somewhat delicate in health, at the age of sixteen he was sent to Southern Europe, for which he at once developed a passion, so that he spent nearly all of the following ten years abroad, at first in Italy, then in Greece, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Palestine.

Andrew died some time after 1253, while he was active as a missionary in Palestine.

His father, Aibo, was a brother of Chiyya, who lived in Palestine, and was a highly esteemed scholar in the collegiate circle of the patriarch Judah I.

Rav's activity made Babylonia independent of Palestine, and gave it that predominant position which it was destined to occupy for several centuries.

During the 1860s the family was banished from Constantinople to Adrianople, and then finally to the penal-colony of Acre, Palestine when he was 24.

He is commonly referred to in Bahá ' í texts as " The Master ", and received the title of KBE after his personal storage of grain was used to relieve famine in Palestine following World War I, but never used the title.

Bahá ’ u ’ lláh and his family were – in 1868 – exiled to the penal colony of Acre, Palestine where it was expected that the family would perish.

During the final years of the 19th century, while ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was still officially a prisoner and confined to ` Akka, he organized the transfer of the remains of the Báb from Iran to Palestine.

This persecution was most severe in the East, particularly in Egypt and Palestine.

He was promoted to major-general in October 1938 and took command of the 8th Infantry Division in Palestine.

The British wrested control of the city from the Ottomans during World War I and it was to be included in an international zone under the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine.

From 1831 to 1841, Palestine was under the rule of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty of Egypt.

In the United Nations General Assembly's 1947 resolution to partition Palestine, Bethlehem was included in the special international enclave of Jerusalem to be administered by the United Nations.

Yahweh's war campaign in Palestine validates Israel's entitlement to the land and provides a paradigm of how Israel was to live there: twelve tribes, with a designated leader, united by covenant in warfare and in worship of Yahweh alone at single sanctuary, all in obedience to the commands of Moses as found in Deuteronomy.

Use of the Aramaic language was also popular in the 3rd Century BCE and was widely spoken amongst Jews in Palestine.

The " Balfour Declaration " was later incorporated into the Sèvres peace treaty with Turkey and the Mandate for Palestine.

Hogarth reported that Hussein " would not accept an independent Jewish State in Palestine, nor was I instructed to warn him that such a state was contemplated by Great Britain ".

The minutes revealed that in laying out the government's position Curzon had explained that: " Palestine was included in the areas as to which Great Britain pledged itself that they should be Arab and independent in the future ".

The agreement proposed that an " international administration " would be established in an area shaded brown on the agreement's map, which was later to become Palestine, and that the form of the administration would be " decided upon after consultation with Russia, and subsequently in consultation with the other allies, and the representatives of the sheriff of Mecca ".

One of the main proponents of a Jewish homeland in Palestine was Chaim Weizmann, the leading spokesperson for organized Zionism in Britain.

That was the fount and origin of the famous declaration about the National Home for the Jews in Palestine .... As soon as I became Prime Minister I talked the whole matter over with Mr Balfour, who was then Foreign Secretary.

In September 1940, the Committee chartered three ships, the Milos, the Pacific and the Atlantic, to transport Jewish refugees from the Romanian port of Tulcea to Palestine.

* 1929 – The 1929 Palestine riots break out in the British Mandate of Palestine between Arabs and Jews and continue until the end of the month.

* 1929 – Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, continuing until the next day, resulted in the death of 65-68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.

The 1929 Palestine riots ( see also the Hebron Massacre ), led Ze ' ev Jabotinsky to create a right-wing militia group called the Irgun Tzvai Leumi ( National Military Organization, known in Hebrew by its acronym " Etzel ").

Between 1929 and 1939, 250, 000 Jews arrived in Palestine ( 5th Aliyah ).

During the 1920 Jerusalem riots, the 1921 Palestine riots and the 1929 Palestine riots, Palestinian Arabs manifested hostility against Zionist immigration and Jewish communities, which provoked the reaction of Jewish militias, sometimes supported by British troops.

On August 16 of this year the 1929 Palestine riots broke out between Palestinians and Jews over control of the Western Wall.

* August 16 – The 1929 Palestine riots breaks out between Palestinians and Jews and continues until the end of the month.

Lieutenant General Abdel-Razak al-Yehiyeh or Abdul-Razzaq Al-Yahya ( born March 15, 1929 in Tantura, near Haifa, then in the British Mandate of Palestine ), also known as Abu Anas, is the Interior Minister of the Palestinian National Authority.

The 1929 Palestine riots erupt due to a dispute between Muslims and Jews over access to the Western Wall.

The British in Palestine: The Mandatory Government and the Arab-Jewish Conflict 1917 – 1929.

In 1929, Palestine Hotels Ltd. purchased on Jerusalem's Julian ’ s Way, today King David Street.

In 1929 Wycliffe Hall staff and students on pilgrimage to Jerusalem were commissioned as peacekeepers during riots in Palestine, and one student was shot through the shoulder.

In the region of Palestine he founded his own institution in the town of Hebron called Knesses Yisroel-" Gathering of Israel ", which moved to Jerusalem following the massacre of Jews during the 1929 Palestine riots in which many of the yeshiva students perished.

* 1929 Palestine riots Slabodka victims

Arab protest delegations against British policy in Palestine during 1929

Chaim Weizmann was the leader of both the Zionist Organisation and the Palestine Zionist Executive until 1929.