Palestine Mandate

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Palestine Mandate

• The Framework for the Jewish National Home

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Palestine under the Ottoman Empire
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The Jewish Yishuv in 1914

• Population - 80,000 among 700,000
• Old Yishuv 50,000
• In Jerusalem 40,000
• New Yishuv 30,000
• lt First and Second Aliyah
• lt Lovers of Zion
• Baron Rothchild
• JCA
• Jaffa, Haifa, Agricultural settlements

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Zionist Presence in Palestine

• Until 1914
• Zionist Agents among others
• The Jewish National Fund
• The Palestine Office
• During the War
• Weakening of Old Yishuv
• Strengthening of New Yishuv
• Zionist Agents become Central

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Ottoman Empire Decline map
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Outcomes of the War

• British Interests in the Region
• Jewish and Zionist Lobby gt
• The Balfour Declaration 1917
• The Versailles Peace Treaties the creation of
  the League of Nations
• The mandate system
• Recognition of nationalities and the rights of
  national minorities

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The Palestine Mandate and the Jewish National
Home

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The Mandate Framework
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Jewish National Home