HISTORY 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Shimon Peres, Fatah, First Aliyah
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**anything in red is specifically from second semester! But the study guide as a whole includes first semester and second semester: 1880- there were only 24,000 jews in palestine- this was 6% of the existing population in. Palestine: 1881-1904: first aliyah- chiefly religious jews- 25,000, 1896- hertzel created the book the jewish state , 1897- hertzel organizes the first zionist congress in switzerland and the world zionist. Palestine: 1930- the second white paper, 1932- british gave up control of iraq, and many began to want a similar settlement in. Palestine: 1933-1936- third aliyah- jewish population of palestine doubled, by 1938 jews were. Arabs left with their families to arab states, planning on returning when things quieted down. Mostly did so because of the breakdown in social order (british were preparing to withdraw & they funded everything; battle of the roads made matters harder).
