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Two Famous Declarations Almost two and a half millennia separate the two famous declarations that restored the exiled Jewish people to its homeland of Zion – the Cyrus Declaration of 538 BCE and the Balfour...
Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby was born in England in 1861. As a young man, Allenby dreamed of joining the British Civil Service in India, but after twice failing the entry exams, he pursued a military...
Defending the Canal Volatile to its very core at the outbreak of World War I, the Middle East was divided between the superpowers of western Europe and the “sick man” to the east, the Ottoman...
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It's Complicated One of the most famous and heroic Jewish contributions to World War I is that of Nili (a Hebrew acronym meaning “Israel’s Glory Does Not Lie”), the spy ring that informed the British...
Guard Down Unnlike most of Nili’s rank and file, Joseph Lishansky had a foot in both Labor Zionism and the bourgeois homesteaders’ camp. Born in 1890, Lishansky came to the Holy Land with his father...
Dying in Vain Born in 1893, Wilfred Owen volunteered for the British army in 1915 and was sent to Europe after completing officers’ training. His service on the Western Front was traumatic – he was...
Attack and Honor On the morning of August 20, 1914, the sun shone brightly on the fields of Lorraine. Forty-four years had passed since France had been humiliated by the German conquest of Alsace-Lorraine. Now,...
