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Yom Kippur War of October 1973

Apr 4, 2023 3:32 pm | ISRAEL AFTER 1967, Maps

The Yom Kippur War began on October 6, 1973 when the armies of Egypt and Syria attacked Israel across the Suez Canal and in the Golan Heights on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. After a few days of torrid fighting, Egypt established itself on the eastern side of the Suez Canal and the Syrians captured most of the Golan. A counterattack by Israeli forces pushed back Egyptian forces, with the IDF crossing the Canal and approaching Cairo. On the Golan, Syrian forces were repulsed; the IDF penetrated deep in Syrian territory and recaptured Mount Hermon.

Jerusalem Old City Post ’67

Apr 4, 2023 3:22 pm | ISRAEL AFTER 1967, Maps

Jerusalem’s ancient walled city is roughly a kilometer square and divided into Moslem, Christian, Armenian Quarter, and Jewish Quarters On the eastern site of the Old City is the Temple Mount, on which is today placed the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock. The Temple’s western retaining wall is considered holy by Jews.

Jerusalem After 1967

Apr 4, 2023 3:21 pm | ISRAEL AFTER 1967, Maps

Weeks after the end of the Six-Day War, on June 27, 1967, the Israeli Parliament passed a law applying Israeli administration and jurisdiction to all areas of Jerusalem acquired in the war. The following day, the Jerusalem municipal boundaries were extended to include eastern Jerusalem, from Atarot and Neve Yaakov in the north to Gilo in the south.

Six Day War (1967)

Apr 4, 2023 3:12 pm | ISRAEL AFTER 1967, Maps

In May and early June of 1967, tensions between Israel and the surrounding states built to a crisis.

Crisis before the Six Day War

Apr 4, 2023 3:11 pm | ISRAEL BEFORE 1967, Maps

In May and early June of 1967, tensions between Israel and the surrounding states built to a crisis.

Jerusalem Before 1967

Apr 4, 2023 3:00 pm | ISRAEL BEFORE 1967, Maps

At the end of the War of Independence, Jerusalem was divided between Israel and Jordan. Armistice lines were determined in November 1948 by Moshe Dayan, Israeli Commander of the Jerusalem district, and Abdallah el-Tal, Legion Commander of Jordan’s Jerusalem front. Between the lines drawn by the two commanders, areas left undefined became “no-man’s land.” The area around Armon Hanatziv was used as UN territory, and Mount Scopus became an Israeli enclave containing the Hebrew University, Hadassah Hospital and, officially, the village of Issawiyya. This map was adopted in April 1949 in an armistice agreement signed in Rhodes. The westernmost point between the two parts of the city was at the edge of the Musrara neighborhood, near the Mandelbaum Gate.

Jewish Towns Lost 1947-9

Apr 4, 2023 2:35 pm | Maps, PRE-STATE ISRAEL

When the War of Independence broke out in 1947, the Jewish community of Hebron fled. During the fighting, nine Jewish communities were captured by the Jordanian army – Kibbutz Beit Ha’arava and Kaliya north of the Dead Sea, four kibbutzim in Gush Etzion west of Bethlehem, Atarot and Neve Yaakov north of Jerusalem, and the Jewish Quarter of its Old City. Kfar Darom, in the Gaza strip, was captured by the Egyptian army.

War of Independence (1947-9)

Apr 4, 2023 2:30 pm | ISRAEL BEFORE 1967, Maps

In 1947, Great Britain turned over Mandatory Palestine to UN responsibility. The General Assembly appointed a committee which after much study and discussion recommended partitioning the land into Jewish state and Arab states, with Jerusalem under international supervision. On November 29, the partition resolution was accepted by a vote of 33-13.

UN Partition Plan of 1947

Apr 4, 2023 9:45 am | Maps, PRE-STATE ISRAEL

In 1947, Great Britain turned over Mandatory Palestine to UN responsibility. The General Assembly appointed a committee which after much study and discussion recommended partitioning the land into Jewish state and Arab states, with Jerusalem under international supervision. On November 29, the partition resolution was accepted by a vote of 33-13.

The British Mandate

Apr 4, 2023 9:39 am | Maps, PRE-STATE ISRAEL

The San Remo Peace Conference of 1920 delegated to Great Britain the authority to administer the Land of Israel and Transjordan, collectively called the Palestine Mandate. In 1921, the British severed the Jewish national home from Transjordan. In 1922, Churchill published a White Paper on this subject and, later that year, the League of Nations approved the changed mandate, effective 1923.

Setting the Northern Border

Apr 4, 2023 9:34 am | Maps, PRE-STATE ISRAEL

In May 1916, France and Great Britain signed the Sykes-Picot Agreement, in which the claims of both sides to the Levant were set down, determining areas of administration and influence. Until 1923, the sides were involved in hard bargaining, with the British insisting on two principles: control of the Biblical area “from Dan to Beer Sheba;” and control of its water sources, the Jordan River and Sea of Galilee.

Setting the Southern Border

Apr 4, 2023 9:21 am | Maps, PRE-STATE ISRAEL

Great Britain wanted to change the border with the Ottoman Empire, under strong German influence, to push the Ottomans further from the Suez Canal. In 1892, the Turks agreed to allow Egyptian guard stations near the Gulf of Eilat. In April of 1906, the Turks were pressed to set the border between Aqaba and Rafah.

Category: Maps

Yom Kippur War of October 1973

Jerusalem Old City Post ’67

Jerusalem After 1967

Six Day War (1967)

Crisis before the Six Day War

Jerusalem Before 1967

Jewish Towns Lost 1947-9

War of Independence (1947-9)

UN Partition Plan of 1947

The British Mandate

Setting the Northern Border

Setting the Southern Border

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