British Mandate for Palestine

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League of Nations mandate former political entity territorial administration

The British Mandate for Palestine was a League of Nations–sanctioned territorial administration under British control from the early 1920s to 1948, during which modern political boundaries and conditions leading to the creation of Israel and neighboring states were shaped.

Aliases (17)

Mandatory Palestine ×27
British Mandate of Palestine ×13
British Mandate period ×13
League of Nations Mandate for Palestine ×5
Allied occupation of Palestine ×1
British Mandate administration in Palestine ×1
British Mandate authorities ×1
British Mandate era ×1
British Mandate in Palestine ×1
British Mandate of Palestine (historically) ×1
British Mandatory authorities in Palestine ×1
British Palestine Mandate ×1
British Transjordan Mandate ×1
British military occupation of Palestine ×1
British rule in Palestine ×1
United Kingdom over Palestine ×1
historic Palestine ×1

Statements (70)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	League of Nations mandate → former political entity → territorial administration →
adminCenter	Jerusalem →
administeredBy	United Kingdom →
administeredByOffice	High Commissioner for Palestine →
airline	Palestine Airways →
approvedBy	Council of the League of Nations →
borderedBy	Emirate of Transjordan → French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon → Kingdom of Egypt → Kingdom of Saudi Arabia → Mediterranean Sea →
cameIntoForce	1923-09-29 →
capital	Jerusalem →
contains	Acre → Gaza → Haifa → Hebron → Jaffa → Jerusalem → Nablus → Nazareth → Tel Aviv →
containsRegion	Galilee → Judea → Negev → Samaria →
createdBy	San Remo Conference →
currency	Palestine pound →
dateApproved	1922-07-24 →
demographicGroup	Arab Palestinians → Christian communities → Jewish population →
educationLanguagePolicy	trilingual (Arabic, Hebrew, English) →
endDate	1948-05-15 →
endEvent	Israeli Declaration of Independence → termination of British rule in Palestine →
firstHighCommissioner	Herbert Samuel →
flag	Flag of Mandatory Palestine →
followedBy	Egyptian administration of the Gaza Strip → Jordanian annexation of the West Bank → State of Israel →
lastHighCommissioner	Alan Cunningham →
legalBasis	Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations →
legalInstrument	Mandate for Palestine document →
legalSystem	mixed Ottoman, British, and local law →
obligation	establish a national home for the Jewish people → safeguard the civil and religious rights of all inhabitants of Palestine →
officialLanguage	Arabic → English → Hebrew →
partitionPlanDate	1947-11-29 →
partitionPlanResolutionNumber	UN General Assembly Resolution 181 →
partitionProposal	United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine →
partOf	Middle East →
postalAuthority	Palestine Post →
precededBy	Occupied Enemy Territory Administration → Ottoman Empire rule in Palestine →
railwayOperator	Palestine Railways →
relatedDocument	Balfour Declaration →
relatedTo	1948 Arab–Israeli War → Arab–Jewish conflict in Mandatory Palestine → Palestinian national movement → creation of the State of Israel → formation of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan →
sanctionedBy	League of Nations →
securityForce	Palestine Police Force →
startDate	1920-04-25 →
vehicleRegistrationCode	P →

Referenced by (89)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Arab Higher Committee ("Mandatory Palestine") → Haganah ("Mandatory Palestine") → Jewish Agency for Palestine ("Mandatory Palestine") → Jewish People’s Council ("Mandatory Palestine") → Moetzet HaAm ("Mandatory Palestine") → Palestine Post ("British Mandate of Palestine") → Palestinian Jews ("Mandatory Palestine") →	country
David Ben-Gurion ("Mandatory Palestine") → David Grün ("Mandatory Palestine") → Menachem Ussishkin ("Mandatory Palestine") → Ze'ev Jabotinsky ("Mandatory Palestine") →	countryOfCitizenship
Al-Khalil ("British Mandate period") → Jaffa ("British Mandate period") → Tulkarm ("British Mandate period") → Tverya ("British Mandate period") →	hasHistoricalPeriod
Haganah ("Mandatory Palestine") → Jewish Agency for Palestine ("Mandatory Palestine") → Jewish People’s Council ("Mandatory Palestine") → Mapai ("Mandatory Palestine") →	operatedIn
Edward Said ("Mandatory Palestine") → Itzhak Perlman ("Mandatory Palestine") → Sirhan Sirhan ("Mandatory Palestine") →	countryOfBirth
High Commissioner for Palestine and Transjordan ("League of Nations Mandate for Palestine") → Jewish Agency for Palestine ("League of Nations Mandate for Palestine") → Palestine Police Force ("League of Nations Mandate for Palestine") →	legalBasis
Balfour Declaration ("League of Nations Mandate for Palestine") → Ottoman Palestine →	followedBy
Emil Ghuri ("British Mandate of Palestine") → Practical Zionism →	historicalContext
Palestinian Jews ("British Mandate period") → Revisionist Zionism ("British Mandate of Palestine") →	historicalPeriod
Asia (colonial possessions) ("British Palestine Mandate") → Asia (colonial possessions) ("British Transjordan Mandate") →	includes
High Commissioner for Palestine and Transjordan → Tiberias ("British Mandate of Palestine (historically)") →	partOf
Ahad Ha'am ("Mandatory Palestine") → Menachem Ussishkin ("Mandatory Palestine") →	placeOfDeath
Arab–Israeli War of 1948 → Egyptian administration of the Gaza Strip →	precededBy
Haganah ("British Mandate of Palestine") →	activeDuring
Revisionist Party ("British Mandate period") →	activeInPeriod
Arab Higher Committee ("Mandatory Palestine") →	appliesToJurisdiction
San Remo Conference ("United Kingdom over Palestine") →	assignedMandateTo
Paula Ben-Gurion ("British Mandate of Palestine") →	associatedWithPlace
David Ben-Gurion ("Mandatory Palestine") →	citizenship
Jewish Agency for Palestine ("British Mandatory authorities in Palestine") →	collaboratedWith
Arab–Israeli War of 1948 ("Mandatory Palestine") →	conflictIn
Revisionist Zionism ("Mandatory Palestine") →	countryOfOrigin
Palestine pound ("British Mandate of Palestine") →	countryOrRegionOfUse
Jewish People’s Council →	declaredIndependenceFrom
Palestinian national movement →	emergedInContextOf
Ottoman Palestine ("British military occupation of Palestine") →	endCause
creationOfStateOfIsrael →	endedPoliticalEntity
Israeli Chief Rabbinate ("British Mandate era") →	establishedInPeriod
Egyptian administration of the Gaza Strip →	followed
Sarona ("British Mandate period") →	hasHistoricalEra
Jewish Quarter of the Old City ("British Mandate period") →	hasHistoricalPeriodOfSignificance
Palestinian ("Mandatory Palestine") →	hasHistoricalRegion
Palestinian American ("historic Palestine") →	hasMigrationHistoryFrom
British Empire ("British Mandate of Palestine") →	hasPart
Holy Land →	historicalControlBy
Palestine pound ("British Mandate period") →	historicalEra
Golda Meir ("Mandatory Palestine") →	immigratedTo
Balfour Declaration ("League of Nations Mandate for Palestine") →	incorporatedInto
Israel →	independenceFrom
Balfour Declaration →	influenced
Haganah ("Mandatory Palestine") →	locatedIn
High Commissioner for Palestine and Transjordan →	locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity
Palestine Railways ("British Mandate period") →	operatorDuring
Haganah ("British Mandate authorities") →	opposedBy
Awni Abd al-Hadi ("British Mandate in Palestine") →	opposedTo
Question of Palestine →	originatedInContextOf
Yitzhak Rabin ("British Mandate of Palestine") →	placeOfBirth
creationOfStateOfIsrael →	predecessorEntity
United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine ("British Mandate of Palestine") →	proposedDivisionOf
United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine →	recommendedTerminationOf
Balfour Declaration →	relatedTo
Occupied Enemy Territory Administration →	replacedBy
Provisional Government of Israel ("British Mandate administration in Palestine") →	replaces
Sinai and Palestine campaign ("Allied occupation of Palestine") →	result
Dawn ("British Mandate of Palestine") →	settingLocation
Dawn ("British rule in Palestine") →	subject
Jewish People’s Council ("British Mandate period") →	timePeriod
creationOfStateOfIsrael ("Mandatory Palestine") →	tookPlaceIn
Lydda ("British Mandate of Palestine") →	underRuleOf
Acre ("British Mandate period") →	wasImportantInPeriod
Gaza City ("British Mandate of Palestine") →	wasPartOf
Jenin ("British Mandate of Palestine") →	wasUnderRuleOf
Emil Ghuri ("British Mandate period") →	workPeriod