Mandatory Palestine

Israel, 1920–1948. Draft, not yet reviewed

Mandatory Palestine, officially known as Palestine, was a British administrative territory in the region of Palestine between 1920 and 1948. Under the League of Nations mandate system, Britain was entrusted with administrating Palestine on the development of representative institutions and eventual self-government. From 1922, Britain administered the territory under the Mandate for Palestine with the British High Commissioner under the Colonial Office as its chief administrator. The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine, adopted by the UN General Assembly in November 1947, recommended dividing the territory into two states, one Arab and one Jewish.

Seat of power: Jerusalem

No rulers documented for this era yet.

Culture

• At the formal beginning of the Mandate, the population was approximately 11% Jewish, 9% Christian Arab, and 78% Muslim Arab.
• During the Mandate, the area saw successive waves of Jewish immigration and the rise of nationalist movements in both the Jewish and Arab communities.
• Competing interests of the two populations led to the 1936-1939 Arab revolt in Palestine and the 1944-1948 Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine.

Picture

The Rockefeller Archeological Museum, formerly the Palestine Archaeological Museum, is an archaeology museum in Jerusalem that houses a large collection of artifacts unearthed in the excavations conducted in the British-ruled Mandatory Palestine.

Image: Carole Raddato from FRANKFURT, Germany, CC BY-SA 2.0, file

Sources

• Mandatory Palestine (Wikipedia)
• Mandatory Palestine (Wikidata)
• About the picture (Wikipedia)

Text adapted from the Wikipedia articles listed as sources, CC BY-SA 4.0.