Just over 100 years ago, Theodor Herzl launched the Zionist Movement. They called for a Jewish State in their ancestral land, Palestine. Fifty years later, the State of Israel came into being. Israel was established so that Jews anywhere in the world could have a homeland of their own. After independence, that process began with the in gathering of three quarters of a million Jews from Arab lands. As Communism disintegrated, more than a million Jews emigrated from the Soviet Union. Despite war and terror, Israel has sought peace through both secret and public negotiations. These efforts continue to this day, despite two major Palestinian uprisings. Contents Introduction; Herzl in Basle; First Kibbutz; Balfour Declaration; Liberation of Jerusalem; Jewish High Commissioner; Opening of Hebrew university; Jewish National Institutions; Partition; British Restrictions on jewish Immigration; European War; Closing the Doors to Holocaust Survivors; The UN Resolution; War of Independence; The Siege of Jerusalem; Mass Immigration of Jews from Arab Lands; Building the Jewish State; Six-Day War; Building Up a Modern Nation After; October War; "Let My People Go"; Terror in the Skies and at the Olympics; Search for Peace; Oslo Agreements; Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin; Israel Among the Nations; Continual Search for Peace; A Vibrant Land....

:Book description Churchill and the Jews covers the whole life of this greatest of Britons -- from his youth, when he was shocked by the anti-Semitism displayed during the Dreyfus Affair, to his last meeting with David Ben-Gurion in 1960, when he gave Ben-Gurion an article he had written about Moses. In the intervening years, during which Churchill cemented his place in history, his affinity with the Jews remained undimmed, even though his championing of Zionist issues and interests was often like a red rag to the bull of the British Establishment. One of those closest to Churchill once confided to the author that "Winston had one fault -- he was too fond of Jews." What does this mean? How did this fondness manifest itself? Exploring all aspects of his life and career, Churchill and the Jews sheds new light on a key figure of the twentieth century and how his attitudes affected not just the prosecution of the Second World War but the establishment of a Jewish state that followed it....