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On November 29th, 1947,	2.68	Jump to 2.52	DATE November 29th, 1947
— for its 128th plenary meeting. On the day’s agenda:	4.48	Jump to 8.28	ORDINAL 128th DATE day
A vote to partition British Mandatory Palestine into two independent states	4.68	Jump to 12.76	NORP British CARDINAL two
The resolution required a two-thirds majority to pass.	3.88	Jump to 20.12	CARDINAL two-thirds
One exception: a Jewish Agency delegate, Abba Eban,	3.8	Jump to 33.2	CARDINAL One NORP Jewish PERSON Abba Eban
they still needed to secure three or four more votes.	4.04	Jump to 49.72	CARDINAL three CARDINAL four
In 1896, a young Austrian-Hungarian journalist, Theodor Herzl,	4.48	Jump to 102.96	DATE 1896 NORP Austrian PERSON Theodor Herzl
One year later, he chaired the first-ever Zionist congress	3.52	Jump to 166.48	DATE One year later ORDINAL first NORP Zionist ORG congress
One of the participants described Theodor Herzl	2.28	Jump to 176.48	CARDINAL One PERSON Theodor Herzl
The following year, Herzl traveled for the first and only time to Egypt	4.12	Jump to 191.88	DATE The following year GPE Herzl ORDINAL first GPE Egypt
At the end of the 19th century, all of them did!	3.88	Jump to 242.16	DATE the end of the 19th century
In 1905, the 7th Zionist Congress chose Palestine	4.16	Jump to 281.36	DATE 1905 ORDINAL 7th GPE Palestine
“one small detail: that there is in our beloved land an entire people	5.04	Jump to 297.12	CARDINAL one
and about half a million Arabs.	2.92	Jump to 333.96	CARDINAL about half CARDINAL million NORP Arabs
One group arrived, bought land in Rishon LeZion, and stayed there.	6.28	Jump to 423.52	CARDINAL One PERSON Rishon LeZion
That was one of the strangest things:	2.68	Jump to 429.8	CARDINAL one
So the moment the first Jews arrived in that initial wave of immigration,	5.4	Jump to 443.56	ORDINAL first NORP Jews
Documents from 1907, 1908 say:	4	Jump to 474.12	DATE 1907, 1908
The first kibbutz, a rural collective settlement,	2.72	Jump to 502.72	ORDINAL first
was established in Palestine in 1909.	3.2	Jump to 505.44	GPE Palestine DATE 1909
They lived in a tent for five years.	3.08	Jump to 523.76	DATE five years
This story of a desolate wasteland dates back to the 19th century.	4.04	Jump to 582.44	DATE the 19th century
They never imagined that one day their relationship to the Jews	3.72	Jump to 601.08	CARDINAL one NORP Jews
Between 1908 and 1913, eleven new Jewish settlements were established.	5.8	Jump to 638.28	DATE Between 1908 and 1913 CARDINAL eleven
In November 1917, British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour	4.64	Jump to 736.88	DATE November 1917 NORP British PERSON Arthur James Balfour
one of the leaders of the Zionist movement. Balfour wrote:	3.44	Jump to 744.88	CARDINAL one
In 1917, just when the British government	3.24	Jump to 776.96	DATE 1917 NORP British
for the Jews in Palestine, Palestinians represented 98% of the population.	6.76	Jump to 783.12	NORP Jews GPE Palestine NORP Palestinians PERCENT 98%
The most telling figure was from 1919	3.12	Jump to 794.88	DATE 1919
They conducted the first serious population census.	3.36	Jump to 800.56	ORDINAL first
In 1919, there were 700,000 Arabic speakers — meaning Arabs —	5.64	Jump to 804.76	DATE 1919 CARDINAL 700,000 NORP Arabic NORP Arabs
and 70,000 Jews.	2.32	Jump to 810.4	CARDINAL 70,000 NORP Jews
The first act of division was absolutely perverse.	3.6	Jump to 826.68	ORDINAL first
In their first census, they created categories that hadn’t existed before.	5.6	Jump to 830.28	ORDINAL first
The first waves of anti-Jewish unrest swelled in March and April of 1920	4.6	Jump to 854.16	ORDINAL first NORP anti-Jewish DATE March DATE April of 1920
in Jerusalem. More protests continued in May 1921 in Jaffa and Tel Aviv.	5.68	Jump to 858.76	GPE Jerusalem DATE May 1921 GPE Jaffa GPE Tel Aviv
More than 50 people were killed.	3.16	Jump to 864.44	CARDINAL More than 50
investigated the incidents. In 1922,	3.28	Jump to 871.12	DATE 1922
In July 1922, the League of Nations gave Britain a mandate	4.24	Jump to 879.36	DATE July 1922 ORG the League of Nations GPE Britain
Between 1924 and 1928, more than 60,000 Jewish people arrived in Palestine.	6.48	Jump to 887.52	DATE Between 1924 and 1928 CARDINAL more than 60,000 GPE Palestine
On August 20th, 1929, protests erupted between Muslims and Jews	4.68	Jump to 895.76	DATE August 20th, 1929 NORP Muslims NORP Jews
Two days later, rumors circulated about an imminent Jewish-led attack	3.84	Jump to 904.76	DATE Two days later NORP Jewish
67 Jews were killed in Hebron — among them women and children.	5.32	Jump to 916.52	CARDINAL 67 NORP Jews GPE Hebron
As a result of additional massacres in Safed, 18 Jews died.	4.84	Jump to 921.84	ORG Safed CARDINAL 18
During the week of riots, 133 Jews were killed by Arabs.	4.36	Jump to 926.68	DATE the week CARDINAL 133 NORP Jews NORP Arabs
The Nazis came to power in 1933 and began persecuting Jews in Germany,	5.24	Jump to 944.88	NORP Nazis DATE 1933 NORP Jews GPE Germany
From 1933, the Nazi-led German government	2.72	Jump to 955.6	DATE 1933 NORP Nazi NORP German
with the Third Reich’s economic minister.	2.4	Jump to 964.32	ORG the Third Reich’s
Between 1933 and 1939, tens of thousands of people moved to Palestine,	5.4	Jump to 973.8	DATE Between 1933 and 1939 CARDINAL thousands GPE Palestine
The population of Tel Aviv, founded in 1909, tripled	3.84	Jump to 990.24	ORG Tel Aviv DATE 1909
— and became home to 150,000 residents.	3.36	Jump to 994.08	CARDINAL 150,000
In 1935, David Ben-Gurion was elected chairman of the Jewish Agency.	4.92	Jump to 1010.56	DATE 1935 PERSON David Ben-Gurion ORG the Jewish Agency
Nearly two decades prior, at the age of 20,	2.68	Jump to 1015.48	DATE Nearly two decades DATE the age of 20
In April 1936, Arabs throughout Mandatory Palestine	3.84	Jump to 1045.8	DATE April 1936 NORP Arabs PERSON Mandatory Palestine
The Palestinian Arab opposition culminated in the Arab Revolt of 1936.	5.36	Jump to 1057.28	NORP Palestinian EVENT the Arab Revolt of 1936
Several hundred Arabs and more than 300 Jews were killed.	3.8	Jump to 1070.08	CARDINAL Several hundred NORP Arabs CARDINAL more than 300 NORP Jews
For one, because the Nazis were the enemies of the British and the Jews.	4.88	Jump to 1093.4	CARDINAL one NORP Nazis NORP British NORP Jews
Early on in 1936, Eichmann became the head of the Jewish department	4.56	Jump to 1144.24	DATE 1936 PERSON Eichmann NORP Jewish
had changed. For the first time,	2.2	Jump to 1219.48	ORDINAL first
In July 1938, delegates from 32 countries convened for a conference	4.48	Jump to 1257.32	DATE July 1938 CARDINAL 32
But little came out of it. None of the 32 countries present	3.44	Jump to 1265.64	CARDINAL 32
in February 1939, hoping to squash an Arab alliance with the Axis powers.	5.56	Jump to 1276.28	DATE February 1939 NORP Arab ORG Axis
The meeting brought Jews and Arabs to the table for the first time,	3.52	Jump to 1281.84	NORP Jews ORDINAL first
In September 1939, German troops invaded Poland,	3.8	Jump to 1309.04	DATE September 1939 NORP German GPE Poland
marking the start of the Second World War.	2.4	Jump to 1312.84	EVENT the Second World War
As a child, my father could read newspapers in four languages.	3.56	Jump to 1347.04	CARDINAL four
His mother died in 1939, shortly after the Nazis invaded.	4.2	Jump to 1353.24	DATE 1939 NORP Nazis
For four months, they traveled south down the Danube	3.48	Jump to 1365.24	DATE four months
He was a 12-year-old Jewish boy with nothing but the sea under his feet.	4.2	Jump to 1378.28	DATE 12-year-old NORP Jewish
At first, we thought the ghettos were the worst thing imaginable.	3.8	Jump to 1395.04	ORDINAL first
They didn’t believe it. People couldn’t grasp it at first.	4.4	Jump to 1410.12	ORDINAL first
In August 1942, a telegram arrived here saying that Himmler had decided	4.8	Jump to 1441.4	DATE August 1942 PERSON Himmler
to kill between 3.5 and 4 million people by the end of the year,	4.84	Jump to 1446.2	CARDINAL 4 million DATE the end of the year
But then the first group arrived and told people in Israel:	4.72	Jump to 1468	ORDINAL first GPE Israel
Every night, I’d hear one of them scream from a nightmare.	3.88	Jump to 1579.52	CARDINAL one
But no one was really able to put it into words.	3.44	Jump to 1616.56
I was born in September 1946, in a camp for refugees and Jews in Austria,	5.52	Jump to 1635.16	DATE September 1946 NORP Jews GPE Austria
I spent the first two years of my life in that camp, I grew up there.	4.56	Jump to 1642.16	DATE the first two years
Starting in 1945, Holocaust survivors ended up in “Displaced Persons”	5.2	Jump to 1650.56	DATE 1945 DATE Holocaust WORK_OF_ART Displaced Persons
We left Poland in the summer of 1946, after the pogrom in Kielce.	7.32	Jump to 1680.32	GPE Poland DATE the summer DATE 1946 GPE Kielce
More than 50,000 Jews landed in these detention camps,	3.48	Jump to 1751.08	CARDINAL More than 50,000
In June 1946, British authorities conducted Operation Agatha	4.6	Jump to 1790	DATE June 1946 NORP British ORG Operation Agatha
The British cracked down, arresting 2,700 people.	3.8	Jump to 1802.56	NORP British CARDINAL 2,700
One month later, members of a Jewish underground paramilitary group	3.84	Jump to 1810.16	DATE One month later
91 people were killed. The attack was widely condemned,	4.6	Jump to 1818.76	CARDINAL 91
until 1947 when the situation got really bad.	4.64	Jump to 1841.92	DATE 1947
At the request of the British in April 1947,	2.96	Jump to 1847.64	NORP British DATE April 1947
It announced it would terminate its Mandate in Palestine in 6 months’ time.	4.64	Jump to 1862.72	GPE Palestine DATE 6 months
What Palestinian leaders failed to understand in 1948	3.92	Jump to 1898.16	NORP Palestinian DATE 1948
naming it Exodus 1947.	2.56	Jump to 1930.24	DATE 1947
In July, it arrived outside Haifa with 4,500 Jewish immigrants	4.12	Jump to 1933.68	DATE July ORG Haifa CARDINAL 4,500 NORP Jewish
In the struggle, three passengers were killed and one hundred others wounded.	4.52	Jump to 1955.44	CARDINAL three CARDINAL one hundred
David Ben-Gurion listened to the first results on the radio.	3.68	Jump to 1991.48	PERSON David Ben-Gurion ORDINAL first
They then came back with the support of two small countries,	3.32	Jump to 2036.92	CARDINAL two
The resolution of the committee for Palestine was adopted by 33 votes,	8.16	Jump to 2116.04	CARDINAL 33
13 against, 10 abstentions.	2.92	Jump to 2124.2	CARDINAL 13 CARDINAL 10
in November 1947, we never would have actually achieved.	4.64	Jump to 2139.64	DATE November 1947
The UN resolution proposed dividing Palestine into two states,	4.08	Jump to 2172.04	ORG UN GPE Palestine CARDINAL two
one Jewish and the other Arab, with Jerusalem under international control.	4.4	Jump to 2176.12	CARDINAL one NORP Jewish NORP Arab
Much went wrong before 1947 too.	3.44	Jump to 2210.04	DATE 1947
Israel was born in war. People danced through the night on November the 29th.	5.8	Jump to 2303.28	GPE Israel TIME the night DATE November the 29th
met the first who were killed in the morning.	2.04	Jump to 2310.84	ORDINAL first TIME the morning
Return quickly to Tel Aviv. On the way to Ramle, there were the first dead.	5.2	Jump to 2318.56	GPE Tel Aviv ORG Ramle ORDINAL first
The first war started in 1948 with the partition.	3.52	Jump to 2326.04	ORDINAL first DATE 1948
the first Arab-Israeli war.	1.96	Jump to 2332.72	ORDINAL first NORP Arab
Three car bombs were planted in Jerusalem.	2.64	Jump to 2347.16	CARDINAL Three GPE Jerusalem
One in front of the building of the newspaper, The Palestine Post,	3.68	Jump to 2349.8	CARDINAL One ORG The Palestine Post
and a third at the offices of the Jewish Agency.	2.92	Jump to 2355.8	ORG the Jewish Agency
that broke away Haganah, threw two bombs into a group of Arab workers.	4.32	Jump to 2362.56	GPE Haganah CARDINAL two NORP Arab
Six of them were killed. In retaliation,	2.8	Jump to 2366.88	CARDINAL Six
the angry crowd killed 39 Jews before British soldiers could restore order.	5.48	Jump to 2369.68	CARDINAL 39 NORP British
In March 1948, Plan Dalet was developed, allowing Haganah to maintain order	5.28	Jump to 2375.16	DATE March 1948 GPE Haganah
around the time of Britain’s withdrawal on May 15th.	3.72	Jump to 2385	GPE Britain DATE May 15th
— independently from one another —	2.12	Jump to 2432.72	CARDINAL one
In March of 1948 there was an incident in Deir Yassin that caused panic.	6.08	Jump to 2458	DATE March of 1948 GPE Deir Yassin
Deir Yassin was a small Arab village with 600 residents,	3.72	Jump to 2466.72	PERSON Yassin NORP Arab CARDINAL 600
located five kilometers from Jerusalem.	3.16	Jump to 2470.44	QUANTITY five kilometers GPE Jerusalem
But two offshoot Zionist paramilitary groups, Irgun and Lehi,	4.52	Jump to 2477.24	CARDINAL two ORG Irgun
The operation on the morning of April 9th was poorly coordinated.	4.12	Jump to 2487.44	TIME the morning DATE April 9th
The Palestinians fought back, killing five men.	3.44	Jump to 2491.56	NORP Palestinians CARDINAL five
and blowing some up with explosives. Nearly 200 were killed in the massacre.	7.2	Jump to 2500.6	CARDINAL Nearly 200
the first US ambassador to Israel has a conversation with Weizmann,	4.08	Jump to 2584.36	ORDINAL first GPE US GPE Israel PERSON Weizmann
On May 14th, 1948, a jubilant crowd marched through the streets of Tel Aviv	5.28	Jump to 2626.68	DATE May 14th, 1948 GPE Tel Aviv
The first Arab-Israeli war began. Egyptian planes bombed Tel Aviv.	5.92	Jump to 2766.88	ORDINAL first NORP Arab NORP Egyptian GPE Tel Aviv
Almost three years after the liberation of Nazi concentration camps,	3.96	Jump to 2772.8	DATE Almost three years NORP Nazi
my father and sister went to the port and boarded one of the last boats	3.6	Jump to 2849.16	CARDINAL one
No one leaves on their own accord. No one leaves their home, their fields,	4.92	Jump to 2879.48
We are talking about 750,000 Palestinians who were displaced	5	Jump to 2934.4	CARDINAL about 750,000 NORP Palestinians
before, during, and after 1948.	3.04	Jump to 2939.4	DATE 1948
By 1947 they’d bought up 10% of the Palestinian land — only 10%.	6.92	Jump to 2971.16	DATE 1947 PERCENT 10% NORP Palestinian PERCENT only 10%
In 1948 after the war,	2.48	Jump to 2978.08	DATE 1948
As a result of the war in 1948,	2.68	Jump to 2987.92	DATE 1948
most of the 900,000 Palestinian Arabs living in the country	3.8	Jump to 2990.6	CARDINAL 900,000 NORP Palestinian
Only 150,000 Palestinians remained,	3.16	Jump to 2997.92	CARDINAL Only 150,000 NORP Palestinians
You have to keep in mind that in 1948,	3.16	Jump to 3013.8	DATE 1948
The expulsion of 800,000 Palestinians, or "natives" as we said at the time	5.2	Jump to 3020.56	CARDINAL 800,000 NORP Palestinians