Contents

Historical Setting
Ancient Israel
Hellenism and the Roman Conquest
Palestine Between the Romans and Modern Times
Origins of Zionism
Arab Nationalism, World War I and the British Mandate 
The Arab and Jewish Communities During the Mandate
The Palestinian Revolt, 1936-39
World War II and Zionism
The Holocaust
Prelude to Statehood
Problems of the New State, 1948-67
The June 1967 War 
The October 1973 War
The Decline of the Labor Party
Oriental Jews
The Begin Era
Israeli Action in Lebanon, 1978-82
Fall of the Government of Likud Prime Minister Yitzhak Shami

SOURCE: Area Handbook of the US Library of Congress

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