Photos: New Blog: Israel's History - a Picture a Day

Utilizing a newly available collection of old photographs, Israel's History - a Picture a Day is open for business:

The Library of Congress has digitalized thousands of photographs in its collection and made them available online. Many of them are over 100 years old. We bring you a picture a day from this amazing collection, pictures that show the history of the Land of Israel in the last century, putting them into historical, Biblical and contemporary context.

By the way, the posts each have more than one picture.

Illustrating a history of the Jews in Palestine that the Arabs often deny ever existed, the blog has photos such as the Jewish evacuation from Jerusalem's Old City after 1929 pogroms, Jews evacuating the Old City during the 1936 Arab revolt against Britain and The expulsion of Jews from the Old City under the guns of Jordanian soldiers--with background information.

Here are some of the photos:

from: Jewish Expulsions from Jerusalem -- 1929, 1936, 1948

from: Winston Churchill's Visit to Jerusalem 1921 

(with Lawrence of Arabia and future King Abdullah of Transjordan )

The Churchill post has a short video of Rav Kook as he and other leading rabbis shake hands with Churchill as they leave a meeting.

from: Joseph's Tomb

Check it out.

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