Glossary: History & Statehood

Glossary terms in this category, defined plainly.

• Balfour Declaration
• British Mandate
• Haganah
• Herzl
• IDF
• Jewish indigeneity
• Knesset
• Partition Plan (UN 181)
• San Remo
• Six-Day War
• Zionism
• Naksa
• Grand Mufti (Amin al-Husseini)
• USS Liberty Incident
• UN Resolution 242
• Temple Mount
• The Status Quo (Holy Places)
• The Farhud
• The Peel Commission
• The Khartoum Resolution
• King David Hotel Bombing
• The War of Attrition
• Petah Tikva (the Moshavot)
• The Final Solution
• Wannsee Conference
• Einsatzgruppen
• Babi Yar
• Sonderkommando
• The Leuchter Report
• Righteous Among the Nations
• Yad Vashem
• Plan Dalet
• Dome of the Rock
• The Night Journey (Isra and Mi’raj)
• Did Jews only arrive in 1948?