The Haavara Agreement, established on August 25, 1933, was an economic pact facilitating the emigration of 53,000 to 60,000 German Jews to Palestine amid rising Nazi persecution.

Sept. 29 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1789, the U.S. War Department organized the country's first standing army -- 700 soldiers who would serve for three years. In 1923, Britain began to govern ...

Britain’s official post-WWI administration of Palestine lasted from 1920-48 and is probably the UK colonial enterprise least addressed by its fiction filmmakers. But now prolific writer-director ...