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Israeli soldiers occupy towns in 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict. United Nations meets. People celebrate Israel in New York City.

Israeli Haganah soldiers (shortly before formation of Israeli Defense Forces or IDF) advance through war-torn Haifa during 1948 Arab-Israeli War in Palestine region. Israeli soldiers search Arabs at a checkpoint. Arabs detained by Israelis. Palestinian refugees fleeing Israeli occupied area carrying their belongings (one using a baby carriage for that purpose). Dejected Palestinian women and children. Dead bodies of Arabs on the ground. Israelis advancing in a town using an armored car. Two armed Israeli soldiers holding their flag. Israeli soldiers gathered together conversing behind Barricade and barbed wire. United Nations meeting at headquarters in Lake Success, New York. A speaker at the podium. Delegates conversing between sessions. Jewish people celebrate the new State of Israel, in New York City, in May 1948. A boy hoists the new country's flag from an apartment window, as crowd stands outside and celebrates. A group of young people dance the Hora (circle dance) in the midst of the crowd.

Date: 1948
Duration: 2 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035701
Views of Jerusalem and surroundings with both Jewish and Arab residents in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

Late 1930s and early 1940s life in Jerusalem, Palestine. Views from 1917 era as British military patrol under British Army General Edmund Allenby advances in military trucks up the plains from Gaza. Arab forces riding on camels. The Arabs move in support. Jerusalem is captured by the British in 1917. British men in the city. Jerusalem aerial view of late 1930s and approximately 1940 "new" Jerusalem contrasting the ancient and old parts of the city and new buildings. Narrator descriptions and visual portrayals of nationalism among Jewish and Arab residents in Jerusalem. Jewish men construct what the narrator terms as "a typical Zionist house just going up" Jewish civilians walking on the streets including one woman pushing a baby carriage. Cars move on a street and a view of a bus moving up Queen Mary Avenue. Jewish residents at a beach of Tel Aviv. They enjoy the water and dance the hora at the water's edge. A British man teaches an Arabic farmer the modern methods of agriculture. Men harvest food grains with a harvester. Arab boys in a class get a proper education "as in Europe." Palestinian girls in dresses play a game of basketball. The ex mayor of Jerusalem Hussein al-Khalidi in the center and other people around him.

Date: 1941
Duration: 2 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047423
Jewish refugees from the Haganah immigration ship Haim Arlozorov disembark in Palestine.

Jewish refugees the Haim Arlozorov are transferred to a transport ship for eventual processing in Cyprus. Jews from Europe attempting to enter Palestine on the refugee ship Haim Arlozorov stand on the deck of a transport ship while others wait to disembark. A young Jewish man looks at the camera as he waits to disembark. A British soldier holds back a refugee to allow others to disembark. Jewish refugees, some bandaged due to injuries sustained while fighting the British, walk up the gangplank onto the dock. British soldiers on the dock while refugees stand behind barbed wire.

Date: 1947
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078615
Doctor A H Silver speaks for the United Palestine Appeal in New York City, United States.

National Chairman of the United Palestine Appeal, Doctor Abba Hillel Silver gives a speech in New York City, United States. He holds several documents in his hands. He talks about building a new hope for the Jews by upbringing of Palestine. He expresses hope that American Jewry will raise funds. United Palestine Appeal aims to aid in resettling of Jews in Palestine.

Date: 1938, March
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053790
Spokesman for Jewish Agency for Palestine and National Council of Jews of Palestine presents statement to UN Security Council

Meeting of the United Nations Security Council at Lake Success, New York, in 1947. A representative of the Jewish Agency for Palestine and National Council of the Jews of Palestine [possibly Abba Hillel Silver] presents a statement approved by those groups on march 23, 1947. They object and are disappointed in the position taken by the United States regarding Palestine's administration, and state that at the end of the mandatory administration, a provisional Jewish Government will be established, not later than May 16th. The Soviet Union's representative to the UN, Andrei Gromyko, is seated at the same table, wearing dark glasses.

Date: 1947
Duration: 2 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675061334
Political advisors of the Jewish Agency for Palestine in a meeting in London during the Zionist Movement of World War II.

The Zionist Movement in England during World War II. The exterior of Jewish Agency for Palestine. People enter and leave the building. Inscription in Hebrew on a board in the Agency. The inscription reads 'Zionist Organization'. Political advisors of the Jewish Agency for Palestine in a meeting. Doctor Waismann, Mrs Dugdale (niece of the Lord Balfour), J Linton, Berl Locker, Professor Brodetsky and Professor Namier in a meeting preceded by Doctor Chaineizmann. Dignitaries converse with each other at the table. Doctor Weizmann shows position of Jewish settlement on the map of Palestine.

Date: 1944
Duration: 4 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064200