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Palestine: Its Origins

Author: Meir Abelson

Product code: BT42

This 24-page booklet is an important supplement to many of the details documented in Hatikvah Film Trust’s ’The Forsaken Promise’, and helps set these incidents within the context of unfolding events in the British Mandate period between 1917 and 1948.

An important contributor to the historical background of the documentary, Meir Abelson has spent many years researching and writing about the Arab-Israeli conflict in the 20th century.

About the Author

Meir Abelson

Meir Abelson received a BA (Hons.) degree from the University of London in Classical & Medieval Hebrew with Aramaic. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institution
of Chartered Surveyors, London; Retired Flight-Lieut., Royal Air Force (Britain); and retired Land Valuer at the Chief Government Valuer�s Office, Ministry of
Justice, Jerusalem.

A researcher of the Arab-Israeli dispute and author for nine years of the monthly �Letter from Jerusalem� which was circulated to nine countries, and printed partly at the Foreign Office and partly at the Prime Minister�s Office.