Zionist-Palestinian Violence Breaks out in Jaffa

Theodor Herzl sends a letter to the Palestinian mayor of Jerusalem, Yusuf Diya-uddin Pasha al-Khalidi, hinting that, if Zionists are not welcome in Palestine, they will go elsewhere.

Upon his request, Herzl appears before a special British government commission that was established in March to consider ways to restrict increasing immigration from Eastern Europe, including the...

David Wolffsohn, a close associate of Theodor Herzl and director of the Jewish Colonial Trust, takes over the leadership of the Zionist movement.

Egyptian and Ottoman representatives sign in Rafah ”Administrative Separating Line" between the Mutasarrifiyya of Jerusalem and the Province of Hijaz on one side and, on the other side, the Sinai...

Jews who had come to Palestine during the second immigration wave meet at the home of Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (who will be elected the second president of the State of Israel in 1952) in Jaffa and establish...

Army officers loyal to the Committee of Union and Progress take control of Istanbul and force Sultan Abd al-Hamid II to restore the 1876 constitution and call for parliamentary elections.

Around 60 Zionists who reside in Jaffa and belong to a society called Ahuzat Bayit (House Estate), distribute among themselves some twelve acres of land they had purchased on the northern outskirts of...

The founders of the Bar Giora Group that was created in 1907 as an underground organization meet in Kfar Tavor colony (previously Mas-ha) in Tiberias subdistrict and decide to publicly establish,...

The enactment of the Associations Law constitutes a response to political developments that had threatened Ottoman unity as envisioned by the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) and the latter’s...

The right to own property is extended to juridical persons, corporate bodies such as companies, societies, and charitable institutions.