British diplomats around the world are hosting a series of football matches to mark the 100th anniversary of the First World War Christmas truce.
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Jerusalem conference remembers the First World War and its impact on the Jewish world’
A conference “A World in Turmoil: World War I and its Impact on the Jewish World” has been held at Efrata College of Education in Jerusalem on February 26, 2015.
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Jerusalem conference remembers the First World War and its impact on the Jewish world’
A conference “A World in Turmoil: World War I and its Impact on the Jewish World” has been held at Efrata College of Education in Jerusalem on February 26, 2015.
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Centenary News countdown to First World War anniversaries in 2017
The penultimate year of the Great War unleashed events that would reshape the world in the 20th century.
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100 Years Ago: Battle of Beersheba opens Allied way to Palestine
Allied fortunes in the Sinai campaign turned following the arrival of a new commander, and victory at Beersheba on 31 October 1917, writes Major Paul Knight.
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100 Years Ago: Battle of Beersheba opens Allied way to Palestine
Allied fortunes in the Sinai campaign turned following the arrival of a new commander, and victory at Beersheba on 31 October 1917, writes Major Paul Knight.
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100 Years Ago: The Balfour Declaration
Britain pledged its support for the establishment of a ‘national home for the Jewish people’ in Palestine, in a letter written by Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour on 2 November 1917.
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100 Years Ago: Jerusalem falls to British-led forces
General Sir Edmund Allenby entered Jerusalem on 11 December 1917 after a six-week campaign against the Ottomans in Palestine, as Major Paul Knight explains.
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100 Years Ago: Jerusalem falls to British-led forces
General Sir Edmund Allenby entered Jerusalem on 11 December 1917 after a six-week campaign against the Ottomans in Palestine, as Major Paul Knight explains.
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The Battle of Megiddo – Ottoman Army in Palestine destroyed
Major Paul Knight on the Allied attack in September 1918 that dealt a fatal blow to the Central Powers in the Middle East.
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