The Jerusalem Post - Israel News

Edmund Allenby

West Bank’s Allenby Crossing to open '24/5,' US ambassador says

US President Joe Biden has pressed Israel to take steps to ease foreign travel for West Bank Palestinians since he entered office.

|ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides visited the Allenby Crossing on early Wednesday, to hear an update on the pilot program which has seen the crossing remain open 24 hours a day, November 9, 2022
he Isaac Ochberg Memorial Park’s bicycle trail

Strange connections from South Africa, to Israel to the Ukraine

The combatants fighting under Allenby’s command were the men of the First Battalion, Cape Corps, composed of mixed-race soldiers recruited in South Africa, the vast majority from Ochberg’s Cape Town.

|ByPETER BAILEY
Palestinians travel through a crossing monitored by COGAT on umrah, the pilgrimage to Mecca for Hajj

COGAT prepares for thousands of Palestinians on Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca

“To the pilgrims, and to the entire Muslim world, we wish a blessed Hajj," COGAT's head, Maj.-Gen. Kamil Abu Rukun, said.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Lieutenant Benzion Morrison on the eve of his departure for Egypt in June 1918

A Litvak who served in Allenby's army

|ByNORMAN MORRISON

Towering officer

‘A General and a Gentleman – Allenby at the Gates of Jerusalem.'

DECEMBER 28, 2017
ByMIKKI SHANA
Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and Felixstowe, Sara Viscountess Allenby, Eilat Lieber, director of the Tower of David Museum, John and Christina BensonA report on the historic entry of Field Marshall Edmund Allenby to Jerusalem on December 11, 1917

Exhibition: A general and a gentleman

The Tower of David Museum commemorates Gen. Edmund Allenby and the dawn of the British Mandate with a reenactment and a new exhibition.

DECEMBER 28, 2017
ByARIEL DOMINIQUE HENDELMAN
At the opening of the December 11 exhibition on the steps of the Tower of David (front row): Christina Benson; Mayor Nir Barkat; John Benson, Gen. John Shea’s great-grandson; Lady Sara Allenby; and the Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and Felixstowe. At the podium, the actor playing Gen. Edmund Allenby i

Jérusalem et l’Europe : 100 ans de malentendus

Cette semaine a marqué le centenaire de l’entrée du général Allenby à Jérusalem

DECEMBER 17, 2017
Allenby entre victorieux par la porte de Jaffa

Fais-moi peur

L’embrasement annoncé après les déclarations de Donald Trump n’a pas eu lieu

DECEMBER 17, 2017
ByMICHELE MAZEL
Des activistes du "Socialist Unity Centre" manifestant en Inde

Jerusalem celebrates a century since Allenby entered the capital

The Christians saw it as Christmas present for civilization and the Muslims regarded it as a message from the Prophet Mohammed.

DECEMBER 11, 2017
Jerusalem celebrates 100 years since Allenby entered the city with a reenactment

100 years of European involvement in the Holy City

This week marks the centennial of the start of British rule of Jerusalem.

DECEMBER 10, 2017
Original postcard showing Allenby’s proclamation to inhabitants, with an offcial surrender ceremony held by the steps of the Tower of David, on December 11, 191

1917 and the liberation of Jerusalem

Allenby deliberately chose to walk into the Old City because, he said, only the Messiah should ride into the Holy City.

NOVEMBER 19, 2017
General Allenby on his horse saluting the Indian troops outside of Jerusalem’s Jaffa Gate on December 11, 1917

Comment: Balfour’s real victory came at Beersheba

Historians have recorded how General Allenby had given each of his soldiers a Bible, and he was often found on his knees looking for direction from above.

OCTOBER 30, 2017
Descendants of soldiers from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC), ride horses along the trail that their ancestors took as troops when they made their way to Beersheba.

1917, la bataille de Beershéva

Des célébrations en grande pompe. Le 31 octobre prochain marquera le centenaire de la conquête de Beershéva.

OCTOBER 30, 2017
Un bombardement aérien