That's How It Was

Scenes of daily life in Israel and Palestine during various times in modern history. The views represented here are not necessarily the views of the blog owner. var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-25239192-2']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); var sc_project=7163322; var sc_invisible=1; var sc_security="61f0074d";

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I really want to see pictures of Libyan & Egyptian Jews in Israel ?

Will do!

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Requests

Hello! I am taking requests, so if you would like to see photos of a specific time period, place, or event I would be happy to post them. :)

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Three sisters. Tel Aviv, 1992. Taken by Vardi Kahana.

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Georgian Jewish passover.

[dr-treyf]

You all should watch the film ‘Late Marriage’ about Georgian Jews

[vintageisrael]

I love that movie and you should go watch it but it's also so bizarre

[halalchampagnesocialist]

I was looking at the vintageisrael blog and there are so many pictures of militiamen/idf soldiers in the early days of the state, and i realise they’re all using soviet weapons (if i’m right) but that’s sort of weird?

[vintageisrael]

Well in the early days the IDF/various militias used whatever weapons they could... there was also a weird short time period around 1948 where the Soviet Union supported Israel. There were also weapon deals from Czechoslovakia to the Haganah but most of those were rifles from Nazi Germany (which I personally find weirder).

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Arab members of Maki, the “Israeli” Communist Party (a descendant of the Palestine Communist Party) in 1949. In 1965 the party split into two factions, one Zionist and the other anti-Zionist. The Zionist faction retained the name Maki, while the anti-Zionist faction named itself Rakah. The Soviet Union recognized Rakah as the official communist party in Palestine quickly after its formation. Rakah still exists today, and ironically, it has renamed itself Maki, while the original (Zionist) Maki has been disbanded.

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Kibbutz girls, 1947.

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Kibbutz, 1946.

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hooded collaborators from kafr al-labbad, palestine, escorted in an israeli vehicle, identify fellow villagers from an identification parade in which all men of the village were rounded up.

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this is my favorite tumblr. thank you!

Thank you!!! :)

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Then MK David Ben-Gurion in his library in SDE Boker, May 1968

Haaretz.com TBT

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Holocaust survivors undergo secret military training in the Cyprus refugee camps.

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Palmachniks train as combat medics. 1942.

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Palmachniks.

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Israel. May 1948.

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Members of the Haganah in an outpost in Jerusalem. 1947.

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Haganah man in Tel Aviv.