The 1910s

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The 1910s

1910 to 1919

The First World War ends Ottoman rule. Britain backs a Jewish national home in the Balfour Declaration and takes Jerusalem in December 1917.

JEWISH LIFE IN THE LAND

1910 Ahuzat Bayit is renamed Tel Aviv.

1910 Degania becomes the first kibbutz.

1910 The Atlit agricultural research station opens.

1911 Meir Dizengoff becomes head of the Tel Aviv committee.

1912 Feb 24 Henrietta Szold founds Hadassah in New York.

1912 The cornerstone of the Technion is laid in Haifa.

1912 Anna Ticho arrives in Jerusalem and later draws its hills.

1913 Abel Pann arrives in Jerusalem. The painter comes to work at the Bezalel school. His drawings later record Jewish suffering in the First World War.

1913 The language war at the Technion settles on Hebrew.

1914 About 85,000 Jews live in the land.

1915 Mar The Zion Mule Corps forms in Egypt and serves at Gallipoli.

1915 May 20 Moshe Dayan is born at Degania.

1917 The Balfour Declaration. Britain backs a Jewish national home, a goal that Chaim Weizmann pursued. British forces enter Jerusalem in December.

1917 Aug The Jewish Legion forms in the British army.

1917 Oct 9 Sarah Aaronsohn dies after capture by the Ottomans.

1918 Mar The Zionist Commission arrives under Chaim Weizmann.

1918 Jul 24 The cornerstone of the Hebrew University is laid.

1919 Jan 3 Faisal and Weizmann sign an agreement.

1919 The Third Aliyah begins.

RULERS OF THE LAND

1913 Oct 28 Mendel Beilis is acquitted of blood libel in Kiev.

1914 The First World War begins. The Ottoman Empire enters the war on the German side.

1914 Nov The Ottoman Empire enters the war and expels Russian Jews.

1915 Mar Locusts devastate the crops.

1915 Jul Hussein and McMahon begin their letters on Arab independence.

1916 Jun 10 The Arab Revolt begins against the Ottomans.

1916 The Sykes-Picot agreement. Britain and France plan to divide the Ottoman Middle East between them.

1917 Apr The Ottomans expel the residents of Jaffa and Tel Aviv.

1917 British forces take Jerusalem in December, ending Ottoman rule.

1917 Oct 31 British forces take Beersheba.

1918 Sep 19 to 25 Allenby wins the Battle of Megiddo.

1919 Pogroms in Ukraine kill tens of thousands and push Jews to leave.