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A Mandatory Palestine passport shared by a Palestinian online, showing English, Hebrew and Arabic.
Mandatory Palestine was a self-segregated society. Jews in Mandatory Palestine engaged in the idea of redemption of Jewish society through self-reliant societies, while Arabs in Mandatory Palestine boycotted the Yishuv(the self-governing Jewish community in Mandatory Palestine). When a Mandatory Palestine resident travelled abroad, however, the customs officer would see the same document regardless of whether the traveller was Jewish or Arab. This document was the Mandatory Palestine Passport.
Until 1923, most people in Mandatory Palestine, being nationals of Ottoman Empire, were considered enemy nationals. Prior to 1925, residents of Mandatory Palestine carried a provisional nationality certificate to prove their Mandatory Palestine nationality, or they carried a Laissez-passer.
In 1925, an Order was issued to define the citizenship of Mandatory Palestine, which included all people inhabiting Mandatory Palestine on 1st August 1925 and people who subsequently naturalized(include mostly Jews from Central Europe, but also some Arabs and Sephardic Jews). They were considered British protected persons and received protections in British consulate, but did not have right of abode in rest of the British Empire. As a result of the order, Mandatory Palestine Passport began to be issued to Mandatory Palestine citizens, and this document would be the identifier of Palestinian nationality until 14th May, 1948.
Like many other things associated with Mandatory Palestine, Mandatory Palestine Passport was trilingual, with English, Arabic and Hebrew labels and inscriptions. The Hebrew name of Mandatory Palestine was accompanied with (E’’Y), meaning “Land of Israel”, showing the Jewish connections to the land between the river and the sea; while the Arabic name was simply Filastin. The cover, though, was in English only. This somehow reflects the power structure and the common perception of the residents about the Mandatory Palestine. The passport, like most European passports at the time, would show the personal information and spouse of the passport holder.
With Israeli independence in 1948, Mandatory Palestine Passport ceased to have legal status, and was replaced first by a provisional Israeli travel d
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I have mixed feelings here.
I think medical staff should have a hard mandate with exemptions based on medical reasons for the few immunocompromised that the vaccine is not recommended to.
But I do think vaccine passports are not a great idea when it comes to ensuring equity. I also do think the rest of the labor force should be under a soft mandate where antivaxxers can test negatively weekly for COVID if they don’t want the vaccine.
Im a (european) photographer and I’ve been learning Arabic for a while. Spent some time in Beirut and I would really like to visit the whole of Levant. I’ll be spending some time in Jordan and I would like to visit Damascus, Jerusalem and the West Bank. I’m not that worried about the danger because I know a lot of locals everywhere that can help me but more about traveling from one place to another without too much hassle (visas, restrictions and getting arrested or interrogated for having been to these different places just for tourism). What do you guys think? Is this doable?
Reason tells me yes, but since it was a League of Nations mandate rather than a colony I thought maybe it would be different? Like, administered by the British but not subject to them.
I really missed you guys though
Popping my poll cherry with mandatory vaccine passports. Seems to be gathering pace with some politicans and now Robin Swann wants to have the option to make it law.
Heiko von der Leyen:
Medical Director of the US biotech company Orgenesis which develops gene therapy products.
Is Orgenesis developing a covid vaccine?
yes.
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