- 1929 Safed massacre
The 1929 Safed massacre took place on
29 August during the1929 Palestine riots . EighteenJew s were killed (some sources say twenty) and eighty wounded. [Kaplan, Neil (1983) "Early Arab-Zionist Negotiation Attempts, 1913-1931". London: Routledge, ISBN 0-7146-3214-7, p. 82.] The main Jewish street was looted and burned. ['Arab Attack At Safed', "The Times", Saturday,August 31 ,1929 ; pg. 10; Issue 45296; col D.] ['The Safed Disorders', "The Times", Monday,September 2 ,1929 ; pg. 12; Issue 45297; col D.]The members of the Commission of Inquiry visited the town on
1 November . ['Palestine Inquiry Commissioners To Visit Safed', "The Times", Saturday,November 2 ,1929 ; pg. 11; Issue 45350; col E.]References
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Timeline of Zionism
*Timeline of Jewish History
*Riots in Palestine of May, 1921 External links
* [http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/0/5f21f8a1ca578a57052566120067f658?OpenDocument Minutes of the Seventeenth (Extraordinary)Session of the Permanent Mandates Commission]
* [http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/9a798adbf322aff38525617b006d88d7/59a92104ed00dc468525625b00527fea!OpenDocument Report of the Commission appointed by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, with the approval of the Council of the League of Nations, to determine the rights and claims of Moslems and Jews in connection with the Western or Wailing Wall at Jerusalem]
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