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7 8 HAIFA P 0.B. READ The Kingsway THE HAIFA WELFARE PHOTO HOUSE ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE (Approved Military PUBLISHED -gagher) WEEKLY FOR ALL INFORMATION Khayat Square ON LOCAL EVENTS . opp. Post Office AND enmse mxY t'o ENTERTAINMENTS. Officers Shop.. . FOUND AT ALL CLUBS, HOSTELS AND AMATEUR SERVICE and LEADING HOTELS. PORTRAITS

NAAMAN LTD., HAIFA CLAY BRICK WORKS P.O.B. 1423 - Phone: Offices 2880, Factory 7220. RED BURNT CLAY BRICKS. 11 TNUVA All kinds of solid and hollow bricks, Red Clay. I DAIRY PRODUCTS, FRUITS, FIREPROOF GOODS. VEGETABLES, HONEY, JAMS ETC. 1 All kinds and shapes of fire bricks, Standard - ~1 Size, Cones, Slabs etc. for all industrial purposes. I 1 , Those who know the Orient will appreciate POTTERY. I' =r= TNUVA'S -= For household and industry. -I PROGRESSIVE METHODS OF PRODUCTION! - ~S~~IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII~IIII ~IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII~~IIRS NOTICE TO THE MILITARY I AND AHUZA BUS SERVICE ) COOP. COMPANY LIMITED BOUTAGY'S HIRE SECTION Boutas offers for hire Radios, ROUTE No. 4. Ranges, Typerwriters, Pianos, at moderate terms. Haifa Town to ~huktHerbert Samuel Inspection by appointment only. ROUTE No. 4A Telephone HAIFA 3062, or visit Hadar Hacarmel to Central Camel Reception Office, Jaffa Rd., Haifa. ROUTE No. 4B T. S. BOUTAGY and SONS Ahuzat Herbert Samuel to Khayat Beach H.M.V. House on the road to Bat Galim, HA I F A. ~IALROUTE i Central Carmel to Yaaroth Hacarmel

-~~1111111~111111lllllll~llllllllllllIll~ - With the compliments of - - -n When spending your Leave in Haifa or Tel-Adiv -2 HEROUTH LTD. VISIT OUR BOOKSHOPS Contractors of sanitary installations, at drainage, hot water supply, central HAIFA : Central Railway Station heating and steam. : 29 Allenby Road, 64 Allenby Road, Suppliers of sanitary materials. and Central Bus Station He& Offire: Montefiore St. TEL AVIV here you will find the latest English and P.O.Box. 1969 'PHONE 4762 American books, newspapers and magazines. Branches : HAIFA 63 Harbour St P.O.B. 648 Tel. 4789 PALES PRESS CO. LTD. T E L A V I V 1 Jaffa-Tel Aviv Rd. Conressionnaires in Militdry Camps and P.O.B. 1969 Tel. 4762 .rappliers to Education and Welfare JERUSALEM Jaffa St. P.O.B. 342 Tel. 3096 ,O f f i c e r s and M i 1 it a r y Librmies. -- - SMOKE n CEDEHA CIGARS With Compliments of THE HOUSE FOR ELEGANT LEA~HER GOODS k 8 GIFTS -i!h 3. PALESTINE SHIP REPAIRS DE HAAS BROS CO. LTD. Manufacturers of HAIFA high quality cigars - HAIFA - Now Busin. Contra 11.- ~aifu POB. 34Tel. 7167 1 opp. Savoy Hotel

THE With compliments of the MISHMAR HAMIFRATZ UNIVERSAL WARDEN (KV. ZIFZIF) LTD. BOOKSHOP INSURANCE BUS ROUTE NO. 14. CONNECTING HAIFA WITH : 41, KINGSWAY, HAIFA CO. LTD. REFINERY SITE KIRYAT BIALIK (opp. Police Headquarters) - LIVERPOOL - INDUSTRIAL CENTRE KIRYAT YAM I IR-GANIM SABINA Lurge Selection of represented by the KIRYAT FROSTIG "NAAMAN" English Books / Newspapers KIRYAT BENJAMIN SHAVE1 ZION Periodicals / Magazines PALESTINE MILLING KFAR ATA NAHARIA Technical and Educational. & TRADING CO. LTD RAMAT JOHANAN BASSA Books KIRYAT HAIM MATZUBA KIRYAT MOTZKIN HANITA HAIFA I EILON INDEX TO GENERAL INFORMATION

Page Page Acwmmodation 23-25 Education 18 African Canteen 23 Education Officer 18 Amphitheatre 2 1 En- Dor Gnema 2 1 Area Cashier 16 ENSA 2 1 Armon Cinema 2 1 Entertainments 13; 20, 21, 22 Army Garrison Club 21. 23 Entertainments Guide 20-22 Army Post Office 15 EFI Officers Club 19 Army Welfare Officer 17 EFI Officers Club Annex 19 B. EFI Officers Club Annex 19 Banks 16 F. Barclays Bank (D.C.&O) 16.20 Far- 15 Bat Galim Swimming Pool 20 Field Cashier 16 Bathing 18, 20 Forces Information Bureau Baths, hot 18 14, 15, 19, 20, 25 British Institute. The British Forces Night 2 1 Sailors' Insoihte 19, 23 G. PALESTINI! AUTOMOBILE CORP. Ltd. Buses 15, 20, 21 General Hospital 14 I I C. Gramophone Recitals 22. 23 Cables and Wireless 16 H. New Business Centre HAIFA Tel. 4211 Canteens 13, 18, 23, 24, 25 Hadera 25 Central Railway Station 16 Haifa Central Station 16 Church Army Hut 25 Haifa Cinemas 20, 21 Church of England 22 Haifa East Station 15 Church of Scotland 22 Haifa Welfare Entertainments Church, Roman Catholic 22 Guide 20. 21. 22 RUBBER FACTORY Churches 22 Hibbert House 25 Church Services 22 Hospital, 42nd General 14 Cinemas 20, 21 Hostels 13, 14, 22, 23, 24, 25 FRANZ LEV1 LTD. Civ~il Post Office 16 Hot Baths 18 Clubs 19-25 Hotels 25 TEL. 3652 HATFA P.O.B. 287 Club services 22 Hot Showers 18 Concerts 19, 22, 23 I. RUBBER HOSES C. M. P. 14, 15 Indian Army Post Office 15 WATERPROOFS Currency l7 Information Bureau, Forces D. 14, 15. 19, 20. 25 BELTING Dances 19, 21, 23 J. DINGHIES Debates Jewish Soldiers' Club 23 Dolphin, The iz K. AND ALL KINDS OF HUBBER GOODS E. Khayat Beach Bathing East Station. Haifa 15 Establishment 20 L. R. Leave & Report Gntre 14, 15 Railway Stations 15. 16 Lectures 19. 23 R. T. O., 15 Legal Aid I8 Rtcreation Club. Soldiers' Legal Aid Welfare Officer I8 18. 21, 22, 24 Library 18, 19, 23 Roman Catholic Church 22 Little Beach, The 20 RAOC Officers Shop t8 S. M. Salvation Army Hostel 22. 24 Married Couples. St. Andrewa Club, Haifa 22, 24 accommodation of 24, 25 St. Andrewr Hmtel, Tiberiaa 25 Medical Attention 14 St. Luke's Church 22 FOREWORD. M.M.C. Club 23 Services, Church 22 Moriah Hall 2 1 Services, Club 22 N. Showers, Hot and Cold 18 This Guide is published for the particular use of those SIB 14 members of HM and Allied Forces who corn to HAIFA NAAFI/EFI Canteen 23, 25 Soldiers Recreation Club NAAFI/EFI Officers Club 19 18, 21, 22, 24 either on leave, in transit or on posting. I hope that it will NAAFI/EFI Officers Club S. S. A. F. A. 17. I8 fill a long felt need and that the information it contains Annex 19 Sports Shop. NAAFl 19 concerning the history, entertainments and amenities of NAAFI Sports Shop 19 Stations, Railway 15. 16 Nathanya 25 HAIFA will be of interest and use. 25 T. As will be seen from the Guide, the Services in HAIFA ~ajMahal Club 24 0. Taxi Fares 15 are very much indebted to the various voluntary and philan- Officer i/c. Transport 15 Tea Garden 24 thropic organisations for their provision of hostels, canteens, Officers Club 19 Tiberias 25 and entertainment. I should like to take this opportunity of Officers Club Annex 19 Torch House I8 thanking them, their representatives and the various mem- Officers Shop I8 Tours 19, 20. 23 bers of the civilian community who devote so much time Omnibuses 15, 20. 21 Trains 14. 15 163 Transit Camp 20, 23 Transit Camp 20, 23 and energy to the welfare of the troops in the Area. Ottoman Bank 16 Transport Officer 15 1 should also like to thank the advertise~sin the Guide, P. uv who by their support have made its publication possible. Victory Baths 18 Pal. Maritime League Sailors Club 24 W. BRIGADIER J. 0. CARPENTER. C.B.E., M.C. Palestine Police 15 Welfare En~ertainmentGuide Palestinian Currency 17 20, 21. 22 Parcels to England 16 Welfare Officer, 15 Area 17 Places of Worship 22 Welsh Society 19 Plymouth Brethren 22 Whist Drives 22 Police. Military 14, 15 Womens' Services 21 Pool, Bat Calim Swimming 20 Worship, Places of 22 Post Office. Army I5 Writing rooms 23, 24, 25 Port Office. Civil 16 XYZ. Post Office, Indian Army 15 YWCA 24 apply to R.T.O. and to the Forces Information Bureau. GENERAL INFORMATION. All milihry traffic use HAIFA EAST Station.

LEAVE AND REPORT CENTRE. (C.M.P.) TAXI FARES. All personnel arriving on leave will report immediately All officers and other ranks who are not fully con- on arrival to the Leave and Report Centre, Kingsway. versant with the Area, are advised to visit the Forces Infor- Tel. No. 6004. matmionBureau and study the scale of taxi fares for Haifa and district. Officers and other ranks are advised to get a THE FORCES INFORMATION BUREAU. Tel. 6178. receipt for fares paid if they are of the opinion that they are being overcharged. It is only in this way that the C.M.P. The Forces Information Bureau is available to answel (with the help of the Palestine Police) can assist. all your queries. If there is anything you want to know about Haifa or it's surroundings, about it's hostels, it's ho- tels, available trips, or i,f .it is just one of those questions BUSES. to which you do not know the answer ...... go to the Forces Owing to continual alterations, no details can be given of Information Bureau, which will be found in the Leave and these. For particulars of all bus services and time tables, Report Centre, Kingsway. apply to the Forces Information Bureau. Hours of business 08.45 hrs. - 13.00 hrs. 14.30 hrs. - 17.00 hrs. OFFICER ijc TRANSPORT Sundays 10.00 hrs. - 12.00 hrs. The office of the Officer i/c Transport is to be found on the main Haifa-Tel Aviv road, between Bat Galim and SIB. Khayat: Beach. Tel. No. 613. To contact the Security Investigation Bureau, ring. Tel. No. 6119. ARMY POST OFFICE. The Army Post Office is at the extreme eastern end 15 AREA PRO COY. of Kingsway on the comer to the entrance to the docks. To contact the CMPs ring Tel. No. 4451. INDIAN ARMY POST OFFICE. MEDICAL ATTENTION. This office is to found halfway down Kingsway, op- In case of illness necessitating the attention of a Medical posite the Leave and Report Centre. Officer, ring the 42nd. General Hospital. Tel. NO. 4476.

TRAINS. Wolfschmidt's KUMMEL -- For particulars of all train services and time tables, - PARCELS TO ENGLAND. All ranks should note that it is forbidden to send A Palestinian pound is made up of one thousand mils. parcels home, excepting through unit channels. NO SHOPS The following coins will be encountered: are authorised to despatch parcels home on behalf of military 1 mil pieces (copper) represents sd personnel. 2 mil pieces (copper) ,, I/z d - 5 mil pieces (copper or silver) ,, ll/qd CABLES AND WIRELESS. 10 mil pieces (copper or silver) , 2I/zd 50 mil pieces (silver) ,> 1/- Cables can be despatched from the Civil Post Office, 100 mil pieces (silver) ,, 2/- Main Office, Khayat Square (entrance opposite Officer's Shop) Kingsway. For prices and further details apply Post NOTES. Office. 500 mil notes represents lo/- BANKING FACILITIES. 1000 mil notes ,, i 1. The two pri,ncipal banks in Haifa are: WELFARE OFFICER, H.Q. 15 Area. BARCLAYS BANK (DOMINION, COLONIAL The Army Welfare Officer is to be found at H.Q. 15 & OVERSEAS.) Next to Haifa Central Railway Station, Kingsway. Area. Tel. No. 4341 Ext. 10. Hours of business : Office Hours. Monday to Friday ... 0830 hrs. - 1230 hrs. 0800 hrs. - 1300 hrs. Saturday ...... 0900 hrs. - 1200 hrs. 1715 hrs. - 1930 hrs. Tel. No. 4551. CLOSED every SUNDAY THE OTTOMON BANK - 57 Kingsway. SOLDIERS' SAILORS' AND AIRMENS' FAMILIES Hours of business : ASSOCIATION. Monday to Friday ... 0830 hrs. - 1230 hrs. Saturday. ..,...... 0900 hrs. -- 1200 hrs. There is a local branch of S.S.A.F.A. to be found at Tel. Nos. 2723 & 3345. Pardess House, Palmers Gate, Kingsway. AREA AND FIELD CASHIER. Office Hours, The Area and Field Cashier is to be found in the 0800 hrs - 1300 hrs Barclays Bank building, Kingsway. Tel. No. 6154. 1430 hrs - 1730 hrs Hours of busi,ness : Closed every Wednesday. Tel. No. 6157.

- Monday to Saturday 0830 hrs. - 1230 hrs. Lpppp-p-p 1430 hrs. - 1630 hrs. Wolfschmidt's CHERRY BRANDY Sunday...... 0930 hrs. - 1200 hrs. ~~~~~~--~~~~p~- LEGAL AID. N.A.A.F.I. SPORTS SHOP. The Legal Aid Welfare Officer visits S.S.A.F.A. office The N.A.A.F.I. Sports Shop, open to all ranks, holds regularly and appointments should be made through that a large stock of all sports equipment at reasonable prices. office. It will be found in Garden Street, neat Carmel Avenue.

EDUCATION. E.F.I. OFFICERS CLUB. The Officers Club is situated in Carmel Avenue, Tel. The Area Education Officer is available daily at Torch No. 2091. All meals are served. Restaurant and Bar. Dances House, 39 Vine Street, off Carmel Avenue. At Torch House will be found an excellent reference library and quiet reading are held every Wednesday and Saturday during the summer on an open air dance floor, commencing at 2000 h~.Officers rooms. For all particulars regarding educational courses or may invite two pests on these days. The club has sleeping studies of all kinds, apply to the Education Officer, Tel. accommodation for a limited number of junior officers, but NO. 6002. this accommodation cannot be booked in advance. HOT BATHS. E.F.I. OFFICERS CLUB ANNEX. * The Victory Baths, myat Street, off Kingsway, are Additional sleeping\ accommodation is now available at the available for all ranks. There are two classes of baths. First Annex, situated in Garden Street. Booking to be made at the Class, priced at 50 mils (one bath in a room) or Second EFI Officers Club, 4 Carmel Avenue. Claps priced at 30 mils (two baths in a room). H,ire of Towel 15 mils. . It is suggested that men take their own THE BRITISH INSTITUTE, MICHALLIS STREET. towels. , The British Institute provides a series of concerts, lectures and exhibitions of varied interest. A detailed pro- SHOWERS. gramme can be obtained on application. A large library is Hot and cold showers are available at the Soldiers' also available. Recreation Canteen, Jaffa Road. Soap and towel are provided WELSH SOCIETY. if necessary. The Welsh Society meets at the British Sailors Society, OFFICERS SHOP. Harbour Street, off Kingsway, every Tuesday at 2030 hrs. All Welsh men and women are cordially invited. The Officers Shop is to be found in Khayat Square, off Kingsway. TOURS.

Hours ' of business : Application should be made to the Forces Information Weekdays -. 0800 hrs - 1300 hrs ' 1430 hrs - 1730 hrs Wolfschmidt's EGG BRANDY Sunday closed. -- Bureau, Tel. No. 6178 for all information on tours in the see the Haifa Welfare Entertainment Guide. I district. I The ARMON CINEMA. SWIMMING. THE LITTLE BEACH. Tel. No. 4848. The Armon Cinema, Hadar Hacarmel. This mtilitary bathing establishment is situated at Bat THE AMPHITHEATRE. Galim, between the Government Hospital and 163 Transit Camp. Little Beach has facilities for sea bathing, including Tel. No. 4017. The Amphitheatre is to be found in He- I showers and changing rooms. Life savers are always on duty. chaldz St. just off Herd Street. Obey their instructions. Other facilities include NAAFI restaurants and bars, and an open air dance floor. Admission THE EN-DOR. is free. Tel. No. 3421. The En-Dor Cinema is just off Jaffa Road, at the New hsiness Centre end. BATHING ON THE HAIFA COAST IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. 1 MORIAH HALL. It is a very serious offence to use any bathing places Tel. No. 2758. The Moriah Hall is situated on the Ah other than Little Beach, Khayat' Beach Bathing Establishment, Huza Road abut l/4 mile beyond Centre Carrnel. A NO. as I Bat Galim Swimming Pool, and such places are laid down 4 Bus stops outside the door. in Area Orders, unless with an organised bathing party equipped with life saving apparatus and detailed life savers. I Khayat Beach lies to the South West of Haifa on the 1 FORCES NIGHT. Tel Aviv road, and an excellent bus service connects it with Forces Night every Friday,, is held ia the Armon Cinema. the town, a NCY3 bus starting near Barclays Bank, Kingsway. Excellent programmes are put on by ENSA. Besides film The Bat Galim Swimming Pool, near 163 Transit Camp, shows, occasional stage shows are also given. Prices 15, 25, is reached from Kingsway by a No 6 or a No 7 bus. An and 50 mils. No civilians alloed. Doors open 2000 hrs. entrance fee is charged for admission to the pool. Show starts 2100 hrs. 15 Area Welfare broadcast recorded music from 2015 hrs. to 2100 h~s. READ THE HAIFA WELFARE ENTERTAINMENTS GUIDE, PUBLISHED WEEKLY, FOR INFORMATION DANCES. AND "WHATS ON". FOUND IN ALL CLUBS, 1 Dances are held regularly at the Garrison Club, Balfour HOSTELS, LEADING HOTELS AND IN ALL UNITS. Street, and the Soldiers Recreation Club, Jaffa Road. For full - . I particulars and times apply at the reception desks of the ENTERTAINMENTS. -- CINEMAS. For programmes and times of showing in Haifa Cinemas, Wolfschmidts CREME DE MENTHE respective clubs, or see the Haifa Welfare Entertainment CLUBS AND HOSTELS. Guide.

WHIST DRIVE. AFRICAN CLUB. A whist drive is held regularlyi at the Soldiers Recreation This club for African soldiers is situated about 200 yards Club. See Haifa Welfare Entertainment Guide. along Jaffa Road (on Tel Aviv side of Carmel Avenue). Light refreshments are served. CONCERTS, GRAMOPHONE RECITALS, ETC. ARMY GARRISON CLUB. These are held regularly. See Haifa Welfare Entertain- ment Guide. . Arranges tours, dances, lectures, debates and musical concerts. Restaurant and rest room.

PLACES OF WORSHIP. BRITISH SAILORS INSTITUTE. For details of Church Services, see the Haifa Welfare A peace time institution primarily for the use of all Entertainment Guide. members of H. M. Navy. Restaurant, rest mom, billiard room and library. CHURCH OF ENGLAND. A special canteen for members of H. M. Mercantile Marine- -~ ---. is-~ situated below the British Sailors Institute. . St. Luke's Church, Mountain Road. Accommodation is available. ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. German Hospice, Jaffa Road. JEWISH SOLDIERS CLUB, Herd Street, CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. A Club for Jewish soldiers. Open to other members of the services by invitation only. Light refreshments only. Church of Scotland (St. Andrews) - Hospital Street. THE MMG CLUB. Seaforth Rd. Bat Galim. PLYMOUTH BRETHREN. This Club situated near the 163 Transit Camp provides a restaurant, and reading and writing rooms. Bethesda Chapel, corner of Carmel Avenue Accommodation is available. and Allenby Road. N.A. A.F.I./E.F.I. CANTEEN, Kingsway, CLUB SERVICES. A large canteen and restaurant open to all ranks is to In addition to the above mentioned places of worship, be found below the St. Andrew's Hostel, Kingswy. club services are held at: - St. Andrew's Cbb, Kingsway. Salvation Army Hostel, Kingsway. Wolfschmidt's WODKA PAL. MAIUTIME' LEAGUE SAILORS CLUB, Kingsway. 15 AREA. A club for Jewish sailors. Open to other members of CLUBS AND HOSTELS OUTSIDE HAIFA. the services by invitation only. Light refreshments only. HADERA. ST. ANDREW'S THREE SERVICES CLUB, THE DOLPHIN. HOSTEL AND CANTEEN, Kingsway. The "Dolphin" Club, canteen and restaurant is run by N.A.A.F.I. Available for all ranks. Hot This club is in the middle of Kingsway. It has large meals served. Reading and writing rooms and premises containing restaurants, rest rooms, reading ind games rooms. Car Park. writing rooms and games rooms. A large N.A.A.F.I./E.F.I, canteen is below this club. NATHANYA. Accommodation is available. CHURCH ARMY HUT. Occupies an open high situation just outside the SALVATION ARMY HOSTEL, Kingsway, gates of the Convalescent Depot. Facilities include refreshment room, writing and games room, and a This hostel provides a restaurant, and reading and chapel. writing rooms. HIBBERT HOUSE. Accommodation is available. A hostel on the coast at the sea side resort of SOLDIERS RECREATION CANTEEN, Jaffa Rd. Nathanya. Restaurant, reading and writing rooms and games rooms. Accommodation available, Canteen and club room, with an outdoor tea garden. including married couples. Hot and cold showers are available. Light refreshments only. . NAZARETH. TAJ MAHAL CLUB, Jaffa Rd. N.A.A.F.I./E.F.I. CANTEEN, This canteen serves hot meals and light This club for Indian soldiers is situated near 163 Transit refreshments. Camp. The dub is attractively decorated with facilities for hot meals, light refreshments and cool drinks. There is also TIBERI AS. a garden. ST. ANDREW'S THREE SERVICES CLUB AND HOSTEL. Y.W.C.A., Jaffa Road, Restaurant, rest room, writing room and games room. Accommodation available. This hostel is open to all ranks of the Womens Services. Restaurant, reading and writing rooms. It is almost HAIFA HOTELS. opposite the Soldier's Recreation Canteen. If you desire to stay at an hotel instead of a hostel, go Accommodation is available, including married couples. to the Forces Information Bureau where a list of approved Hotels is available. It is a historical fact THE PALESTINE (1 !I that the firm S. FRIEDMANN & SONS 'CARMEL ORIGINALg is a well-known old-established firm (Since 1889) in Palestine and that YOUR DAILY GUIDE AND INDEX amongst their renowned products one TO WORLD EVENTS of the most outstanding is their - CARMEL CREST DRY GIN 27 SYRKZN ST. . HAIFA .TEL. 3087.

YOU WILL FIND ALL JACOB ETKES E. E, KINDS OF BOOKS AT Preserves of choice fruit and vegetables gathered in own orchards and gardens are Radio and Electric prepared in the factories of the three co- Equipmenf~ operative agricultural settlemenh Ashdoth all kinds of works Yaacov, Givat Haim and Givat Brenner. RINGART'S - and repairs Situated in three historic regions - the /or- don Valley. Samaria and Judea - the fac- Cinema Mrdthiner and t6ries bear Biblical Names which are now BOOKSHOP ~ervice associated uith the latest methods of fruit preservation, canning and the manufacture of HAIFA Citrus-concentrates. 41 JAFFA ROAD I Branches: Hadar Hacarmel New Business Centre ESHED - GAT RlMON and Mount Carmel opp. Holland Bank - 'Phone 4048 P.O.B. 42 PHONE 4071 Office: 25, Rothschild Blvd., Tel-Aviv. P.0.B.1092 Phone 2223 the Romans, the Moslems, the Egyptians and the Turks, and, nearer to our own day, the French and Allenby's men in the Great War. "THE TIDE OF BATTLE FLOWED." The position at the dawn of history, which is con- I firmed by Archaeology if not by written record, showed the An outline of the history of Northefin Pdestine. Eastern horn of the Fertile Crescent to be inhabited by a I1 NON-SEMITIC people, the Sumerians, whose capital was The relief map of Palestine shows our Northern Area in Southern Iraq. The Western horn of the crescent was to have prominent lowland features in the shape of a distort- peopled also by NON-SEMJTIC tribes, whose skeletons, dat- ed 'H'. The western limb contains the coastal strip from ing back to 10,000 BC. have been found in the caves on Acre to Caesarea; the Eastern the Jordan Valley from Baneas the south western slopes of the Carmel range a few miles to Samak: the cross piece the Valley of Esdraelon from Beisan SE. of ATHLIT. More or less simultaneously both horns of to Zirin and the Valley of the Jezreel from Zirin to Haifa . 1 the crescent were invaded from the deserts of Arabia by Bay. This, one might imagine to be the initial of History I SEMITIC peoples known as the AKKADIANS on the east stamped upon area; the valleys and the trade routes through and the AMORITES on the west, somewhere about 3,000 which the successive tides of battle have flowed. 1 BC. At that period there were two established peoples on The tides have been those that have flowed backwards the western horn, the.PHOENICIANS around TYRE and I SIDON, and the CANAANITES in our own area; and on and fomrds through the Fertile Crescent, that arc of rich I land that runs North along the coast of Palestine and Syria, the eastern horn the CHALDEANS, under their great king SARGON. It was about this time that the recorded history curves away East through Aleppo and turns South into the I valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates in Iraq, to come out to of Palestine begins. the sea at the Persian Gulf. This strip of land has been The land of SHECHEM, as Palestine was then known. called the cradle of history and our 'H' shaped valleys are was invaded by a nomadic semitic race, the HABIRI, or the channels through which it's history has affected Pales- HEBREWS, who took over the existing civilizations and tine. settled down in the walled towns of the CANAANInS. The flow has been commanded by several important The early history of Palestine is the story of the resistance : of the HEBREWS to successive invaders attempting ta secure places in our area, which, as it were, bear the successive tide marks. Acre commands the northern entrance of the the trade routes of our letter 'H'. Later invasions of the western route; Caesarea the southern: Banias the northern same Hebrew peoples, about 1,200 BC, led by MOSES from Egypt, where they had been held as slaves, did not take so entrance of the eastern route; Beisan the southern: whilst 3 across the centre lies Meggiddo and the Carmel range. kindly to the city culture of the established tribes and so a Southwards on the central route to Jemsalem lies the an- division grew up between northern and southern Palestine cient fortress of Sabastiya, near Nablus, dominating the way. which later developed into the struggle between in These 'rocks' have impeded the flow of the tides of invasion from north, south east, and west: the invasions of the Su- Wolfschmidt's KUMMEL

merians, the Jews, the Assyrians, the Persians, the Greeks, -- - -- the north and JUDAH in the south. The excavations at the to return to Palestine. Under their king, ZERRUBBABEL, ancient BETH SHEAN, or BEISAN, as it is now called, they rebuilt Jerusalem and began the second Temple, com- show the tide mark of the history of this period. pleting it in 566 BC. They remained, however, a vassai Meanwhile in the eastern horn of the Fertile Crescent state to the great Persian Empire for about a century. CHALDEA had fallen to ASSYRIA, the new power, which This time the tide of invasion came from the sea on by 1,000 BC was in command of the whole of the Middle the west, for the Persian Empire, under DARIUS and East except Syria and Egypt. It was the combined struggle XiERXES received the first blow in it's dissolution from of these two countries against Assyria that allowed the two the GREEKS at the battKs of SALAMIS and PLATAEA in little states of Israel and Judah to carry on unmolested and 480 and 479 BC. From this time forward we see the be- fight out their own insignificant wars. MEGGIDDO, Solo- ginnings of Hellenization throughout the Middle East, a mon's city, where the remains of his famous stables are still period which was to last well into the Christian Era. to be seen, shows the tide mark of this wave of history. ALEXANDER THE GREAT conquered Palestine in 332 BC But by 750 BC the Assyrians had become sufficiently and Persian domination ceased. After his death the Alexan- powerful to subdue the tribes in Syria, which were defeated drian Empire fell to two branches of his successors, the by the greatest of Assyrian monarchs, TIGLATH PILESER SELEUCIDS and the PTOLEMIES, who warred so frequent- 111. In his progress against Egypt he naturally threatened ly that the city of Jerusalem changed hands no less than Isrzl, our area, and the little state resisted. SABASTIYA seven times within a cenhry after the death of Alexander, until the conflict was finally ended by the victory of the (Sarnaria) was captured in 722 BC. and Tiglath Pileser's Seleucids in 198 BC. successor, ESARHADDON, captured Judah and it's capital Historically this period is one of great confusion; but JERUSALEM in 681 BC. The people of Israel were taken all the time the proces's of Hellenization was going on. into captivity, and whilst they were there the power of Assyria came to an end. Cities began to be built on Greek models, fashions in clothes became Hellenic, and a cultured and leisured class Once again from the highlands of the east a stronger began to grow up amongst the Jews which became the and wilder people poured into the fertile valleys of the SADDUCCEES and opposed the more religious and tradi- Tigris and the hphrates, and by 812 BC., when NINEVEH, tional PHARISEES. However, the minor wars and quarrels the capital of Assyria fell, the SCYTHIANS and the HIT- between these factions were sunk in the common cause when TITES began to form the BABYLONIAN empire. Palestine the Seleucid rulers attempted to force still more Helleniz- meanwhile wak gradually rebuilding itself after the ravages ation on the Jews. ANTIOCHUS IV carried his Helleniz- of Assyria, and, to preserve peace, became vassal to Babylon. ation to the extent of desecrating the Temple, and the MAC- Although the Assyrians had not enslaved the people of CABEES replied to this by revolting successfully, capturing Judah, the Babylonians under NEBUCHADNEZZAR even. the Temple and purifying it. It is in celebration of this tually attacked them, and in 588 BC Jeru'salem was taken, the temple destroyed and the 'Captivity' proper began for victory that the modern Jews observe the Feast of HAN- the Jews. - -- But the tide turned again with this captivity and Ba- Wolfschmidt's DISTILLED DRY GIN bylon fell before a new power, PERSIA, and the Jews began ------NUKAH, or "The Candles", about our own Christmas time. CRUSADES, it has remained so until this day. The ROMAN EMPIRE had meanwhile been gradually ?;he First Crusade set out in 1069 AD dth 'the in- building up in the Mediterranean, and it's influence was tention of wresting Jerusalem from the SELJUK TURKS, extending to Palestine, so that the revival of Jewish Na- who had captured it from the original Arabs. This Crusade tionalism under the Maccabees lasted only a short time. entered from the north down the coastal strip, through what Between 69 BC and 40 BC, JULIUS CAESAR, POMPEY is now HAIFA, to RAMLEH. In 1099 AD it was successfyl and ANTONY reduced Palestine to a province of the Roman in taking Jerusalem and a Christian Kingdom was set up Empire and set up HEROD THE GREAT as ruler. Herod which lasted until 1187 AD, when the great SARACEN was a great Hellenizer and rebuilt the cities of SAMARIA leader, SALADIN, after yet another battle near Beisan, and CAESAREA in splendid Hellenic fashion. This w'as threw the Christians out of Jerusalem. the great period of the DECAPOLIS, the ten great Helleniz- The best known Crusade, the Third, was that in whi& ed cities which formed the boundaries of the Roman Empire C RICHARD COEUR de LION took part, and of which the in the Middle East. SCYTHOPOLIS the capital was near books of 'Ivanhoe' and 'The Talisman' were written, The Beisan, yet another tidemark of history there, whilst first campaign was to lay siege to ACRE in 1189. ACRE JERASH, in the TRANSJORDAN, preserves still, perhaps, fell in 1191 AD; but the Crusade did not succeed in re- some of their ancient grandeur. This continual forcing of capturing Jerusalem, so that the Christian Kingdom confined to the coastal strip, where MONTFORT CASTLE,- Hellenization on the Jews led to still further revolts after the Christian era had begun, the first of which was put ACRE and ATHLIT were fortified with the Crusader down by TITUS in 70 AD., and the second by HADRIAN castles whose ruins we can see to-day. The Egyptian Sultans in 132 AD; this time with such fury that it marked the finally overthrew this Kingdom by the capture of ACRE in final attempt in ancient times of the Jews to preserve a 1291 AD and once again, until the FRENCH invasion, nation of their own in Palestine. On the partition of the Palestine passed into the hands of the EGYPTIANS and the Roman Empire in 395 AD., Palestine passed under the con- TURKS. trol of BYZANTIUM (Constantinople) and remained com- The FRENCH period begins in 1798, when NAPOLE- paratively peaceful until the coming of the MOSLEM ERA. ON invaded Egypt. The Turks organised against him atld This era dates from the exile of the prophet MOHAM- he therefore pushed north to attack, occupying the coastal MED in 622 AD, and by 633 AD ISLAM was in power strip and HAIFA, which by this time had begun to develop into a little town, and proceeded to lay siege to ACRE. throughout Arabia. ABU BAKU, the first Caliph, proceeded i.i to attack Palestine and Syria, and gained a decisive victory But, as so often before, this fortified town proved a at a battle on the YARMUK river, so that the valley of stumbling block, and with the assistance of the BRITISH Esdraelon once again became the gap through which a tide 1 under SIR SYDNEY SMITH, the siege was raised and in of invasion poured. The Moslem army spread rapidly through 1799 Napoleon retired from Palestine, to leave it to the Palestine and by 640 AD, when OMAR, the second Caliph TURKISH domination which remained until the BRITISH built the wooden mosque, whose place is now taken by the under ALLENBY defeated the TURKS in 1918 and Pales Mosque of Omar in the old city at Jerusalem, Palestine had -- become a Moslem land. With the brief exception of the Wolfschmidt's CURACAO --

- 33 - tine passed under BRITISH MANDATE. Northern Area as we know it to-day, centred on the town of HAIFA, emerges about the end of the last cen- tury, when GERMAN interest in the Middle East was grow- THE HISTORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE tng. One of the results of Napoleon's siege of ACRE was PALESTINE RAILWAYS. \ to drive some of the prominent merchants to the safety of HAIFA, where, about 1760, an Arab chieftain, SHEIK TAHER, had built a breakwater, the remains of which are There was no railway in Palestine until 52 years ago. at the base of the modern one where it meets the land near It was in 1889 that a French Company obtained a concession the Government Hospital at RAS EL KRUM. A little town, from the Ottoman Empire to built a metre gauge line of once known as SYCANIUM, had grown up here, and with 87 kilometres fram Jaffa to Jerusalem. The material for this the revictualling station set up by the Sheik, HAIFA began line was brought from Panama after the failure of Ferdi- to take shape, gradually extending inland. About 1870 it's nand de Lesseps to build a canal there. The line was com- growth was accelerated by the immigration of GERMANS pleted in 1892 and was operated until taken over by the who founded the district of HAIFA still known as the Turks during the last war. GERMAN COLONY. The Haifa-Damascus railway was The next development a railway from Haifa to opened to link with the Berlin-Bagdad system in 1899 and Damascus. An English. Company obtained a concession in with it modern Haifa really began. HADAR HACARMEL 1891 but abandoned it owing to financial and political dif- developed just before the beginning of the last war, the ficulties. Ten years later the Sultan of Turkey conceived HEBREW TECHNICAL INSTITUTE being built in 1913. the idea of a railway- from Damascus to Medina for pil- Jewish immigration and enterprise further developed the grims going to Mecca. A French Company was already town during the period between the wars, and with the operating a railway, but, as they refused to sell out, the opening of the refineries, the harbour and the Kingsway Turkish Government built another railway parallel to it from shortly before this war, the present commercial possibilities Damwxs to Deraa. This railway was built to the unusual of Haifa arose. gauge of 105 centimetres. By 1905 the Turkish Government Looking back, therefore, Palestine has always tended to extended this pilgrim railway from Haifa eastwards via be the battle ground of interests in the Middle East. Because Affuleh, Beisan, Samakh, Mzerib and Deraa where it linked of it's geographical configuration the northern area has up with their own from Damascus. The main railway rea- perhaps seen more than it's fair share of the fighting. It ched Medina in 1909 and is that (which is now known as the may be that the present day confusions are but another Hijaz Railbay, patt of which is operated by the Palestine reflection of the history of ancient times, when the interests I Cdvernment and part by Syria. This railway was constructed of East and West clashed in this land. But by bearing in by German engineers, and it is certain 'that the Germans had mind the key places mentioned and seeing the evidences of these struggles in the past, it is possible to travel through Palestine, and in particular our own area, and to view it Wolfschmidt's LIQUEUR DU DOME against it's wider background and so keep a level head. in mind its possibilities for military prposes. Lawrence of Arabia played a great part in rendering the railway useless from Kmtara to Raffah in Sinai, is still owned by His and anyone interested w~llbe well repaid in reading about Majesty's Government, on whose behalf it is operated by his wrecking activities in his "Seven Pillars of Wisdom". the Palestine Government. 15s wrecking was so successful that the railway has never The Standard Gauge railway was extended to Haifa been re-opened south of Maan in Trans-jordan. after the Turkish collapse, and during this war has been comeded up with the new railway to Beirut and Tripoli When the Turkish army advanced through Palestine and in Syria. the Sinai Desert in their attack on the Suez Canal, their line ffom Damascus was extended to Lydda by way of The railway came under civil control in 1920, and, Mysudieh, Sebastia, Nablus and Tulkarm. From Lydda the except for certain relatively minor changes and improve- lipe was continued southwards through the valley of Sork ments, and the lifting of the railmy to Beersheba, the from whence it divided, one branch running to Deir Suneid railway is much the same as at the end of the last war. The and the other to Beersheba and El Aujah, the whole exten- locomotives and rolling stock are mostly those which were sion being completed by 1916. taken over from the Army at the end of the last war. Many of the coaches were brought to the Middle East for service At the beginning of 1916 the British Forces began as ambulance trains with Allenby's army and had already- advancing across Sinai from the Suez Canal. To supply seen service on the Southern and Midland railways in ~~EIII, a standard gauge (4'8E") railway starting at Kan- England. tam was built behind the advancing army. Connection with Ever since the outbreak of the present world war, the the Eaptian State railways was by rqeans of a bridge across Palestine railways have been one of the principal lines of the Canal. This bridge was taken down at the end of the cornmunic#ion in the Middle East theatre of operations. last war and another bridge has had toi be built for a similar The demands made on the railway by the Services, parti- purpose during the present war. cularly during the difficult days of El Alamein, have been By January 1917, the railway had been pushed through considerable, yet in no instance has the railway failed to tb Ei Arish and thence to Rafah, the border station between achieve all asked of it during the war. While the full ex- Palestine and Egypt, by June 1917. tent of the railway's war effort cannot be detailed in this In February 1918 the line reached Lydda. Communicat- brief article, the following figures provide an indication of ion with laffa, interrupted by the Turkish army having the considerable increase in traffic which has taken place dismantled the line in 1916, was resumed by means of a since 1938. The details are based on average and exclude db un. gauge light tramway. The old French section Lydda peaks which occurred during individual emergency periods. to Jerusalem was widened from metre gauge to Standard During 1939 the number of passengers conveyed amounted Gauge to permit trains to run without change from Egypt to 620,000. During 1943 the figure was 2,200,000, an in- to Jerusalem. The railway thus constmcted by Allenby for crease of over one and a half million. In 1943, 2,600,000 supplying his victorious armies, still remains, and it is over the same rails and along the same route that many thousands of troops have been conveyed during this war. The section Wol fschmidt's BRANDY -- tons of goods traffic were conveyed, compared with 825,000 tons in 1938. The increase in the engine mileage run is equally striking; 2,025,000 in 1938 and 4,750,000 in 1943. The Railways' war effort has included assistance to the Military in other directions. In addition to constructed buildings and sidings on military account, it has embraced 1 the manufacture and supply of a host of articles urgently needed by the Forces and which could not be obtained when ARMY GARRISON required from other sources. CLUB 'PHONE 3235 I BALFoUR ST. I HAIFA I UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE JEWISH HOSPITALITY COMMITTEE, 1 EXCURSIONS ql LEAVE ARRANGEMENTS 91 TEA PARTIES I (II CONCERTS ql DANCES READING AND GAMES ROOMS RESTAURANT ALL MEMBERS OF H. M. FORCES ARE WELCOME!

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