The Turks are no longer
Ruling
A view of Eretz Israel in the days of World War
I
World War I is a dark chapter in the history of
Eretz Israel, a period when people were famished, expelled from
their homes, becoming pawns dominated by the conflict between the
super-powers.
The exhibit sheds light from several angles, often contrary, on the
reality of those days through numerous visual images: photographs,
postcards and paintings, rare philatilical items, press clippings,
posters, objects and films.
These items build a picture of the main chapters in the war which
brought about the end of the Ottoman era in Eretz Israel.
The organization of the Turkish army and mobilization of members of
the Yishuv, nullifying the methods of capitulation and postal
services during the war, life on the home front and coping
with hunger, natural disasters, expulsion from and within the
country, the expulsion of all the Tel Aviv inhabitants, the
founding of the Hebrew Battalions, the Nili underground, the
British forces and their partners, the Balfour Declaration, and the
entrance of General Allenby to Jerusalem at the end of the war. 
Passages from two personal diaries that
document events from the home front during the war in chronological
order and in real time, through eyes of the writers, accompany the
exhibit throughout. The writers were Mordechai Ben-Hillel (in his
book War of the Nations), and Khalil al-Sakakini (in his book This
is How I am, Gentlemen). The first is a public figure, writer
and businessman, one of the founders of Tel Aviv, and the latter -
a Christian Arab writer and educator who hid a Jewish acquaintance
who had escaped from the Turkish police in his home.
Curator: Sara Turel
Opens: October 14, 2007
Closes: May 20, 2008