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Snow in Jerusalem -- Pictures We Presented in Winters Past Posted: 12 Dec 2013 12:34 AM PST Jerusalem under blanket of snow. View from the Christian Quarter showing the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Mosque of Omar on the Temple Mount and Mt. of Olives. (circa 1900) Strong rain, winds and snow storms are hitting the Middle East this week.  And snow is falling today in Jerusalem, the Golan and parts of the Galilee.  British soldiers at the Western Wall (1921) We present here old pictures of snow in Jerusalem from the Library of Congress collection.    Children of the "American Colony" (1921). These pictures were hand-colored and found in a Colony family album. Children of the "American Colony" playing in the snow (1921)  "Snow-balling" on Jaffa Road in Jerusalem (1942)  Australian soldiers and Arabs "snow-balling" (1942)

On this Day, December 11, Gen. Edmund Allenby Entered Jerusalem after the British Rout of the Turkish-German Army in 1917. Re-posting an earlier feature Posted: 11 Dec 2013  Allenby entering Jerusalem December 11, 1917 Photographers accompanied the Imperial British Army forces throughout the battles of World War I in Palestine, starting at the Suez Canal in 1915 and continuing through the capture of Damascus in 1918.    Turkish Camel Corps in Be'er Sheva (1917, Library of Congress archives) The grand scale of the fighting in Palestine is not fully recognized today even by historians, with attention often focused on the European front.  One statistic may put the fighting into perspective: The British army suffered more than half a million casualties; the Turks even more. The Israel Daily Picture site has presented hundreds of pictures of the fighting between the British Imperial Forces and the Turkish and German forces on the battlefields of Sinai, Gaza, Be'er Sheva, and Jerusalem. Most of the photographs, such as those on this page, were found in the U.S. Library of Congress' American Colony collection. Click on a picture to enlarge.  Click on the caption to view  the original picture.  Austrian army troops approaches Jerusalem's Jaffa Gate (1916) Turkish troops preparing to attack the Suez Canal 1915 We present below a film from the British Imperial War Museum of British Commander Edmund Allenby's entrance into Jerusalem on December 11, 1917.    General Allenby walking through the Jaffa Gate into the Old City of Jerusalem.  Click HERE to view the video According to the Imperial War Museum synopsis accompanying the film: The General entered Jerusalem on 11 December, accompanied by his staff (T. E. Lawrence ["Lawrence of Arabia"] among them), French and Italian officers, and various other international representatives. At the Jaffa gate he was greeted by a guard of Commonwealth and Allied troops; dismounting, he and his comrades entered the city on foot, as instructed. Allenby had been less than fifteen minutes in the city. After 400 years of Ottoman rule, Jerusalem had passed into British hands..

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