Hidden in a 74-Year-Old Newsreel: The Foundations of What Would Be the State of Israel

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Hidden in a 74-Year-Old Newsreel: 

The Foundations of What Would Be 

the State of Israel

Posted: 22 Apr 2014

The Jewish version of a "barn-raising" in what appears to be a new settlement 

in the Jezreel Valley (British Pathé newsreels, 1940)

In our last posting we introduced readers to the latest archive released online -- British Pathé -- with its 85,000 newsreels uploaded to YouTube in April 2014.

Historians will have a field day.

This Israel Daily Picture site presents early photographs and films and ends its research at the 1940 point.

The British Pathé films include many films on the struggle to bring Jews into Palestine in the 1940s and the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

We were intrigued by one 8-minute silent film entitled Peasant Farmer Plugs Field With Bullocks, 1940.

The film open with an Arab peasant tilling his field with a primitive plow. But after that 10-second segment the films shows Jewish settlers building a new community in the Galilee, Jewish farmers plowing and irrigating their fields, a street scene in what appears to be Tel Aviv, Jews praying at the Western Wall, doctors and students on Mt. Scopus' Hadassah Hospital and Hebrew University. There are also segments showing the Arab shuk and the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount.

We invite readers to identify the location of the "barn raising" photo above and to "plow" through other films to find noteworthy scenes.

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Peasant Farmer Plugs Field With Bullocks (1940)

Does Psalm 83 Predict an Imminent War? - Jerusaelm Dateline, Chris Mitchell (CBN News)

Jerusalem Dateline

Chris Mitchell

CBN News 

Middle East Bureau Chief

Does Psalm 83 Predict an Imminent War?

Bill Salus is the author of Psalm 83: The Missing Prophecy Revealed. He believes Psalm 83 predicts a "climatic Arab-Israeli war" in the not too distant future.

We talked recently with Salus about his insight into the ancient psalm by Asaph and what it might mean for Israel today.

Bill Salus

Chris Mitchell and Bill Salus

Here's Psalm 83 in its entirety:

Psalm 83

1 Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, And do not be still, O God!

2 For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; And those who hate You have lifted up their head.

3 They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones.

4 They have said, "Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more."

5 For they have consulted together with one consent; They form a confederacy against You:

6 The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab and the Hagrites;

7 Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

8 Assyria also has joined with them; They have helped the children of Lot. Selah

9 Deal with them as with Midian, As with Sisera, As with Jabin at the Brook Kishon,

10 Who perished at En Dor, Who became as refuse on the earth.

11 Make their nobles like Oreb and like Zeeb, Yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

12 Who said, "Let us take for ourselves The pastures of God for a possession."

13 O my God, make them like the whirling dust, Like the chaff before the wind!

14 As the fire burns the woods, And as the flame sets the mountains on fire,

15 So pursue them with Your tempest, And frighten them with Your storm.

16 Fill their faces with shame, That they may seek Your name, O Lord.

17 Let them be confounded and dismayed forever; Yes, let them be put to shame and perish,

18 That they may know that You, whose name alone is the Lord, Are the Most High over all the earth.

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