Gur Alroey

Associate professor at the department of Israel Studies at the University of Haifa. He published five books on Jewish migration in the late 19^th century and early 20^th century and on the Territorial ideology ; he also published many articles in the leading journal of the field dealing with various aspects of his research interests. His newest book: An Unpromising Land: The Jewish Migration to Palestine in the Early Twentieth Century, Stanford University Press, 2014.

The Expulsion of the Jews from Tel Aviv-Jaffa to the Lower Galilee, 1917-1918 Gur Alroey · September 2016 Before the advance of the British troops in Palestine, the Ottoman military governor, Jamal Pasha, ordered in March 1917 the evacuation of residents of Tel Aviv and Jaffa. The Jewish population were scattered mainly in Galilee, where hundreds of deportees died of disease and hunger. All (...)