Mandatory Palestine Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Education== Under the British Mandate, the country developed economically and culturally. In 1919, the Jewish community founded a centralised Hebrew school system, and the following year established the [[Assembly of Representatives (Mandate Palestine)|Assembly of Representatives]], the [[Jewish National Council]] and the [[Histadrut]] labour federation. The [[Technion]] university was founded in 1924, and the [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]] in 1925.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/jews_mandate.html|title=The Jewish Community Under the Palestine Mandate|website=www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org}}</ref> There were several attempts by the Arab Palestinians to establish an Arab higher education institution, starting from the 1920s, but it did not materialise. Israeli historian [[Ilan Pappé]] attributed this to "Zionist pressure, British anti-Arab racism, and lack of resources." He added that "the colonial mentality of the British authorities who deemed the Palestinians yet another colonized people who had to be oppressed, while regarding the Zionist settlers as fellow colonialists, feared that such a university would enhance the Palestinian national movement."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.palestine-studies.org/sites/default/files/jq-articles/Why%20Only%20a%20Hebrew%20University.pdf|title=Why Only a Hebrew University? The Tale of the Arab University in Mandatory Jerusalem|work=Jerusalem Quarterly|accessdate=16 April 2023|year=2023|publisher=Institute for Palestine Studies}}</ref> Literacy rates in 1932 were 86% for the Jews compared to 22% for the Palestinian Arabs, but Arab literacy rates steadily increased thereafter. By comparison, Palestinian Arab literacy rates were higher than those of Egypt and Turkey, but lower than in Lebanon.{{sfn|Khalidi|2006|pp=14, 24}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page