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In December 1952, upon the death of Israel's first President, the government offered Einstein the position. Einstein turned them down, citing his old age and political inexperience. What if he had taken the (largely ceremonial) role? Israel's OTL second president was in power from 1952 to 1963...

Recently Haaretz published a declasified report of the IDF with plans of a new invasion of Lebanon in 1982 to expell the PLO like in 1978. It was ultimately decided that given the political chaos of the Lebanese civil war it would've been like a new Vietnam. What would've happened if Israel had...

how would a more successful second lebanese war where the IDF damages, yet dosen't destroy hezbollah affect lebanese politics and the syrian civil war? its for a TL im writing where yoni netanyahu survives antebe and becomes the prime minister of israel

Eisenhower threatened the 3 invading nations(France, UK, Isreal) with economic sanctions and persuaded the British and French to withdraw. Isreal also withdrew a bit later. I believe that the French would the have continued the operation had the British not called it quits and didn't feel...

After seeing a thread about the lack of good Ancient Near East TLs on the forums, I revived a TL that I made last year about an alternate Iron Age. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On an early morning in 874 BC a...

What do you it would have happened if Joseph Stalin had simply recognised Israel in 1948 rather than spinning off former german East Prussia as "The People's Republic Of Judea"? How much would the history of the Cold War in the Middle East and Europe be different in this situation?

So I saw this flag by Marc Pasquin based on this one by gruff.jones, and it got me thinking, who the hell would become the monarch of Israel? So I looked for members of Jewish peerage, and I found the Rothschilds, one of the most powerful families in the world, who are also practicing Jews and...

What if Yitzhak Rabin wasn't assassinated in 1995? How would things be different?

Okay, this is a bit of an odd one, but would it be possible, like in the early 2000s or what to readjust the boundaries for Israel/Palestine? I imagine it'd be really freaking difficult to achieve this, but let's say the US was led by someone who okay with the border readjustments to be fairer...

Say, for the sake of argument, the Faisal-Weizmann Agreement (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faisal%E2%80%93Weizmann_Agreement) went a bit differently, and the Knesset voted to elect Faisal of Iraq and Syria to be King of Israel. How would this work? Could an Austro-Hungarian-style dual monarchy...

The Zionist movement lead to an increase in Jewish immigration to Palestine beginning in the late 1800s. How plausible is it that Arab could have been chosen as lingua franca? The original Zionist movement was not particularly religious. An argument for choosing Arab as their language would be...

As the title says, what happens if the Soviets decided to make a Jewish SSR in Central Asia with an idea similar to Jewish Autonomous Oblast, a Soviet Socialist Republic for Jews? Where exactly in Central Asia you reckoned the Jewish SSR will be placed in? Will this Jewish SSR break-away from...

With a POD of no earlier than 1917 (right after Britain signs the Balfour Declaration, signifying a desire to create a Jewish state in Palestine) how plausible would it be for a TL to take place where WW2 never happens and Israel also exists? Obviously in this No WW2 timeline there is no...

In the late 70's and early 80's, through say 1984, post Camp David accords, how possible would it be for another Arab-Israeli war to occur? If so, what might trigger it? Just as important for my timeline is how likely various nations, especially the USA, Israel, and the USSR would think it is...

Let's say the Israelis interpret Nasser's movement of troops to the Sinai more rationally as a show to the other Arab leaders. As a result, there is no 1967 war. Jordan, Egypt and Syria retain the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights respectively. What are the results of this?

Is there any possibility that Israel could have forged an alliance with Iran in the 1980s? True, Iranian rhetoric was strongly anti-Israel, but they did have an enemy in common - Iraq. My thinking is that Israel quietly approaches Iran, offering military assistance in the Iran-Iraq war in...

Suppose Isser Harel had successfully nabbed Josef Mengele along with Adolf Eichmann, and so the "Angel of Death" was also put on trial (whether they'd be tried separately or together, I'm not sure). There's no doubt in my mind that Mengele would also be found guilty and executed. But what kind...

Challenge: have Israel/Palestine be Balkanized between Arabs and Jews, Monarchists and Republicans, and secularism and theocratic

EDIT: This Timeline is now available in book form (with added segments) on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B72Q3VCC Hey all, never made a TL before, hope this goes over decently enough. Obviously, don't consider any of the statements in the extracts here to neccessarily be similar to my...