History Lecture Series

Raymond Cannon is a retired English international commercial lawyer with a selective but obsessive interest in history and historical personalities. Raymond and his wife, Jeanette, made Aliyah in 2002.

The establishment of the State of Israel was inextricably bound up and, to a large extent, influenced by the events surrounding the First and Second World Wars. Perhaps, even more significantly, it was affected by the domestic political situations of the Western powers – principally the United States and Great Britain.

In a series of 3 lectures, Raymond will endeavor to link these broad themes, primarily by identifying the decision makers and key personalities who were most influential: Presidents Franklyn. D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman, General George C. Marshall, Prime Minister Clement Attlee and Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, King Saud of Saudi Arabia plus a host of lesser known officials, whose input was of crucial significance in determining their governments' policies.

10.30am Thursday 7 October:

Palestine: for Arabs or Jews or both?

10.30am Thursday 21 October:

FDR's Problematic Legacy

Thursday 4 November:

Harry Truman's Buck Stopped Where?

Cost: Pre paid three lecture series

Members: NIS 75 Non members: NIS 90

Individual lectures at door:

Members: NIS 30 Non members: NIS 40