Lawrence of Arabia (R.I.P., Peter O’Toole)

Lawrence of Arabia helped to arrange what agreement that benefited the Jews of Palestine in 1918?

AHe wrote a letter in support of the Balfour Declaration, calling for the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine.

BHe convinced Abdullah I of Transjordan to lower the tolls on the Allenby Bridge.

CHe convinced British authorities who governed Egypt to allow Solomon Schechter to bring ancient artifacts found in the Cairo Genizah to Palestine for study and display by Jewish scholars.

DBecause a plague of dever (pestilence) destroyed the cow population in the Middle East, he established a kosher camel farm in Cairo to supply meat to the Jewish communities in Palestine.

EHe served as a go-between and interpreter at a meeting between Emir Feisal (who represented the Arab world at the Post World War I Paris Peace Conference) and Chaim Weizmann, calling for peaceful coexistence in Palestine.

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