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Transliteration from Arabic and Hebrew into English, First edition of this booklet issued by the Palestine Government providing the official spelling in Arabic, Hebrew, and English of more than 1,100 localities in Mandatory Palestine. This copy was in the library of the Department of Health, Jerusalem, which was responsible for environment sanitation, vaccine inoculation, and public health in Palestine.This was the second official publication on Palestinian place names for use in government correspondence, maps, road signs, and postal and telegraph services, following the first list of 1925. In this edition, however, the Department of Education simply adopted the Arabic names for Hebrew, transliterating them from Arabic into Hebrew. This practice contrasted with that of the 1925 list, which replaced more than one-third of the Arabic place names with Hebrew names derived from the Bible and other ancient Jewish sources. These changes, such as the use of Nablus instead of Shekhem and Nazareth instead of En-Nasira, had major socio-political implications. The Zionist leadership sent a strongly worded protest to the Mandatory government against "the transparent attempt and the clear trend of the British to Arabize place names in Palestine" (Katz, pp. 106–8).Like all other topographical glossaries issued during the British Mandate, place-name transliteration was based on the conventions of the Royal Geographical Society (R.G.S.II), with slight revisions specially approved for Palest

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