From left: General Allenby, Lord Balfour, Sir Herbert Samuel, Jerusalem, 1925 (b/w photo)

Edmund Allenby (1861-1936) British soldier who led the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in the conquest of Palestine and Syria 1917-18; He captured Jerusalem from the Ottomans in December 1917; Arthur Balfour (1848-1930) British Conservative politician, supporter of Zionism, responsible for the Balfour Declaration of 1917, in which Britain supported the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine; Herbert Samuel (1870-1963) British politician and diplomat, and committed Zionist; Served as High Commissioner of Palestine 1920-25; British Mandate in Palestine (1920-48);