Why and when successful rural malaria control became a local problem – Palestine 1922

Recent events, i.e., the demise of USAID, recognition of a State of Palestine, and the massacre of 7th October 2023 by Hamas, have seemingly come together to remind of the obstacles the Zionists had to overcome in Palestine more than 100 years ago when launching the start of the first sustainable rural malaria control programme. Here, I examine how the Zionists dealt with situations of a similar nature to these events all that time ago.