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People's Administration), all of its members being drawn from Moetzet HaAm (People's Council), the temporary legislative body set up at the same time. On 14 May 1948—the day the last British forces left Haifa—the People's Council gathered at the Tel Aviv Museum and proclaimed the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz Israel to serve as ...
David Lammy, the foreign secretary, said his thoughts were also with those still waiting to be reunited with their loved ones, including the families of UK-linked hostages Eli Sharabi, Oded ...
The British Colonial Secretary and the High Commissioner had given assurances that the relief convoys would be given British protection. [9] The Red Cross had offered to put Mount Scopus under its flag on condition that the area be demilitarized, but the Hadassah leaders declined the proposal, [ 6 ] though a plan was prepared for an eventual ...
The British Mandate expired on 14 May 1948, and the State of Israel declared its independence. [17] Transjordan , Egypt , Syria and Iraq intervened by sending expeditionary forces that entered former Mandatory Palestine and engaged Israeli forces.
On Tuesday, British teenager Yahel Sharabi, 13, was confirmed as one of those murdered during Hamas’s attack. She died along with her mother, Lianne, while her elder sister, Noiya, 16, and ...
The state of Israel was nevertheless founded under prime minister David Ben-Gurion on 14 May 1948 with the end of the British Mandate, winning immediate recognition from the US and Soviet Union ...
The Sergeants affair (Hebrew: פרשת הסרג'נטים) was an incident that took place in July 1947 during Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine, in which the Jewish underground group Irgun kidnapped two British Army Intelligence Corps NCOs, Sergeant Clifford Martin and Sergeant Mervyn Paice, and threatened to hang them if the death sentences passed on three Irgun militants—Avshalom ...
Full coverage: Israel-Hamas conflict. Dozens of people in Israel have been killed, according to a spokesperson for the country's emergency services, and nearly 200 people were killed in Gaza after ...