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] Sir Alexander Knox Helm was the first British Chargé d'Affaires in Israel, whose rank was later raised to Minister, serving from 1949 to 1951. He was succeeded in 1951 by Francis Evans, whose rank was raised to Ambassador in 1952. The British embassy in Israel is located in Tel Aviv, not Jerusalem, which Israel has declared as its capital.
Edward Wheler Bird (1823–1903), Anglo-Indian judge and British-Israel author; Edward Hine (1825–1891), artist, historian, author of Forty-Seven Identifications of the British Nation with the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel; John Cox Gawler (1830–1882) was a Keeper of the Jewel House and a British Israelite author
In 1948, following the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine, the Israeli Declaration of Independence sparked the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, which resulted in the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight from the land that the State of Israel came to control and subsequently led to waves of Jewish immigration from other parts of the Middle East.
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 State of Israel was founded eight hours before the termination of the British Mandate for Palestine, which was due to finish on 15 May 1948. Independence Day, 1978 The operative paragraph of the Declaration of the Establishment of State of Israel of 14 May 1948 [ 5 ] expresses the declaration to be by virtue of our natural and historic ...
25 April – Members of Lehi kill seven British soldiers guarding a military car park in Tel Aviv. [1] 30 April – The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry recommended the immediate admission of 100,000 Jewish refugees from Europe into Palestine. It also recommended that Palestine remain a mandated territory, that facilities be put in place to ...
Rishi Sunak has promised ‘always’ to stand with Israel, in a message to Britain’s Jewish community a week on from the attack by Hamas. Sunak promises to ‘stand with’ Israel and British ...
Professor Malcolm Shaw KC will represent the country in The Hague.