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As of June 2024, the State of Israel is recognized as a sovereign state by 164 of the 192 member states of the United Nations. The State of Israel was formally established by the Israeli Declaration of Independence on 14 May 1948, and was admitted to the United Nations (UN) as a full member state on 11 May 1949.
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 273, voting results by country. On 15 May 1948, one day after the declaration of its establishment, Israel applied for membership of the United Nations, but the application was not acted on by the Security Council. Israel's second application was rejected by the Security Council on 17 December 1948 by ...
Obverse side of a 20 NIS bill, showing the raising of the Israeli Flag on the UN Building, following the resolution. United Nations General Assembly Resolution 273 was adopted on May 11, 1949, during the second part of the third session of the United Nations General Assembly, to admit the State of Israel to membership in the United Nations.
On 11 May 1949, Israel was admitted to the United Nations (UN) as a full member state. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It also has bilateral ties with each of the UNSC Permanent Five . As of 2022 [update] , 28 of the 193 UN member states do not recognize Israeli sovereignty ; the Muslim world accounts for 25 of the 28 non-recognizing countries, with Cuba , North ...
Arab nations including Bahrain and the UAE and later Morocco and Sudan recognized Israel. It was a major development, but one that did not address the problems of Palestinians, who lost leverage.
In 1975, as part of the Sinai II agreement, Kissinger had promised Israel that the United States would not deal with the PLO until it recognized Israel's right to exist and accepted United Nations Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338. [84]
The PLO was committed to the destruction of Israel; but in the Oslo Accords with its leader, Yasir Arafat, brokered by the United States in 1993, the PLO agreed to recognize Israel’s right to exist.
A UN-mediated prisoner exchange between Israel and Hezbollah in 2008 saw the return of the remains of the two Israeli soldiers captured in 2006 for five Lebanese prisoners. Israel later released ...