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In 1948, following the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine, the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel 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 Israeli Declaration of Independence, formally the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel [2] (Hebrew: הכרזה על הקמת מדינת ישראל), was proclaimed on 14 May 1948 (5 Iyar 5708) by David Ben-Gurion, the Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization, [a] [3] Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, and later first Prime Minister of Israel. [4]
Between 1948 and 1958, the population of Israel rose from 800,000 to two million. During this period, food, clothes and furniture had to be rationed in what became known as the Austerity Period (Tkufat haTsena). Immigrants were mostly refugees with no money or possessions and many were housed in temporary camps known as ma'abarot. By 1952, over ...
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 ...
David Ben-Gurion publicly pronouncing the Israeli Declaration of Independence, May 14, 1948. The State of Israel was declared after the end of the civil war, which was raging for six months in Palestine after the vote by the United Nation to partition Palestine between Palestinian Jews and Arabs.
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 ...
The Soviet Union was the first country to grant de jure recognition to Israel on 17 May 1948, [7] followed by Nicaragua, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Poland. [8] The United States extended de jure recognition after the first Israeli election , [ 9 ] on 31 January 1949.
UNRWA was founded by the United Nations a year after the 1948 creation of Israel that led to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes in an event known by ...