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In 1984 the British government signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration with China and agreed to turn over Hong Kong and its dependencies in 1997. British rule ended on 30 June 1997, with China taking over at midnight, 1 July 1997 (at end of the 99-year lease over the New Territories , along with the ceded Hong Kong Island and Kowloon ).
38th battalion of the Jewish Legion marching in London, 1918. Britain seized Palestine from the Ottoman Empire during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign in World War I.Close cooperation between Britain and the Yishuv, the nascent pre-state Jewish community in Palestine, developed during this time, when Britain received intelligence from the Nili Jewish spy network, which assisted British forces ...
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]
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 ...
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 ...
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
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 ...