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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Map 1: United Nations -derived boundary map of Israel and the Israeli-occupied territories (2007, updated to 2018) The modern borders of Israel exist as the result both of past wars and of diplomatic agreements between the State of Israel and its neighbours, as well as an effect of the agreements ...
David Ben-Gurion publicly pronouncing the Declaration of the State of Israel, May 14, 1948. On May 14, 1948, one day before the British Mandate expired, Ben-Gurion declared "the establishment of a Jewish State in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel". The declaration was stated to be "by virtue of our natural and historic right and ...
Prior to the declaration of Israel in 1948, the UN proposed a United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine based on the location of land legally purchased [2] and used to create Jewish Settlements in the area. Jewish Settlement in Palestine 1880-1914 This maps depicts the originally anticipated borders of Israel upon inception 1938
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 ...
A Haganah (Jewish Underground) fighter just before the start of the Israeli war of independence in 1948 [Getty Images] By the time the fighting ended with an armistice in 1949, Israel controlled ...
Jordanian forces remained in the West Bank, where the British had stationed them before the war. Jordan annexed the areas it occupied while Egypt kept Gaza as an occupied zone. Following the ceasefire declaration, Britain released over 2,000 Jewish detainees it was still holding in Cyprus and recognized the state of Israel.
On May 14, 1948, at the end of the British Mandate, the Jewish People's Council gathered in Tel Aviv and the chairman of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, [22] declared the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel. [23] U.S. President Harry Truman recognised the State of Israel de facto the
The 1949 Armistice Agreements were signed between Israel and Egypt, [1] Lebanon, [2] Jordan, [3] and Syria. [4] They formally ended the hostilities of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and also demarcated the Green Line , which separated Arab-controlled territory (i.e., the Jordanian-annexed West Bank and the Egyptian-occupied Gaza Strip ) from ...