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In January 1949, Israel held its first elections. The Socialist-Zionist parties Mapai and Mapam won the most seats (46 and 19 respectively). Mapai's leader David Ben-Gurion was appointed prime minister, and formed a coalition that did not include Mapam, who were Stalinist and loyal to the USSR (another Stalinist party, non-Zionist Maki won 4 ...
1949 Israeli legislative election: Elections were held to a constituent assembly. Ben-Gurion's center-left Mapai won a plurality of seats. 24 February: 1948 Arab–Israeli War: The first of the 1949 Armistice Agreements ending the war was signed between Israel and Egypt.
[58] 260,000 reached Israel in 1948–1951, 600,000 by 1972. [58] [59] [60] While most of the Palestinian Arab population that remained in Israel after the war was granted an Israeli citizenship, Arab Israelis were subject to martial law up to 1966. A variety of legal measures facilitated the transfer of land abandoned by Arabs to state ownership.
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 ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably. Consider splitting content into sub-articles, condensing it, or adding subheadings. Please discuss this issue on the article's talk page. (February 2025) Visual History of Israel by Arthur Szyk, 1948 Part of a series on the History of ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. This article needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (October 2024) This timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict lists events from 1948 to the present. The Israeli–Palestinian conflict emerged from intercommunal conflict ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Second Intifada Part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict Clockwise from top-left: Palestinian child Faris Odeh throws a stone at an Israeli tank in the Gaza Strip Israeli soldiers in Nablus during Operation Defensive Shield Aftermath of a Palestinian suicide bombing on a public transit bus near ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. U.S. President Bill Clinton, Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at Camp David, July 2000 The 2000 Camp David Summit was a summit meeting at Camp David between United States president Bill Clinton, Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority ...