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May 14, 1948, the Jewish National Council proclaimed the State of Israel by Beth Rowen Related LinksIsrael Zionism Palestine Areas of DisputeGolan Heights Suez Canal West Bank Gaza Strip Jerusalem Sinai Notable EventsSix-Day War Yom Kippur War Intifada PoliticsKnesset Camp David Accord Wye Accord Likud Party Ariel Sharon, Israeli Prime Minister, 2001–2006 May 14, 2008, marked the 60th anniversary of the creation of the modern State of Israel. As part of the 19th-century Zionist movement, Jews had begun settling in Palestine as early as 1820. This effort to establish a Jewish homeland received British approval in the Balfour Declaration of 1917.During the 1930s, Jews persecuted by the Hitler regime poured into Palestine. The postwar acknowledgment of the Holocaust—Hitler’s genocide of 6 million Jews—increased international interest in and sympathy for the cause of Zionism. However, Arabs in Palestine and surrounding countries bitterly opposed prewar and postwar proposals to partition Palestine into Arab and Jewish sectors. The British mandate to govern Palestine ended after the war, and, in 1947, the UN voted to partition Palestine. When the British officially withdrew on May 14, 1948, the Jewish National Council proclaimed the State of Israel. Prominent Israeli Politicians Ehud Barak David Ben-Gurion Yizhak Ben-Zvi Golda Meir Moshe Dayan Abba Eban Levi Eshkol Benjamin Netanyahu Ehud Olmert Shimon Peres Yitzhak Rabin Yitzhak Shamir Moshe Sharett Ariel Sharon Chaim Weizmann Ezer Weizman Other Players in Modern Israel’s History Mahmoud Abbas Yasir Arafat Menachem Begin Anwar Sadat More from International Relations
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May 14, 1948, the Jewish National Council proclaimed the State of Israel
May 14, 2008, marked the 60th anniversary of the creation of the modern State of Israel. As part of the 19th-century Zionist movement, Jews had begun settling in Palestine as early as 1820. This effort to establish a Jewish homeland received British approval in the Balfour Declaration of 1917.
Areas of Dispute
- Golan Heights Suez Canal West Bank Gaza Strip Jerusalem Sinai
Notable Events
- Six-Day War Yom Kippur War Intifada
Prominent Israeli Politicians
- Ehud Barak David Ben-Gurion Yizhak Ben-Zvi Golda Meir Moshe Dayan Abba Eban Levi Eshkol Benjamin Netanyahu Ehud Olmert Shimon Peres Yitzhak Rabin Yitzhak Shamir Moshe Sharett Ariel Sharon Chaim Weizmann Ezer Weizman
Other Players in Modern Israel’s History
Mahmoud Abbas Yasir Arafat Menachem Begin Anwar Sadat
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