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After nearly 2000 years in the diaspora the Jewish people found a national home in Palestine. In the year 1948 the State of Israel was founded.
Video
Overview
- Date
- 14 May 1948
- Location: Israel (before: Mandatory Palestine)
- Start: Immediate prehistory since the 1920s / long-term prehistory since ancient times
- End: Israeli declaration of independence
Parties & Persons Involved
- David Ben Gurion (1886 – 1973), first Israeli Prime Minister
- Organisations preceding the State of Israel, i.e. Yishuv
- Organisations preceding the IDF, i.e. Haganah
- Palestinian organisations
- Arab League
- Mandatory Palestine
Prehistory
Historic Roots
66 – 135 The Roman Empire prevails in the Jewish-Roman Wars which leads to:
- Removal of Jews from Palestine & destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem (70)
- Start of the Jewish Diaspora
Development in Europe
- From 9th century: Anti-Judaism & exclusion of Jews from the European societies
- From 19th century: Anti-Semitism, leading to the Holocaust
- 19th century: Jewish Emancipation (Integration of Jews into the societies)
Zionist Development (Zion = Temple in Jerusalem)
- From 1800: Publications & discussion about a Jewish state
- 29 Aug 1897: Foundation of the World Zionist Organisation
- 1882-1948: Aliyot (Aliyah = ascent) – Jewish immigration into Palestine
The History Directly Leading to the Independence of Israel
- 24 Jul 1922: League of Nations confirms the British Mandate for Palestine
- “...the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, it being clearly understood that nothing should be done which might prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine.”
- 1928 & 1929: Recognition of Yishuv (= settlement) as antecedent to the Jewish state & Jewish Agency as representative of the Jews in Mandatory Palestine
- From 1921: Arab riots against Jews
- 1936-1939: Arab revolt against Britons & Jews
- 1931-1948: Jewish revolt (terrorist activities against Britons & Arabs)
- 29 Nov 1947: UN Two State Solution for Palestine
- Accepted by the Jewish Agency
- Rejected by the Arab League
- 14 May 1948: Israeli declaration of independence
Consequences & Impact
- Foundation & further development of the State of Israel
- Israeli War of Independence (Israeli-Arab Phase: 15 May 1848 – 20 Jul 1849) begins with the declaration of independence
- Begin of the Arab-Israeli conflict
- Begin of the Palestinian Conflict