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PART III:
Modern Israel
Israel’s first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion declares independence beneath a portrait of Theodor Herzl.
DECLARING ISRAEL A STATE IN 1948
After winning World War I, the Allied Powers assigned Great Britain the legal responsibility of establishing a national home for the Jewish people under the Mandate for Palestine. Ratified by the League of Nations and binding under interna- tional law, the 1920 Mandate gave Jews the right to over 46,000 square miles for their national home. But between 1920 and 1948, Britain reduced the size of the land allotted to the Jews again and again, until only a tiny fragment remained.
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