Event

The Israeli Declaration of Independence is made

14 May 1948 · 31.63° N, 35.15° E

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When
14 May 1948
Kind
Event
Coordinates
31.63° N, 35.15° E

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Israeli Declaration of Independence.

Summary

The Israeli Declaration of Independence is made. David Ben-Gurion becomes the first prime minister, a provisional position that will become formalized on February 14, 1949.

Israeli Declaration of Independence

1948 establishment of a Jewish state

The Israeli Declaration of Independence, formally the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, was proclaimed at the Tel Aviv Museum on 14 May 1948, at the end of the civil war phase and beginning of the Arab–Israeli War of the 1948 Palestine war, by the Va'ad Leumi led by David Ben-Gurion, the executive head of the World Zionist Organization and chairman of the Jewish Agency for Palestine.

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