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Provisional Government of Israel
Official Gazette: Number 1; Tel Aviv, 5 Iyar 5708, 14.5.1948 Page 1
The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel
The Land of Israel was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they first attained to statehood, created cultural values of national and universal significance and gave to the world the eternal Book of Books.After being forcibly exiled from their land, the people kept faith with it throughout their Dispersion and never ceased to pray and hope for their return to it and for the restoration in it of their political freedom.
Impelled by this historic and traditional attachment, Jews strove in every successive generation to re-establish themselves in their ancient homeland. In recent decades they returned in their masses. Pioneers, defiant returnees, and defenders, they made deserts bloom, revived the Hebrew language, built villages and towns, and created a thriving community controlling its own economy and culture, loving peace but knowing how to defend itself, bringing the blessings of progress to all the country’s inhabitants, and aspiring towards independent nationhood.
In the year 5657 (1897), at the summons of the spiritual father of the Jewish State, Theodore Herzl, the First Zionist Congress convened and proclaimed the right of the Jewish people to national rebirth in its own country.
This right was recognized in the Balfour Declaration of the 2nd November, 1917, and re-affirmed in the Mandate of the League of Nations which, in particular, gave international sanction to the historic connection between the Jewish people and Eretz-Israel and to the right of the Jewish people to rebuild its National Home.
The catastrophe which recently befell the Jewish people – the massacre of millions of Jews in Europe – was another clear demonstration of the urgency of solving the problem of its homelessness by re-establishing in Eretz-Israel the Jewish State, which would open the gates of the homeland wide to every Jew and confer upon the Jewish people the status of a fully privileged member of the community of nations.
Survivors of the Nazi holocaust in Europe, as well as Jews from other parts of the world, continued to migrate to Eretz-Israel, undaunted by difficulties, restrictions and dangers, and never ceased to assert their right to a life of dignity, freedom and honest toil in their national homeland.
In the Second World War, the Jewish community of this country contributed its full share to the struggle of the freedom- and peace-loving nations against the forces of Nazi wickedness and, by the blood of its soldiers and its war effort, gained the right to be reckoned among the peoples who founded the United Nations.
On the 29th November, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the establishment of a Jewish State in Eretz-Israel; the General Assembly required the inhabitants of Eretz-Israel to take such steps as were necessary on their part for the implementation of that resolution. This recognition by the United Nations of the right of the Jewish people to establish their State is irrevocable.
This right is the natural right of the Jewish people to be masters of their own fate, like all other nations, in their own sovereign State.
Accordingly we, members of the People’s Council, representatives of the Jewish Community of Eretz-Israel and of the Zionist Movement, are here assembled on the day of the termination of the British Mandate over Eretz-Israel and, by virtue of our natural and historic right and on the strength of the resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, hereby declare the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel.
We declare that, with effect from the moment of the termination of the Mandate being tonight, the eve of Sabbath, the 6th Iyar, 5708 (15th May, 1948), until the establishment of the elected, regular authorities of the State in accordance with the Constitution which shall be adopted by the Elected Constituent Assembly not later than the 1st October 1948, the People’s Council shall act as a Provisional Council of State, and its executive organ, the People’s Administration, shall be the Provisional Government of the Jewish State, to be called “Israel.”
The State of Israel will be open for Jewish immigration and for the Ingathering of the Exiles; it will foster the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; it will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel; it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture; it will safeguard the Holy Places of all religions; and it will be faithful to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations.
The State of Israel is prepared to cooperate with the agencies and representatives of the United Nations in implementing the resolution of the General Assembly of the 29th November, 1947, and will take steps to bring about the economic union of the whole of Eretz-Israel.
We appeal to the United Nations to assist the Jewish people in the building-up of its State and to receive the State of Israel into the community of nations.
We appeal – in the very midst of the onslaught launched against us now for months – to the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to preserve peace and participate in the upbuilding of the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship and due representation in all its provisional and permanent institutions.
We extend our hand to all neighbouring states and their peoples in an offer of peace and good neighbourliness, and appeal to them to establish bonds of cooperation and mutual help with the sovereign Jewish people settled in its own land. The State of Israel is prepared to do its share in a common effort for the advancement of the entire Middle East.
We appeal to the Jewish people throughout the Diaspora to rally round the Jews of Eretz-Israel in the tasks of immigration and upbuilding and to stand by them in the great struggle for the realization of the age-old dream – the redemption of Israel.
Placing our trust in the Almighty, we affix our signatures to this proclamation at this session of the provisional Council of State, on the soil of the Homeland, in the city of Tel-Aviv, on this Sabbath eve, the 5th day of Iyar, 5708 (14th May, 1948).
David Ben-GurionDaniel Auster Mordekhai Bentov Yitzchak Ben Zvi Eliyahu Berligne Fritz Bernstein Rabbi Wolf Gold Meir Grabovsky Yitzchak Gruenbaum Dr. Abraham Granovsky Eliyahu Dobkin Meir Wilner-Kovner Zerach Wahrhaftig Herzl Vardi Rachel Cohen Rabbi Kalman Kahana Saadia Kobashi Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Levin Meir David Loewenstein Zvi Luria Golda Myerson Nachum Nir Zvi Segal Rabbi Yehuda Leib Hacohen Fishman David Zvi Pinkas Aharon Zisling Moshe Kolodny Eliezer Kaplan Abraham Katznelson Felix Rosenblueth David Remez Berl Repetur Mordekhai Shattner Ben Zion Sternberg Bekhor Shitreet Moshe Shapira Moshe Shertok
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My Hatikva– Esther Jungreis
mikeh420 Said:
After that they became executives at the BBC.
Not only did the British supply arms to the Arabs but the majority of the military commanders of the Arab League forces were British officers.
Along the road of ashes and blood from the Holocaust to Israel.
Happy Birthday.
The beginning of our Redemption and the hidden hand of G-d:
According to our holy Torah, HaShem created the universe from nothing, and then guided its evolution over the course of the six divine days of creation. At first, His miracles were performed openly, and He spoke to us through His prophets.
As we became more “enlightened”, His miracles became hidden, so that His Presence and guiding Hand would not be obvious.
For two thousand years, He sent us into exile among the horrible christians and muslims. Although many feared (and still do), that the exile would be never-ending (that is, until moshiakh eventually comes and saves us in a supernatural manner), we still never stopped trying to return to our holy homeland (and managed to do so at the first opportunity).
When the time did come, in contrast to egypt and babylon, it was not sudden, but gradual, and required numerous hidden miracles. That is because, above all, HaShem desires that we have free choice, to listen for His “small, quiet, voice” speaking to us in our hearts, and decide for ourselves if the time to make aliyah has arrived.
Here’s a partial list of those hidden miracles: 1) Leading up to World War One, the foreign Turks owned palestine and all its land. 2) The turkish empire had fallen into decay and corruption, and was willing to sell some land in palestine to the Jews. 3) The British wanted to destroy Turkey, and take over its arab possessions. The Prime Minister (David Lloyd George) and the Foreign Secretary (Lord Balfour), in contrast to most british politicians, had some christian Zionist leanings. 4) The communist revolution threatened to take Russia out of the War. 5) Chaim Weizmann was a friend of Lord Balfour. The Jew-hating Russians had previously driven his family out of Russia, but instead of coming to America, he ended up in England. He was a brilliant chemist (the usual high-IQ Ashkenazi Jew), and made important contributions to the British war effort. Lord Balfour thought that Russian Jews were behind the communist revolution, and by declaring British support for a Jewish Homeland in Palestine, he could get the Russians to keep fighting the Germans. 6) Jews started making aliyah. The British, like all gentiles, soon reverted to their traditional stance of Jew-hatred, and began to limit Jewish aliya. 7) The WASPs ruling America refused to let even a single Jewish baby into America, forcing the few Jews who could escape europe to go to palestine. Of course, the Jew-hating american WASPs made exceptions for any high-IQ european Ashkenazi Jews who could help them build an atom bomb. 8) Franklin Roosevelt was a typical american WASP Jew-hater, who was happy to see catholic hitler kill six million european Jews. He was re-elected to be President from 1944 to 1948. The power-brokers in the Democratic party thought the then vice-president (Henry Wallace) to be too liberal, and replaced him with Harry S. Truman. So when Roosevelt died in 1945, it was Truman who became the new President. 9) Truman, in contrast to almost every traditional WASP in the American government, was something of an American christian Zionist. In 1948, opposing everyone else in the American government, as well as the entire British government, he supported the formation of the Jewish State of Israel. 10) The Jew-hater Stalin also supported Israel, in order to hasten the destruction of the British empire, so that the first Jewish State of Israel in 2,000 years came into being. 11) The small Jewish army of Israel successfully fought off millions of Jew-hating arab muslims. Six thousand Israeli Jews died in that war, one percent of the population. The Jew-hating British had supplied weapons to the muslims, while the Jew-hater Stalin helped weapons get to Israel, in order to counter the British.
So there you have it: Turks, World War One, Lord Balfour, Chaim Weizmann, Harry S. Truman, even Stalin. All part of the hidden miracles.
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