creationOfStateOfIsrael

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The creationOfStateOfIsrael refers to the establishment in 1948 of the modern State of Israel as a sovereign Jewish nation in the historic Land of Israel, following decades of Zionist movement and post–World War II geopolitical developments.


Statements (50)
Predicate Object
instanceOf historicalEvent
politicalEvent
commemoratedOn Yom Ha’atzmaut
commemorationType Israeli Independence Day
countryCreated State of Israel
declaredAs Jewish state
independent state
declaredBy Jewish People’s Council
Moetzet HaAm
documentName Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel
documentType declarationOfIndependence
endedPoliticalEntity British Mandate for Palestine
followedEvent Holocaust
World War II
end of British Mandate for Palestine
hasDate 1948-05-14
hasName Creation of the State of Israel
Establishment of the State of Israel
Israeli Declaration of Independence
hasYear 1948
historicalRegion Eretz Israel
ideologicalBackground Jewish national movement
Zionism
immediateConsequence 1948 Arab–Israeli War
keyFigure David Ben-Gurion
keyFigureRole David Ben-Gurion read the Declaration of Independence
David Ben-Gurion was the primary national founder of the State of Israel
languageOfDeclaration Hebrew
legalContext United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine
legalPrincipleInvoked right of the Jewish people to national self-determination
locationOfDeclaration Tel Aviv Museum of Art
mandateEndDate 1948-05-15
opposedBy Arab Higher Committee
Arab League states
populationContext Jewish refugees from Arab and Muslim countries
Jewish refugees from Europe
predecessorEntity British Mandate for Palestine
proclaimedCapitalInDeclaration Jerusalem (implicitly referenced as capital)
recognizedFirstBy Soviet Union
United States
resultedIn creation of Israeli government institutions
membership application to the United Nations
supportedBy Jewish Agency for Palestine
World Zionist Organization
timezoneOfKeyEvent UTC+2
tookPlaceIn Land of Israel
Mandatory Palestine
Tel Aviv
UNResolutionDate 1947-11-29
UNResolutionNumber UN General Assembly Resolution 181

Referenced by (4)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Holocaust
impact
Beersheba ("State of Israel in 1948")
incorporatedInto
Zvi Luria ("Establishment of the State of Israel")
participatedIn
Supermarine Spitfire ("Arab–Israeli War of 1948")
usedInConflict

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