Provisional Government of Israel

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The Provisional Government of Israel was the temporary governing body that led the newly declared State of Israel from its independence in May 1948 until the establishment of its first elected government.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cabinet
provisional government
appliesToJurisdiction Israeli-controlled territory in 1948
Israel
surface form: State of Israel
appliesToPeriod 1948–1949 in Israel
appliesToTerritorialJurisdiction Mandatory Palestine
capital Tel Aviv
country Israel
countryGoverned Israel
surface form: State of Israel
endTime 1949-03-10
establishedForEvent Israeli Declaration of Independence
executiveBranch Provisional Government of Israel self-linksurface differs
surface form: Cabinet of the Provisional Government of Israel
followed Moetzet HaAm
surface form: Minhelet HaAm
governmentForm parliamentary system
hasCabinetMember Aharon Zisling
Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit
David Ben-Gurion
Eliezer Kaplan
Golda Meir
Haim-Moshe Shapira
Mordechai Bentov
Moshe Sharett
Peretz Naftali
Pinhas Rosen
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
Yitzhak Gruenbaum
hasDissolutionCause formation of the First Knesset
formation of the first elected Government of Israel
headOfGovernment David Ben-Gurion
headOfState Chaim Weizmann
historyOfTopic history of Israel
legalBasis Law and Administration Ordinance 1948
legislativeBody Provisional State Council
legislativeBranch Provisional State Council
legislativeTerm 1948–1949
locatedInTimeZone UTC+02:00
nativeLabel HaMemshela HaZmanit
הממשלה הזמנית
numberOfMembers 13
officialLanguage Arabic
Hebrew
partOf establishment of the State of Israel
replacedBy Provisional Government of Israel self-linksurface differs
surface form: First Government of Israel
replaces British Mandate for Palestine
surface form: British Mandate administration in Palestine
significantEvent Arab–Israeli War of 1948
surface form: 1948 Arab–Israeli War

adoption of the Law and Administration Ordinance 1948
adoption of the Proclamation of Independence
creation of the Israel Defense Forces
startTime 1948-05-14

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Israeli flag adoptedBy Provisional Government of Israel
this entity surface form: Provisional Council of State of Israel
Jewish People’s Council associatedWith Provisional Government of Israel
Provisional Government of Israel executiveBranch Provisional Government of Israel self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Cabinet of the Provisional Government of Israel
Saadia Kobashi memberOf Provisional Government of Israel
this entity surface form: Provisional Council of Israel
Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit partOf Provisional Government of Israel
this entity surface form: Provisional government of Israel
Provisional Government of Israel replacedBy Provisional Government of Israel self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: First Government of Israel