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Irrlarattnn nf ttjp $EBtablishmi?tit nf the 8>talp of Ssrapl ERETZ ISRAEL1 was the birthplice of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they fir«t attained to statehood, rrasrted cultnral values of national and universal significance and gave to the world the eternal Book of Book 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, ma'pilim2 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 indepandant nationhood. In the year 56S7 (1897), at the summons of the spiritual father of the Jewish State, Theodor 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 Balfonr Declaration of the 2nd November, 1917, and reaffirmed in the Mandate of the League of Nations which, in particular, gave international sanction to the historic connection between the Jewish people and Kr.t • l-rj.-l and to the right of the Jawlsli p**ple to rebuild its National Home. The catastrophe which recently befell the Jewish people—the massacre of millions of J.:** 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 comity 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, nndaunted 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^Nazij' wickedness 'and,, byvth'e blood of/its soldiers and its war effort, gained the right to be reckoned among the)peoples, who' founded the United Nation On the 29th November 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 Nations of the right of other nations, in their necessary on their part for Whe,implem'entatio'n\of ,that.resolution. This recognition 'by^heJUnited N the Jewish people to estaiblish's their? State is irrevocable This right is the natural right of the^Jewish people.to own sovereign State. ACCORDINGLY ,WE,MEMBERS OF6THE PEOPLEJS'COUNCIUT REPRESENTATIVES OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF ERETZ-ISR/TeL AND OFs.THE"ZIONIST'MOVEMENT, AREVfiiERK7 ASSEMBLED ON THE DAY OF THE TERIVJINATFON'OF THE BRITISH-MANDATE'OVER ERETZ-ISRAEL^AND, BY VIRTUE OF OUR NATURAL AND (HISTORIC RIGHT AND ONTHE~STRENGTH OF THE^ESOLUTION OF THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY. HEREBY DECLARE -THE ESTABLISHMENt/bF7 V JEWISH STATE IN ERETZ-ISRAEL. KNOWN AS THE STATEjjOFjfSRAEL. lie moment of] the termination of the [Mandate/being tonight, the eve of Sabbath, the 6th Iyar, S708 tl5thv'May,.1948), until the.establishment'of.the.elected. regular authorities of the Sta WE DECLARE that,|with1e'ffcr't)from the (he 6lh Iyar, S708 tl5thx'May,.1948), until the.establishment'of.the.elected, regular authorities of the State in accordance with the Constitution which* Shall'be adoptediby.the-Elecied/Cnni.tiluent Assembly the 1st October, 1948, the People's Council shall act 'as ^'Provisional Counci)t"of;State,' and/its! executive organ',, the* People's Administration, shall bo the Provisional Governm'ent'of'the Jewish State'.'to"be'called "Israel the Holy Places of all religions ;"!a'hd it Avill be faithful to the principles of the Charter of the United Natior THE STATE OF ISRAEL is .prepared to cooperate with the agencies and representatives of the United Nations in implementing the resolution of the',Ge'herai.l'Assemblv of'thef29th~N6vemberT"'1947; und'will take ste tO'assist_the,Jewish people.in-the buildi economic union of the whole of Eretz-Israel WE APPEAL to the United Nations of Israel into the comity of nations. steps to bring about the building-up of its State and to receive the State 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^lhe 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 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 TELAVIV, ON THIS SABBATH EVE, THE Sth DAY OF IYAR. S708 (14th MAY, 1948). David Ben-Gnrion Daniel Auster Mordekhai Bentov Yitzchak Ben Zvi Eliyahu Berliene Fritz Bernstein Rabbi Wolf Gold Meir Grabovsky Yitzchak Gruenbaum Dr. Abraham Granoviky Eliyahu Dobkin Meir Wilner-Kovner Zerach Wahrhaftig Herzl Vardl Rachel Cohen Rabbi Kalman Kahana Saadia Kobashi Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Levin Meir David Loevensteln 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 Rerl Repetur Mordekhai Shattner Ben Zion Sternberg Bekhor Shitreet Moshe Shapira
Object Description
Collection Name | Jewish Community Relations Council, Boston, Massachusetts |
Collection Number | I-123 |
Dates | 1958 |
Box Number | 156 |
Folder Number | 02 |
Subjects |
Antisemitism Civil Rights Social Justice World War II |
Access | Request access |
Rights | User has an obligation to determine copyright or other use restrictions prior to publication or distribution. Please contact the archives at reference@ajhsboston.org or 617-226-1245 for more information. |
Source | American Jewish Historical Society-New England Archives, New England Historic Genealogical Society |
Description
Collection Name | Jewish Community Relations Council, Boston, Massachusetts |
Collection Number | I-123 |
Dates | 1958 |
Box Number | 156 |
Folder Number | 02 |
Subjects |
Antisemitism Civil Rights Social Justice World War II |
Description |
Activities Israel Anniversary Celebrations Tenth Anniversary Government Proclamations |
Access | Request access |
Rights | User has an obligation to determine copyright or other use restrictions prior to publication or distribution. Please contact the archives at reference@ajhsboston.org or 617-226-1245 for more information. |
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Irrlarattnn nf ttjp $EBtablishmi?tit nf the 8>talp of Ssrapl
ERETZ ISRAEL1 was the birthplice of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious and political identity was
shaped. Here they fir«t attained to statehood, rrasrted cultnral values of national and universal significance and gave to the
world the eternal Book of Book
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, ma'pilim2 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 indepandant nationhood.
In the year 56S7 (1897), at the summons of the spiritual father of the Jewish State, Theodor 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 Balfonr Declaration of the 2nd November, 1917, and reaffirmed in the Mandate of
the League of Nations which, in particular, gave international sanction to the historic connection between the Jewish people
and Kr.t • l-rj.-l and to the right of the Jawlsli p**ple to rebuild its National Home.
The catastrophe which recently befell the Jewish people—the massacre of millions of J.:** 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 comity 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, nndaunted 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^Nazij' wickedness 'and,, byvth'e blood of/its soldiers and its war effort,
gained the right to be reckoned among the)peoples, who' founded the United Nation
On the 29th November United Nations General Assembly-passed a resolution calling for the establishment
of a Jewish State in Eretz-Israel; |
Source | American Jewish Historical Society-New England Archives, New England Historic Genealogical Society |
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