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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 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.
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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 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.
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