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ISRAEL'S DECLARATIO

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THE FUG O F ISRAEL LONG

The full text of the State of Israel's Proclamation

on Friday, May 14, 1948, 10:01 a. rn., by the Pr(

The Land of Israel was the birthplace of the Jewish people. He're
their spiritual, religious and national identity was formed. Here they
achieved independence and created a culture of national and universal
significance. Here they wrote and gave the Bible to the world.

Exiled from Palestine, the Jewish people remained faithful to it in
all the countries of their dispersion, never ceasing to pray and hope for
their return and restoration of their national freedom.

Impelled by this historic association, Jews strove throughout the
centuries to go back to the land of their fathers and regain statehood,
In recent decades, they returned in the masses. They reclaimed a wilder-
ness, revived their language, built cities and villages, and established a
vigorous and ever-growing community, with its own economic and cul
tural life: They sought peace, yet were ever prepared to defend them-
selves. They brought blessings of progress to all inhabitants of the
country.

In the year 1897 the first Zionist Congress, inspired by Theodor
Herzl's vision of a Jewish state, proclaimed the right of the Jewish
people to a national revival in their own country.

Following the announcement that a Jewish state had been pro-
claimed after 1,878 years, 14-year-old Haim Sherto, son of Israel's
k, unfurls the flag of the new state
in
a circle
Foreign Minister Moshe Sherto
New York City. On the street below, celebrants dance in
beneath the windows of the Jewish Agency for Palestine.

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This right was acknowledged by the Balfour Declaration of Novem-
ber 2, 1917, and reaffirmed by the mandate of the League of Nations,
whichgave explicit international recognition to the historic connection
of the Jewish people with Palestine and their right to reconstitute their
national home.

The Nazi holocaust which engulfed millions of Jews in Europe proved
anew the urgency of the re-establishment of the Jewish state, which
would solve the problem of Jewish homelessness by opening the gates to
all Jews and lifting the Jewish people to equality in the family of nations.

world's struggle for peace and freedom for all, and to this end

Survivors of the European catastrophe as well as Jews from other
lands, claiming their right to a life of dignity, freedom and labor,,and
undeterred by hazards, hardships and obstacles, have tried unceasingly

may Israel and Humanity dedicate all future efforts through

to enter Palestine.

a strong United Nations. To this end we pledge our unending

In the second world war, the Jewish people in Palestine made a full
contribution in the struggle of freedom-loving nations against the Nazi
evil. The sacrifices of their soldiers and efforts of their workers gained
them title to rank with the people who founded the United Nations. On
November 29, 1947, the General Assembly of United Nations adopted
a resolution for re-establishment of an independent Jewish state in
Palestine and called upon inhabitants of the country to take such steps
as may be necessary on their part to put the plan into effect.

May the revived State of Israel emerge as a monument in the

efforts to make Israel secure and peaceful.

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This recognition by the United Nations of the right of the Jewish
people to establish their independent state may not' be revoked. It is,
moreover, the self-evident right of the Jewish people to be .a nation, as
all other nations, in its own sovereign state.

d Earl Hordes

and. Mrs., Abe Kasle

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Government of the Stat
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fil am proud of the great honor bestowed upon m
of Israel in electing me as its first president. It is in a humble
the Council for the confidence which is reposed in me. I dedi
_cause I have been privileged to labor these many years. I sent
this expression of my deepest and most heartfelt affection in

struggle forced upon us will speedily end and will be succe,
the people of Israel and those who are waiting to join us in •tl

"I regret that at this moment I am not with my peopl
who are bearing the brunt of sacrifice in Israel's defense. TI

fallen.

"Zion shall be redeemed in justice."

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