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Proclamation of the State of Israel

David Ben-Gurion is shown here reading the Proclamation of the State of Israel, at the first meet-
ing of the Provisional Council, the forerunner of the Knesset, in the Tel Aviv Museum, on May 14, 1948
—the fifth day of lyar, 5708, on the Jewish calendar. Members of the Provisional Government on the
platform, (from left), seated, were: Behor Shitreet, David Remez, Pinhas Rosen, Perez Bernstein, Rabbi
Y. L. Maimon (Fishman) David Ben-Gurion, Moshe Shapiro, Moshe Sharett Eliezer Kaplan, Mordehai
Bentov and Aharon Zisling. Except for Pinhas Rosen, David Ben-Gurion and Mordehai Bentov, all of the
men on the platform are no longer living.

A salute to the twenty-fifth anniversary

of the State of Israel and to its heroic

people in their struggle for independence

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