may 14, 1948 - Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

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David Ben-Gurion, Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization and Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, declared the establishment of the State of Israel per proclamation of the Israeli Declaration of Independence, formally the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel.

It declared the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine (or the Land of Israel in the Jewish tradition), to be known as the State of Israel, which would come into effect on termination of the British Mandate at midnight that day. The event is celebrated annually in Israel as Independence Day, a national holiday on 5 Iyar of every year according to the Hebrew calendar.

The proclamation ushered in the second phase of the 1948 Palestine war with the intervention of the Arab state armies and the beginning of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

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