Israeli Declaration of Independence

The Israeli Declaration of Independence, formally the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel^[2] (Hebrew: הכרזה על הקמת מדינת ישראל), was proclaimed on 14 May 1948 (5 Iyar 5708) by David Ben-Gurion, the Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization,^[a]^[3] Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, and later first Prime Minister of Israel.^[4] It declared the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel, which would come into effect on termination of the British Mandate at midnight that day.^[5]^[1] The event is celebrated annually in Israel as Independence Day, a national holiday on 5 Iyar of every year according to the Hebrew calendar.

Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

מגילת העצמאות של מדינת ישראל

14 May 1948 (5 Iyar 5708)

Tel Aviv

First Draft:
Zvi Berenson
Second Draft:
Moshe Shertok
David Remez
Felix Rosenblueth
Moshe Shapira
Aharon Zisling
Third Draft:
David Ben-Gurion
Yehuda Leib Fishman
Aharon Zisling
Moshe Shertok

Declare a Jewish state in Mandatory Palestine shortly before the expiration of the British Mandate.^[1]

For: , Moshe Sharett (Mapai); Peretz Bernstein (General Zionists); Haim-Moshe Shapira (Hapoel HaMizrachi); Mordechai Bentov, Aharon Zisling (Mapam).

David Ben-Gurion

Against: , David Remez (Mapai); Pinchas Rosen (New Aliyah Party); Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit (Sephardim and Oriental Communities).

Eliezer Kaplan

The scroll

Although Ben-Gurion had told the audience that he was reading from the scroll of independence, he was actually reading from handwritten notes because only the bottom part of the scroll had been finished by artist and calligrapher Otte Wallish by the time of the declaration (he did not complete the entire document until June).^[16] The scroll, which is bound together in three parts, is generally kept in the country's National Archives.

Churchill White Paper

1929 Palestine riots

Passfield white paper

White Paper of 1939

The Recording of the Israel Declaration of Independence

Palestinian Declaration of Independence

Yom Ha'atzmaut

List of international declarations

Herf, Jeffrey. 2021. "." Journal of Cold War Studies 23 (4): 153–180.

The U.S. State Department's Opposition to Zionist Aspirations during the Early Cold War: George F. Kennan and George C. Marshall in 1947–1948

Proclamation of Independence: Official Gazette: Number 1; Tel Aviv, 5 Iyar 5708, 14.5.1948 Page 1

. Archived 16 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine.

U.S. Recognition of de facto government of Israel

. Archived 21 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, exhibition held at the Engel Gallery dealing with the independence declaration in Israeli art.

"Signatorius"

– English translation of text on the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Afairs website