The beginning of a new series investigating how the Israeli Declaration of Independence came about, and what the text reveals about the country it brought into being.
David Ben-Gurion reading the Declaration of Independence on May 14, 1948 during the ceremony founding the state of Israel. Zoltan Kluger/GPO via Getty Images.
“We hereby declare the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel.”
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