Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel - Milestone Documents

Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

( 1948 )

Further Reading

Articles

  • Friling, Tuvia, and Ilan Troen. “Proclaiming Independence: Five Days in May from Ben-Gurion's Diary.” Israel Studies 3, no. 1 (1998): 170–194.

Books

  • Evron, Boas. Jewish State or Israeli Nation? Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.
  • Gerner, Deborah J. One Land, Two Peoples: The Conflict over Palestine, 2nd ed. Denver, Colo.: Westview Press, 1994.
  • Hertzberg, Arthur, ed. The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader. New York: Atheneum, 1981.
  • Morris, Benny. 1948 and After: Israel and the Palestinians. Oxford, U.K.: Clarendon Press, 1990.
  • Segev, Tom. 1949: The First Israelis. New York: Henry Holt, 1998.
  • ———. One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate. New York: Henry Holt, 2000.
  • Sheffer, Gabriel. Moshe Sharett: Biography of a Political Moderate. New York, Oxford University Press, 1996.

Web Sites

  • Gorali, Moshe. “How God and Democracy Were Left Out.” Haaretz.com Web site. www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=290261&contrassID=2&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y.
  • “Resolution 181 (II): Future Government of Palestine.” United Nations General Assembly Web site. http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/8d0125d24ffa6a5d85256b97004d9b37/7f0af2bd897689b785256c330061d253?OpenDocument.
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British military group during mandate of Palestine in the court of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Library of Congress)

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