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===End of British Mandate===
[[File:Declaration of State of Israel 1948 2.jpg|thumb|right|David Ben-Gurion proclaiming independence beneath a large portrait of [[Theodor Herzl]], founder of modern [[Zionism]]]]
On 29 November 1947, the [[General Assembly of the United Nations]] adopted a resolution recommending ''the adoption and implementation'' of a [[United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine|plan to partition Palestine]] into "Independent Arab and Jewish States" and a "Special International Regime for the City of Jerusalem" administered by the United Nations (Resolution 181 (II)).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/0/7f0af2bd897689b785256c330061d253 |title=Resolution 181 (II). Future government of Palestine: 29 November 1947: Retrieved 22 March 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120524094913/http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/0/7f0af2bd897689b785256c330061d253 |archivedate=24 May 2012 |df=dmy }}</ref> The Arab parties all rejected the proposed partition plan. Britain declared that the Mandate was to end on 15 May 1948. On 14 May 1948, [[David Ben-Gurion]], in a ceremony in [[Tel Aviv]], declared "the establishment of a Jewish state in [[Eretz-Israel]], to be known as the State of Israel."<ref>[http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Peace+Process/Guide+to+the+Peace+Process/Declaration+of+Establishment+of+State+of+Israel.htm Declaration of Establishment of State of Israel: 14 May 1948: Retrieved 22 March 2012]</ref>
Eliahu Epstein, Agent, Provisional Government of Israel said in a letter to President Truman seeking recognition from the U.S government, sent immediately after the Declaration of 14 May 1948, "that the state of Israel has been proclaimed as an independent republic within frontiers approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations in its Resolution of November 29, 1947",<ref>[http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/israel/large/documents/newPDF/49.pdf#zoom=100: Letter From the Agent of the Provisional Government of Israel to the President of the United States: May 15, 1948: Harry S. Truman Library & Museum: The Recognition of the State of Israel: Retrieved 30 December 2014]</ref> (ie., within the area designated as the “Jewish state” in the partition plan).
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