From "House of Israel" would like to congratulate all the people of Israel in 63 years of independence.
Thus was the building outside of Tel Aviv when Israel proclaimed independence
Portrait of Herzl presided over that historic meeting
Chair where he sat Golda Meir. Z "L
Ben Gurion reading the Declaration of Independence. From behind Golda Meir.
In the room where Independence was declared on Israel.
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE OF ISRAEL
Eretz-Israel (Land of Israel) was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here is shaped your spiritual identity, religion and politics. Here fi rst time obtained by a State, created cultural values national and universal significance and contributed to the world the Book of Books.
After the forced exile from their land, the people kept their faith throughout their Dispersion and never ceased to pray and await the return to their land and the restoration in it of their political freedom.
Driven by these historical and traditional ties, Jews strove throughout the generations to settle back into their ancient homeland. In recent decades they returned in droves. Pioneers' mapilim "(immigrants coming to Eretz-Israel in defiance of the law resticted) and defenders, they made deserts bloom, re live the Hebrew language, built villages and towns, and created a thriving community controlling of its own economy and culture, loving peace but knowing defense, real progress bringing the people of all countries, and aspiring to an independent nation.
In the year 5657 (1897), in the order of the spiritual father of the Jewish State Theodore Herzl, the First Zionist Congress convened and proclaimed the right of the Jewish people to national rebirth in its own country
This right was recognized in the Balfour Declaration of November 2, 1917, and reaffirmed in the Mandate of the League of Nations sanctioned the particular historical connection between the Jewish people and Eretz-Israel and the right of the Jewish people to rebuild its National Home.
The catastrophe which recently suffered the Jewish people, the slaughter of millions of Jews in Europe-was another clear demonstration of the urgency of solving this problem of homelessness by re-establishing in Eretz-Israel as a Jewish state, would open wide the doors of their land to give every Jew and the Jewish people the status of full recognition to a member of the Commonwealth of nations.
Nazi Holocaust survivors in Europe, as well as Jews from other parts of the world, continued to migrate to Erezt-Israel overcoming the difficulties, restrictions and dangers, and never ceased to assert their right to a dignified, free and honest in their national land. During the Second World War, the Jewish community in this country was fully involved in the struggle between nations defending freedom, peace and love against the evils of the Nazi forces, and the blood of its soldiers and its military effort earned the right to be among the founding peoples of the United Nations.
On 29 November 1947, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution proclaiming the establishment of the Jewish state-Israel Erezt, the General Assembly requested the adoption by the inhabitants of Eretz-Israel of all the measures necessary for the implementation of this resolution. The recognition of the Jewish people's right to settle in his state, made by the United Nations, is irrevocable.
The law is the natural right of the Jewish people to be masters of their own fate, like all nations, in their own sovereign state.
In accordance, we members of the People's Council, representatives of the Jewish community of Eretz-Israel and the Zionist movement are gathered here in the final day of the British Mandate over Eretz-Israel and, by virtue of our natural rights and historical and the legal force of the decision of the General Assembly of the United Nations hereby declare the establishment of the Jewish State in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel.
declare that with effect from the time of termination of the Mandate which will be tonight, the eve of the Sabbath, 6 Iyas 5708 (May 15, 1948), before the establishment of the state authorities regularly elected in accordance with the Constitution to be adopted by the elected Constituent Assembly not later than October 1, 1948, the People's Council will act as a Provisional Council of State, and its executive body, the Administration Ombudsman, will be the Provisional Government of the Jewish state called Israel.
The State of Israel will be open for Jewish immigration and the collection of exiles, encouraged the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants, will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants, regardless of religion, race or sex; guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture, protect the holy places of all religions and be faithful to principles the United Nations Charter.
The State of Israel is prepared to cooperate with the agencies and representatives of the United Nations to run the General Assembly resolution of November 29, 1947, and will take all necessary measures for the economic union of all of Eretz- Israel
appeal to the United Nations to assist the Jewish people in building their state and to receive the State of Israel in the UN committee. We call
in the middle attack launched against us for months to the Arab inhabitants of Israel to preserve peace and participate in the construction of the state, ciudanía bases full and equal representation for all its provisional and permanent institutions.
extend our hand to all neighboring states and their people and offer peace and good relations, and appeal to them to establish areas of cooperation and mutual assistance with the Jewish people established in their own land. The State of Israel is prepared to do everything possible in a common effort to advance the Middle East.
appeal to all Jewish people in the Diaspora to collaborate together with the Jews of Eretz-Israel in the work of immigration and construction and who are united with them in the great struggle for the realization of the dream of Israel's redemption time.
Putting our trust in the Almighty sign this declaration at this session of the Provisional State Council in the land of our home in the city of Tel-Aviv, on the eve of the Sabbath on 5 Iyar, 5708 (14 May 1948).
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