Israel and Hamas have been waging war since gunmen from the Palestinian militant group in the Gaza Strip stormed into ...

Israel gained its independence when the Mandate came to an end in May of 1948 with a United Nations-led partitioning plan for the region. In the early 1950s, Egypt blocks Israeli ships from ...

1948, the present National Council shall act as the provisional administration, shall constitute the Provisional Government of the State of Israel. THE STATE OF ISRAEL will be open to the ...

In 1948, unable to solve the problem, Britain withdrew and Jewish leaders declared the creation of the State of Israel. It was intended to be a safe haven for Jews fleeing persecution, as well as ...

The Jewish leadership in Palestine declared the establishment of the State of Israel on 14 May 1948, the moment the British mandate terminated, though without announcing its borders. The following ...

By Lather Farook There was no country called Israel before 1948. It was Palestine which was under Turkey’s Ottoman Empire for ...