WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -On November 29, 1947, the partition plan was passed by the U.N. General Assembly. President Truman recognized the provisional Jewish government as the de facto authority of the Jewish State on May 14, 1948.

Detailed explanation-2: -Israel is a member of the United Nations (UN) and many agencies within it including the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

Detailed explanation-3: -United Nations Resolution 181, resolution passed by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in 1947 that called for the partition of Palestine into Arab and Jewish states, with the city of Jerusalem as a corpus separatum (Latin: “separate entity”) to be governed by a special international regime.

Detailed explanation-4: -After looking at alternatives, the UN proposed terminating the Mandate and partitioning Palestine into two independent States, one Palestinian Arab and the other Jewish, with Jerusalem internationalized (Resolution 181 (II) of 1947).

Detailed explanation-5: -On May 14, 1948, on the day in which the British Mandate over a Palestine expired, the Jewish People’s Council gathered at the Tel Aviv Museum, and approved the following proclamation, declaring the establishment of the State of Israel.