Why did Israel become an independent country?

Answer 1

Jewish people lived in biblical Israel, with a constant presence to the present day. The Bible indicates that Jewish sovereignty in the area ended about 2000 years ago, with the Roman conquest. Getting closer to the present day, a portion of that land was under British mandatory rule when the British mandate ended in 1948. At that time, the Jewish population there declared independence as the State of Israel over an even smaller portion of that land, which had been set aside for a Jewish state in the 1947 United Nations partition vote. The Jewish people then had a state of their own after having been denied one for 2000 years.

Answer 2

After the British withdrew from the area which was previously the Ottoman Empire (following the end of WWI), they left the area under no ones' control and created a power vacuum. Israel declared independence following this withdrawal inside the area alotted to them by the UN partition plan which was rejected by the Arabs. Following this Declaration, the state (as established by the UN) was attacked by all neighboring Arab countries (Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and the Palestinians). Israel fought back against the Arab armies and became what it is today.

Answer 3

It became independent through a Declaration of Independence and a military defense of the land.