How was the modern state of Israel created?

Answer 1

The State of Israel came together as the result of Jewish Immigration to the British Mandate of Palestine, Zionist leadership, Jewish militias and political and financial support from the West (primarily Jewish philanthropists). Additionally, after the Holocaust, it became clear to the International Community that the Jews needed a place to exist freely and without fear of persecution where previously this sentiment was confined to radicals in the Jewish community. (Most Jews were anti-Zionist or at least not pro-Zionist before the Holocaust.) As a direct result of the Holocaust, the United Nations convened and proposed the UN Partition of the British Mandate in 1947 which gave Israel a legal claim to statehood in 1948. The Zionists in Mandatory Palestine seized upon this opportunity and declared a State.

The Zionist project existed long before the Holocaust. The first pioneers or Halutzim came to the territory of the British Mandate of Palestine while it was still under Ottoman control -- late 1800s and early 1900s. The Halutzim took it upon themselves to modernize Israel by cultivating the land and using European technology to improve its output and productivity. The Zionist leadership included some like Theodor Herzl, who envisioned the state, to Eliezer ben Yehuda, who developed Modern Hebrew as a functional language, to David Ben Gurion who declared Israel's independence and sovereignty, among many others. There were numerous Jewish militias defending the Halutzim and attacking the British (and eventually the Arabs when conflict started) such as the Palmach, the Haganah, and the Irgun. Finally, without the monetary contributions from families like the Rothschilds, there would have been no way for the nascent pre-governmental and governmental organizations to acquire enough capital to maintain an internal infrastructure.

Answer 2

The Modern State of Israel declared independence on May 14, 1948.

Some individuals claim incorrectly that UNGA Resolution 181 (II), passed on November 29, 1947, "created" a Jewish State (Israel) and an Arab State (Palestine) on the map. This is not the case. What the UN Resolution does provide for is the permission for the different ethno-religious groups in Mandatory Palestine to declare a state. In the case of most mandates, the understanding was that the mandate would eventually become independent as one new state, like Iraq or Syria had. The case of Palestine was therefore unique and needed the permission to deviate from the traditional path of independence. Because of there being two states, provisional borders had to be provided, which is why a map was used, but those borders would only come into play if both sides decided to remain at peace, which, unfortunately, was not the case. There was internecine violence between the Jewish and Arab communities of Mandatory violence from November 30, 1947 on, in what has been termed the Palestinian Civil War of 1947-1948 and is the preliminary part of the Jewish-Arab Engagement of 1947-1949. After six months of fighting, Prime Minister David Ben Gurion made the executive decision to declare independence because it would allow for Israel to negotiate for foreign weapons purchases, even though it resulted in immediate declarations of war by Israel's Arab neighbors, thus expanding the Jewish-Arab Engagement from internecine strife to a "full-on" international war.

Answer 3

1948

Modern Israel was declared a State by its own citizens in 1948 and was given the right to do this by the UN Partition Plan in 1947, but the the State of Israel was not "given" statehood by someone else. They were only provided with the right to do this, which they could have easily not gone through with. The Palestinians, although they also this right, did not declare a state until 1988.

Answer 4

1948.