Provisional Government of the State of Israel

1948–1949

The new State of Israel was headed by a provisional government for its first year. It remained in place until the first Knesset elections in January 1949 established the first government. 

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Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

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Eretz-Israel [The Land of Israel] was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they first attained to statehood, created cultural…