Partition Plan

Abba Hillel Silver: The American Zionist leader who brought Israel into being

We have the state, but could it have been different if Abba Hillel Silver’s ideas had been embraced?

MAY 8, 1947. Abba Hillel Silver (at table, 4th L) – Zionist Organization of America president and Jewish Agency for Palestine representative – advocates for the Jewish National Home in Palestine.
People rally to mark the one year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada on February 24, 2023.

Jewish group urges halt to ‘Nakba’ exhibit at Canadian Museum of Human Rights

 YITZHAK TREISTER

The New Zealand-Zionist connection: How one family helped shape Israel’s birth

The UN vote, taking place in the main gallery of the Queens Museum

Israeli society must remember its partnership with Diaspora Jewry - opinion


Labeling Jews as 'settler-colonialists' flips the truth - opinion

One only need to recall the UNRWA definition of a Palestinian refugee to realize the basic truth of counter-Palestinian demography claims.

 IDF SOLDIERS stand guard while Palestinians and left-wing activists protest near the Jewish settlement of Elon Moreh, east of Nablus, in 2022

Marking the anniversary of UN Partition Plan - editorial

Looking back on the anniversary of the UN's approval of the Partition Plan on November 29, 1947, during Israel's war against Hamas.

The UN vote, taking place in the main gallery of the Queens Museum

Voices from the Arab press: Partition Lebanon as a solution to Hezbollah

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

 BEIRUT’S ACHRAFIEH Quarter, where Christians form the majority.

November 29: Anti-Israel clichés and the 1947 UN vote - analysis

What matters today is that every year on November 29, one of the latest in vogue narratives about 1947 and Israel’s creation is that it was a “settler colonial” enterprise.

 JEWS CELEBRATE in the streets of Tel Aviv moments after the United Nations voted on November 29, 1947 to partition Palestine into two states.

On This Day: 75 years since UN vote to turn Palestine into Jewish, Arab states

In later years, the date would also become known as the annual International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.

 JEWS CELEBRATE in the streets of Tel Aviv moments after the United Nations voted on November 29, 1947 to partition Palestine into two states.

Did Resolution 181 create the State of Israel? - opinion

Israel’s true legal foundation can be traced to the Balfour Declaration and the international documents that it was incorporated into and that are still in effect today with respect to the West Bank.

 A PALESTINIAN PROTEST, with the participation of the grand mufti of Jerusalem, outside the British Consulate General in east Jerusalem on November 2, the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration.

Brazilian diplomat played a crucial role in Israel's creation - opinion

Oswaldo Aranha supported and steadily negotiated to reach a majority in favor of the 1947 resolution that partitioned the British Mandate of Palestine.

Brazilian diplomat Oswaldo Aranha was highly instrumental in the UN General Assembly’s approval of the partition of Palestine.

Save the two-state solution, recognize Palestine, Abbas says

The UN annually marks Palestinian solidarity on the anniversary of the 1947 vote to partition territory under Resolution 181.

 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gestures during a joint press conference with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken (not pictured), in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 25, 2021.

What really happened at the 1947 UN Palestine partition vote

A note about my father’s account of the night of the UN vote for Partition, November 29, 1947

This Week in History: The UN Partition Plan announced

Educational program established between The Jewish Agency, Truman Library

The program will work to create educational programs focused on strengthening the historic ties between Israel and the United States.

ISRAEL’S FIRST president Chaim Weizmann presents US president Harry Truman with a Torah in 1948.

100 years since San Remo, when Israel became a sovereignty

In San Remo, the League of Nations decided to turn much of the former Ottoman Empire into new nation-states: Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan all emerged from this process, along with Israel.

A MILITARY parade for Independence Day held in Israel during the early 1970s.