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Medinat Israel—State of Israel

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Abstract

Israel is an independent sovereign republic, established by proclamation on 14 May 1948. For the history of the British Mandate, see The> Statesman’s Year-Book, 1920–49, under Palestine. For the war with Egypt see p. 958.

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S. H. Steinberg Ph.D. (Fellow of the Royal Historical Society)

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© 1958 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

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Steinberg, S.H. (1958). Israel. In: Steinberg, S.H. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270879_44

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