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a proposal by the United Nations, which recommended a partition of Mandatory Palestine at the end of the British Mandate.
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David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel.
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the day on which the British Mandate over Palestine expired, the Jewish People's Council gathered at the Tel Aviv Museum, and approved a proclamation which declared the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz Israel, to be known as the State of Israel.
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War between Israel and Egypt erupted.
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Sadat and Begin reached an agreement.
