Davar [daily Hebrew Newspaper). “Medinath ha-Yehudim Kamah” [“The Jewish State Rises.”]

On November 29th 1947, the General Assembly of the United Nations, meeting in Lake Success, New York, decided by a majority of 33 to 13 votes - to partition Western Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state. This issue of the Hebrew daily Davar, provides the complete breakdown of the vote: for, against, and those countries abstaining. In addition, it offers comprehensive reportage of the proceedings. See Walter Laqueur (Ed.) The Arab-Israeli Reader: A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict (1969) pp.113-22.