Iton Rashmi - Hachrazah al Hakamat Medinat Yisrael [“Official Publication: Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel.”]

<<The Official State Announcement by David Ben-Gurion’s Provisional Government Declaring the Establishment and Independence of the State of Israel. THIS COPY SIGNED IN HEBREW BY PRIME MINISTER BEN-GURION ON LAST PAGE.>> “By virtue of our natural and historic rights and on the strength of the Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, we hereby declare the establishment of a Jewish State in Eretz-Israel, to be known as, The State of Israel.” The first issue of the State Official Gazette containing the first publication of the Declaration of Independence of the State of Israel, as read out by David Ben Gurion to the Provisional State Council (Moetzet HaMedinah HaZmanit) on Friday the 14th May, 1948 and broadcast live as the first transmission of the new radio station Kol Yisrael. The text contains a brief history of the historical precedents leading up to the decision to declare Jewish statehood in Palestine, a description of the various authorities supporting the new nation’s establishment and a clear explanation of the temporary government that would lead it. It closes with the names of all members of the Temporary Government, headed by David Ben-Gurion himslef. An essential point of the document is the official renunciation of the notorious exclusionary White Paper of 1939 and an invitation to Jews across the globe for immediate immigration to Israel. Also included in this founding document is a call to the Arab inhabitants of Palestine to participate in the development of the State of Israel as equal citizens. <<State of Israel - Declaration of Independence. 14th May, 1948. Signed by its visionary first Prime Minister.>>