Yom Hamedinah - The Day of the State. A Joint Publication of Israel’s Newspapers.

(ISRAEL, STATE OF)

4pm, Friday, 14th May

(Tel Aviv)

1948

Text entirely in English. Single broadside sheet, printed on both sides. Photographic illustrations.

EXCEPTIONALLY RARE. No other copy located. On May 14, 1948, “the last day of foreign rule,” the Hebrew newspapers in Palestine published a joint issue titled Yom HaMedinah, “The Day of the State,” announcing the establishment of the State of Israel. The Hebrew language version of this famed newspaper is well known, offered here is the highly scarce English language issue of the historic publication. It contains the text of the Declaration of Independence and states that the regulations of the 1939 White Paper, with its restrictions on Jewish immigration and land transfers, are no longer valid. The second page carries sixteen encapsulated articles concerning the events of the day, along with a bold public announcement “By Special Permission of the Chief Rabbinate: Uninterrupted Mobilization All Throughout Shabbat.”