13 May 2018 | Author/Destination: Levant / Levante | Rubric: General
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Independence Hall in Tel Aviv © Deror avi
The
Israeli Declaration of Independence took place on May 14, 1948 or on 5 Iyar 5708, according to the
Hebrew calendar, in the
Independence Hall of the Israeli
de jure capital city
Tel Aviv, mostly as a direct result of the
Holocaust and the
Évian Conference. On the same day, the British
Mandatory Palestine ended. The Independence Day (
Hebrew “Jom haAtzma’ut” for “Day of Independence”) was introduced in the following year 1949 as a reminder of the proclamation of the state by
David Ben-Gurion.
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