The termination of the Mandate for Palestine, approved by the League of Nations in 1922, and administered by Britain, on 15 May 1948.

A proposal put forth by US President Harry S.

A resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 29 November 1947 by a vote of 33 For (including the United States and the Soviet Union), 13 Against, 10 Abstaining (including Britain), 1 Absent.

Known in Israel as the War of Independence, and in the Arab World as the Nakba (Catastrophe).

A statement made by Soviet diplomat S.

The final report issued by the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) on 3 September 1947.

Reference map of the destinations to which Palestinian refugees arrived following the 1948 War.

A resolution adopted by an extended conference of the Jewish Agency Executive in Paris, France, on 5 August 1946.

A plan for the partition of Palestine, drawn up by an expert committee led by British Deputy PM Herbert Morrison and American diplomat Henry Grady.

A proposal for the partition of Palestine put forth by the Jewish Agency Executive in July 1946 in response to the work of the Anglo-American Committee and parallel to the Morrison-Grady Scheme.

A technical agreement concluded between the heads of the Survey Departments of Mandatory Palestine and Transjordan, demarcating the border between the two territories near the Gulf of Aqaba, and resolving an ambiguity in the 1922 Transjordan Memorandum that separated them.

The final report by the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine, established at the initiative of British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin, and composed of six British and six American members.

A set of regulations enacted by the High Commissioner for Palestine, under his authority under the Palestine (Defence) Order in Council, 1937, and published in the Palestine Gazette on 27 September 1945.

A program adopted at an “Extraordinary Zionist Conference” at the Biltmore Hotel, New York, NY, on 11 May 1942.

Regulations enacted by the British High Commissioner for Palestine, Harold MacMichael, on 28 February 1940.