Trusteeship Plan for Palestine

Security Council Resolution 44 requests the Secretary-General to convoke a special session of the General Assembly on the question of the future government of Palestine.

The plan, finalized three weeks earlier, is put to execution.

A unit of irregulars organized by the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood attacks the Zionist colony of Kfar Darom in Negev.

The Vaad Leumi (National Council), representing the Yishuv (the community of Jewish settlers in Palestine), and the Jewish Agency, being the diplomatic arm of the Zionist Movement and the purported...

Security Council Resolution 46 calls upon all persons and organizations in Palestine, and especially upon the AHC-P and the Jewish Agency, to cease all activities of a military or paramilitary nature.

Security Council Resolution 48 "creates a Truce Commission for Palestine to assist the Security Council in implementing the truce.".

Britain passed legislation preparing the termination of its Mandate in Palestine, scheduled for 15 May 1948.

On the eve of ending its Mandate over Palestine, the King's Privy Council enacts the "Palestine (Revocations) Order in Council, 1948," whose purpose is to revoke, partly or entirely, those British...

The King's Privy Council adopts the "Termination of Jurisdiction in Palestine (Transitional Provisions) Order in Council, 1948," which deals with residual financial matters on the basis of the...

Meeting in Tel Aviv, members of a "Provisional Council of State" sign "the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel." The declaration announces "the establishment of a Jewish state in...