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November 2, 1917: The Balfour Declaration

The Balfour Declaration was the Jewish charter that Herzl failed to obtain from the Ottoman Sultan twenty years earlier. The terms of the declaration were included in the preamble of the Palestine Mandate’s Articles (1922), and given international sanction and political legitimacy by the newly formed League of Nations. Many historians of Zionism and Israel view the Declaration as part of political progression – from Herzl’s Jewish State (1897), to the Articles of the Mandate (1922) to the UN partition Resolution (1947) that proposed the creation of an Arab and Jewish state in Palestine – that ultimately culminated in Israel’s Declaration of Independence (1948).

2 de noviembre de 1917: La Declaración Balfour

El próximo Noviembre se rememora el centenario de la Declaración de Balfour. La Declaración fue una carta privada presentada en Noviembre de 1917, por el Ministro británico de Relaciones Exteriores, Balfour, dirigida a Lord Rothschild, un distinguido miembro de la comunidad judía británica. Cuando fue emitida no era un documento oficial. Se oficializó en 1922 cuando la Liga de las Naciones protocolizó la administración Británica en Palestina. 

Surveys and Polls

• Israel Democracy Institute, "Majority of Israelis Support their Parties Joining a Blue and White Coalition," November 3, 2019
• Israel Democracy Institute, "Conditional Partnership 2019: Relations between Jews and Arabs in Israel," September 22, 2019
• Israel Democracy institute, "Two Weeks to Election Day: IDI Poll Reveals Jewish Israelis are in Favor of a Unity Government," September 2, 2019
• Moshe Dayan Center, "Middle East Demographics to 2030," August 21, 2019
• Israel Democracy Institute, "The Positions of the Israeli Right-Wing," August 12, 2019
• Israel Democracy Institute, "Arab Politics in Israel: Where are they Headed?" July 22, 2019
• Israel Democracy Institute, "How Jewish Israelis Feel Towards Non-Jews and the Current Conversion Process – Shavuot Survey," June 4, 2019
• Pew Study, "A new perspective on Americans’ views of Israelis and Palestinians," April 24, 2019  
• Israel Democracy Institute-Guttman Center for Peace: Monthly Peace Index Surveys