Event · Colonial rule2 November 1917

The Balfour Declaration

وعد بلفور

Exact day2 November 1917

Palestine

Britain declares support for a Jewish national home in Palestine, a policy later incorporated into the Mandate.

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The declaration

The declaration supported a Jewish national home in Palestine while stating that the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities should not be prejudiced.

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The Mandate text incorporated the declaration. Read the cited historical document alongside later accounts of the Mandate period. The date belongs to the declaration, not to the formal start of the Mandate.

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document · United Nations

Mandate text and the Balfour Declaration · UN meeting record

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Dates & remembrance

2 November 1917 · day

11-02 · occurrence
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