Page "History of Israel" Paragraph 109

On May 14, 1948, on the day in which the British Mandate over Palestine expired, the Jewish People's Council gathered at the Tel Aviv Museum, and approved a proclamation declaring the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz Israel, to be known as the State of Israel.

The 1948 Palestine war entered its second phase with the intervention of the Arab state armies and the beginning of the 1948 Arab – Israeli War.