On May 14, 1948, the Jewish People's Council declared the establishment of the State of Israel, following a prolonged campaign beginning in the late 19th century, when the Zionist movement began working towards creating a homeland for the Jewish people.

It was from about this date that the island began, for the first time, to enjoy a prolonged period of prosperity.

The older, traditional industries of Wallonia, particularly steel industry, began to lose their competitive edge during this period, but the general growth of world prosperity masked this deterioration until the 1973 and 1979 oil price shocks and resultant shifts in international demand sent the economy into a period of prolonged recession.

A prolonged struggle for unionization, which began at Jerome and Windber in northern Somerset County in early April, 1922, extended to Boswell on April 17.

He then returned to Worcester, where he began a prolonged process of recovery.

During Alice in Chains ' hiatus, reports of Staley's addiction began to gain widespread circulation in fan and media communities, in part from changes to his physical condition brought on by prolonged heroin abuse.

As the war prolonged, the more radical Sinn Féin began to grow in strength.

Because of the Belgian Revolution he returned to London, and by showing his first picture at the Royal Academy ( 1833 ) began an unprecedentedly prolonged career as an exhibitor.

Skai TV began broadcasting, after a prolonged battle for open frequencies with EPT and other stations, and soon began to broadcast as a new national network following in the footsteps of the highly-rated Skai radio station in Athens.

Very few expected the crash that began in 1929, and none suspected it would be so drastic or so prolonged.

1983 began with world indoor records in the 800 metres in Cosford, England ( 1: 44. 91, breaking his own 1981 1: 46. 0 ) and the 1, 000 metres ( 2: 18. 58 ) in Oslo but Coe spent much of that year battling health problems, including a prolonged bout with toxoplasmosis.

A prolonged offensive against the Rhine-Ruhr area ( nicknamed " Happy Valley " by aircrew ) began on the night of 5 / 6 March 1943 with the first raid of the Battle of the Ruhr flew RAF Bomber Command's 100, 000th sortie of the Second World War which

In 1957, George F. Bond began the Genesis project at the Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory proving that humans could in fact withstand prolonged exposure to different breathing gases and increased environmental pressures.

The first completed aircraft arrived at RAF Brize Norton in December 2011 ; after a prolonged certification process, it began training flights in April 2012.

The biggest, and most prolonged, platform shoe fad in history began as early as 1967 ( appearing in both advertisements and articles in 1970 issues of Seventeen magazine ), and continued through to 1979 in Europe and Britain.

Writer Peter David reflects that being the subject of " prolonged exposure to Earth " and around Rictor changed things for the warrior, and he began to develop a real romantic capacity.

Moreover, their share of the mortgage market held up in the 1990s despite the fact that the Treasury began to steadily reduce MIRAS, which also worked in favour of interest only mortgages, and despite a prolonged period of relatively low inflation ( something which worked against interest only mortgages ).

Smith began a prolonged run in the midfield ' anchor ' role, with little effectiveness.

He began to find prolonged work difficult, however, suffering from increased bouts of rheumatism and other ailments.

The Shrine went through a prolonged process of development which began in 1918 with the initial proposal to build a Victorian memorial.

In periods of prolonged use, users ' arms began to feel fatigue and / or discomfort.

After the conclusion of the Friday protest, the Belize National Teachers ' Union, led by President Anthony Fuentes, began a prolonged strike action that left the majority of schools closed going into February.

Construction began in 1978, but the process was prolonged due to inadequate funding and political complications.

From the mid 1980s, Algerian cinema began to go through a long period of lethargy where major productions became rare.

The AMD / USD exchange rate depreciated by 6. 1 percent in the first three quarters of 2010 compared to the same period in 2009, before it began to show the expected end-of-the-year appreciation.

After further preparing the craft for the trans-lunar voyage, the crew began the first sleep period of the mission just under fifteen hours after launch.

The Assyrians began to convert to Christianity from Ashurism during the period between the early 1st and 3rd centuries AD.

With him began the long period of ascendancy of the great academies of Babylonia, around the year 220.

It was only in the subsequent period, from 1977 through 1988, that the three firms began to export arms on a large scale.

A number of previously unreleased Haley country-western recordings from the 1946-1950 period began to emerge near the end of Haley's life, some of which were released by the Arzee label, with titles such as " Yodel Your Blues Away " and " Rose of My Heart.

It was during this period that Victoria began to depend on her servant John Brown, a local ghillie from Crathie who became one of her closest companions during her long mourning.

For some this marks the beginning of the " mature " Classical style, where the period of reaction against the complexity of the late Baroque began to be replaced with a period of integration of elements of both Baroque and Classical styles.

During the period of industrialization, food began to be mass produced, mass marketed, and standardized.

The colonial period began when Christopher Columbus reached the eastern coast of Costa Rica on his fourth voyage in 1502.

The Zhou Dynasty began to bow to external and internal pressures in the 8th century BC, and the kingdom eventually broke apart into smaller states, beginning in the Spring and Autumn Period and reaching full expression in the Warring States period.

In this period, local military leaders used by the Zhou began to assert their power and vie for hegemony.

The final expansion in this period began during the reign of Ying Zheng, the king of Qin.

In around 500 BCE, after the Zhou state weakened and China moved into the Spring and Autumn Period, the classic period of Chinese philosophy began ( it is an interesting fact that this date nearly coincides with the emergence of the first Greek philosophers ).

In his commentary on Daniel 8: 14 published in 1831, he stated that the 2, 300-year period should be calculated from 334 BC, the year Alexander the Great began his conquest of the Persian Empire.

When the last period began, all hope of conciliating the Protestants was gone and the Jesuits had become a strong force.

They began to emerge from that dismal period into a new era of increased consistency, however, after the hiring of Marvin Lewis as head coach in 2003.

During this time period, Marker began to travel around the world as a journalist and photographer, a vocation he would continue the rest of his life.

Since the KMT had completed the first step of revolution through seizure of power in 1928, Chiang's rule thus began a period of what his party considered to be " political tutelage " in Sun Yat-sen's name.

During this period, Alston began to teach the 10-year old Jacob Lawrence, whom he strongly influenced.

During this period Pissarro began to understand and appreciate the importance of expressing on canvas the beauties of nature without adulteration.

Toward the end of the Impressionist period, she began to avoid Degas, against whose " wicked tongue " she was unable to defend herself.

However, during the same period, a group of ambitious producers began working outside the boundaries of DOC regulations to make what they believed would be a higher quality style of Chianti.