1. Creation of Israel

2. Your quiz…
Your quiz over: Sources of conflict, Ottoman Empire collapse, Balfour Declaration, and Creation of Israel
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3. Balfour Declaration
statement issued by the British government in 1917 in favor of a Jewish state located in Palestine

4. Zionism
The movement to return Jews to their ancient homeland in the Middle East
Remember: the Jews have been wanting their own land well before Holocaust

5. The big push for Zionism…
Anti-Semitism – Hatred & discrimination against Jews

6. Holocaust
the systematic plan by German leader Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party to murder all Jews prior and during World War II in Germany and Poland – planned genocide

7. Holocaust during 1940s WWII

8. STATE OF ISRAEL
In 1947, the United Nations approved the partition of Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab.
On May 14, 1948 the state of Israel declared independence and this was followed by a war with the surrounding Arab states, which refused to accept the UN plan.

9. BEFORE and AFTER

10. LAW OF RETURN
states that Jews anywhere in the world can immigrate to Israel and become citizens
What can this lead to??