The British were formally awarded the mandate to govern the region in 1922 . The non-Jewish Palestinians revolted in 1920 , 1929 , and 1936 . In 1947 , following World War II and The Holocaust , the British Government announced its desire to terminate the Mandate , and the United Nations General Assembly adopted in November 1947 a Resolution 181 ( II ) recommending partition into an Arab state , a Jewish state and the Special International Regime for the City of Jerusalem . The Jewish leadership accepted the proposal , but the Arab Higher Committee rejected it ; a civil war began immediately after the Resolution 's adoption . The State of Israel was declared in May 1948
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