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Signatories To Israel's Declaration Of Independence

Tags: History, Legal Rights, Education, Zionism, Nationalism

We affix our signatures to this proclamation at this session of the provisional council of state, on the soil of the homeland, in the city of Tel-Aviv, on this Sabbath eve, the 5th day of Iyar, 5708 (14th May,1948).

David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister

Daniel Auster, mayor of Jerusalem
Mordekhai Bentov, of HaShomer HaTza'ir
Yitzchak Ben Zvi, future second president of Israel
Eliyahu Berligne, of Hovevei Tzion
Fritz Bernstein, board member of the Jewish Agency 
Rabbi Wolf Gold, founder of Bar-Ilan University
Meir Grabovsky, future chair of the Knesset Foreign Affairs committee
Yitzchak Gruenbaum
Dr. Abraham Granovsky
Eliyahu Dobkin
Meir Wilner-Kovner
Zerach Wahrhaftig
Herzl Vardi
Rachel Cohen
Rabbi Kalman Kahana
Saadia Kobashi
Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Levin
Meir David Loewenstein
Zvi Luria
Golda (Meir) Myerson
Nachum Nir
Zvi Segal
Rabbi Yehuda Leib Hacohen Fishman
David Zvi Pinkas
Aharon Zisling
Moshe Kolodny
Eliezer Kaplan
Abraham Katznelson
Felix Rosenblueth
David Remez
Berl Repetur
Mordekhai Shattner
Ben Zion Sternberg
Bekhor Shitreet
Moshe Shapira
Moshe Shertok

For a closer look at some of these signatories, check out the Israel Story podcast series, Signed, Sealed, Delivered

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Tags: History, Legal Rights, Education, Zionism, Nationalism