Pre-State Israel:
The Balfour Declaration

(November 1917)

Pre-State Israel: Table of Contents | Sykes-Picot Agreement | British Mandate

Reference

• Declaration Text
• Commentary on Declaration
• Declaration's Secret Jewish Author
• British Government Anti-Semitism

Official Endorsements

• Arab Leader Emir Faisal (1919)
• U.S. Congress (1922)
• U.S. President Hoover (1932)
• U.S. President Roosevelt (1937)

Important Figures

• Arthur Balfour
• Benjamin Disraeli
• Herbert Louis Samuel
• Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild