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News in Pictures | Israel: birth pangs of a nation
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David Ben Gurion became the first Israeli Prime Minister on May 14 1948, one day before the British Mandate over Palestine came to an end. Jewish refugees from Europe land at Nahariya, northern Israel. The influx of refugees ehat began in 1948 would more than double Israel's population in less than a decade

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