nov 2, 1917 - Balfour Declaration

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A public letter from British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild, stating that the British government viewed "with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" while also stipulating that nothing should prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities there. It was the first major diplomatic recognition of Zionist aims by a great power and was later incorporated into the British Mandate for Palestine, shaping the legal and political framework for Jewish immigration and settlement over the following decades.

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