70 Years of Israel’s Statehood in Pictures Four years later, on May 14, Zionist Leader David Ben-Gurion announced to the world that the state of Israel would come into existence at midnight after the termination of the mandate and following the 1947 UN Vote on Partition. Previous Next Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 2018-04-21 spiel