{"id":5098,"date":"2014-05-15T14:36:24","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T20:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=5098"},"modified":"2014-05-15T14:36:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T20:36:24","slug":"this-week-in-the-war-11-17-may-1942-the-biltmore-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=5098","title":{"rendered":"This week in the War, 11-17 May 1942: The Biltmore Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

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David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel [Public domain, wiki]<\/p><\/div>This week in the war, on 11 May 1942, an extraordinary six-day conference held at the Biltmore Hotel in New York City came to an end. The conference laid out a program, called the Biltmore Program<\/em>, whose purpose was to lay the groundwork for the creation of the state of Israel.<\/p>\n

Over five hundred delegates attended, most notably, David Ben-Gurion, who was then the Chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive and would later become the first prime minister of Israel.<\/p>\n

The delegates reaffirmed their support of the Balfour Declaration of 1917, a letter written by the then British Foreign Secretary, Arthur James Balfour, to Britain’s Jewish community leader Baron Rothschild, indicating the British Government’s support in ‘establishing in Palestine a national home for the Jewish people.’ The delegates at the Biltmore also emphasized the need for cooperation with their Arab neighbours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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