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September 22, 2016

The Forgotten First Draft of Israel’s Declaration of Independence

It borrowed liberally from America’s.

Since Israel has no formal constitution, its Declaration of Independence occupies a special place as the nation’s foundational document. In its final form, the declaration was the product of extensive wrangling by various parties with different ideas about what sort of country the Jewish state should be. Jodi Rudoren describes the original version:

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September 22, 2016

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