On this day exactly 106 years ago, the Balfour Declaration was signed…
The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British government during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small minority Jewish population. The declaration was contained in a letter from the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.
This site is entirely dedicated to this declaration…
Here’s an exclusive interview with lord Rothschild on the Balfour Declaration…