Claim: List of ambassadors of the United States to Israel started when Israel declared independence and the United States recognized (a unilateral political act whereby a state acknowledges an act or status of another state or government) it.
Evidence: On the same day, the Jewish Agency, under future Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, declared independence and named the country Israel. On May 14, 1948, the British government unilaterally terminated the mandate. Until 1948 the area that is now the state of Israel had been under British administration as part of the League of Nations/United Nations British Mandate for Palestine.