The policy begun by this document was changed in 1939 to end immigration by 1944 and reduce it before then in order to ease tensions with the local Arab peoples.
The policy begun by this document was changed in 1939 to end immigration by 1944 and reduce it before then in order to ease tensions with the local Arab peoples. This declaration was first announced in a letter to Lord Rothschild in 1917, and was made mainly as a result of the efforts of Nahum Sokolow and Chaim Weizmann, who were leaders of the Zionist movement in Great Britain. FTP, name this declaration calling for a Jewish homeland in Palestine.          |
The policy begun by this document was changed in 1939 to end immigration by 1944 and reduce it before then in order to ease tensions with the local Arab peoples.
{Balfour} Declaration