U.N. Partition Plan - Project Interchange

U . N . Pa r t i t i o n P l a n ( 1 9 4 7 )
LEBANON
Mediterranean Sea
SYRIA
Safed
Haifa
Caesarea
Tiberias
Sea of
Galilee
Jenin
Nablus
Tel Aviv-Yafo
Ramallah
Jerusalem
Sderot
EGYPT
Jericho
INTERNATIONAL
ZONE
Hebron
Beersheba
Dead Sea
TRANSJORDAN
The proposed
Jewish state
The proposed
Arab state
In 1947, the U.N. General Assembly voted to partition the
British Mandate of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states, with
Jerusalem under U.N. administration. The plan was accepted
by Jewish leaders, but rejected by Arab leaders.
Project Interchange
is an educational
institute of AJC