Avraham Katznelson
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Avraham Katznelson, later known as Avraham Nissan, was a physician and Zionist political figure in Mandate Palestine. He was a signatory of the Israeli Declaration of Independence.
Katznelson in 1946
The Israeli delegation to the United Nations in 1950; from right: Gideon Rafael (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Avraham Katznelson (Ministry of Health), Abba Eban, Jacob Robinson (lawyer) and Arthur Lourie (Israeli Consul in New York and Deputy Head of Delegation)
The Israeli Declaration of Independence, formally the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, was proclaimed at the Tel Aviv Museum on 14 May 1948, at the end of the civil war phase a
Avraham Katznelson
…קצנלסון; 1888 – 18 May 1956), later known as Avraham Nissan, was a physician and Zionist political figure in Mandate Palestine. He was a signatory of the Israeli Declaration of Independence. Katznelson was born in Bobruisk in the Russian Empire (now in Belarus) to Nissan HaCohen and Zelda Helena (née Rozovsky). He was the brother of Yosef…
Ben-Gurion proclaiming the declaration of independence
The UN partition plan
On the day of its proclamation, Eliahu Epstein wrote to Harry S. Truman that the state had been proclaimed "within the frontiers approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations in its Resolution of November 29, 1947".
A celebratory crowd outside the Tel Aviv Museum, located in 16 Rothschild Boulevard, to hear the Declaration