public statement written by Arthur Balfour issued by the British government in 1917 in support of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine then an Ottoman region
The Balfour Declaration was a 1917 statement by British official Arthur Balfour expressing British government support for creating a Jewish homeland in Palestine, which was then controlled by the Ottoman Empire. It matters because it became an important reference point in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the eventual establishment of the State of Israel.
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Rabbinic period and the Middle Ages
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