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This Declaration was signed on May 14, 1948, the day that the British Mandate for Palestine expired. Its proclamations include the establishment of a sovereign Jewish state, a plan for provisional government with subsequent plans for a Constitution, a description of political principles, and statements of peace towards its neighboring peoples. The Declaration was a public proclamation rather than a legal instrument, and thus the first legislative act of the new state was to create a Manifesto, which drew some of its content from the Declaration.
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