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Three members of Haganah, the Jewish Agency self-defence force, escort 12 May 1948 in Haifa three Palestinian Arabs expelled from the city after the Jewish forces took over the harbor 22 April 1948. The 1948-49 first Israeli-Arab War reflected the opposition of the Arab states to the formation of the Jewish state which they considered to be Arab territory. On November 29, 1947, the United Nations' General Assembly voted resolution 181 on the partition of Palestine in two states, one Jewish and one Arab. Jerusalem was to remain under international control. The State of Israel was proclamed on 14 May 1948 by the Jewish National Council and was recognized by the United States and the Soviet Union 15 and 17 May the same year. Arab States of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Iraq crossed the borders from north, east and south with their regular armies 15 May 1948. Agreements signed in 1949 between Israel and the Arab States ended the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and established the armistice lines between Israel and the West Bank, also known as the Green Line, until the 1967 Six-Day War. - France ONLY (Photo by INTERNATIONAL NEWS PHOTOS (INP) / AFP) / France ONLY (Photo by -/INTERNATIONAL NEWS PHOTOS (INP)/AFP via Getty Images)