1948 Arab-Israeli War

The 1948 Arab-Israeli War, called the "War of Independence" (Hebrew: מלחמת העצמאות) by Israelis and "al Nakba" (Arabic: النكبة, "the catastrophe") by Arabs, was the first in a series of wars in the Arab-Israeli conflict. It established the state of Israel as an independent state, dividing the remaining areas of the British Mandate of Palestine into areas controlled by Egypt and Transjordan.

See also

• 1947 UN Partition Plan
• 1949 Armistice Agreements
• Arab-Israeli conflict
• Balfour Declaration 1917
• British Mandate of Palestine
• Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, May 14, 1948
• Israeli-Palestinian conflict
• List of destroyed villages during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war
• List of Israeli military operation in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war
• List of massacres committed during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war
• Plan Dalet
• Map comparing 1947 partition plan borders with 1949 armistice lines

People involved in the war

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• Yigal Allon
• David Ben-Gurion
• Folke Bernadotte
• Abdel-Qadir al-Husseini
• Glubb Pasha
• Fawzi al-Qawuqji
• David Shaltiel
• Ariel Sharon