In July 1920, at the
San Remo conference, a
Class "A" League of Nations mandates over Palestine was allocated to the British. On 29 November 1947, the
UN General Assembly adopted a resolution recommending "to the United Kingdom, as the mandatory Power for Palestine, and to all other Members of the United Nations the adoption and implementation, with regard to the future government of Palestine, of the Plan of Partition with Economic Union" as
Resolution 181 (II). The plan contained a proposal to terminate the
British Mandate for Palestine and partition Palestine into "independent Arab and Jewish States and the Special International Regime for the City of Jerusalem." On 14 May 1948, the day on which the British Mandate over Palestine expired, the
Jewish People's Council gathered at the Tel Aviv Museum, and approved a proclamation which declared
the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz Israel, to be known as the State of Israel. On 11 May 1949, Israel was admitted to membership in the United Nations. Early in December 1949, Israel declared Jerusalem as its capital, despite controlling only West Jerusalem, with East Jerusalem (including the Old City) being controlled by Transjordan. == The resolution ==