Balfour Declaration
Letter from British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild, stating British support for 'a national home for the Jewish people' in Palestine, then an Ottoman province. A milestone of the Zionist movement and a foundation of the later State of Israel.
Entities involved
United Kingdom
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People
Chaim Weizmann
Zionist leader whose lobbying helped secure the declaration