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1917
November
02
Key event
Balfour Declaration
On 2 November 1917 Arthur Balfour assured Lord Rothschild that Britain supported the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.
1918
January
04
The Hogarth message
In January 1918 Commander David Hogarth assured King Hussein at Jeddah that Jewish settlement in Palestine would not infringe the freedom of its inhabitants.