Which historical factors contributed to the establishment of the modern state of Israel?
A. The rescue of Jewish troops from France
B. The attempted genocide of European Jews in the Holocaust
C. The successful Reconquista of Spain
D. The failure of the Crusades
B. The attempted genocide of European Jews in the Holocaust
Other factors that also contributed to the establishment of the modern state of Israel include:
- The long-standing desire of the Jewish people for a homeland
- The Balfour Declaration of 1917, in which the British government expressed support for the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine
- The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine in 1947, which called for the partition of Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states
- The Arab-Israeli War of 1948, during which the state of Israel was formally established.