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Events on Saturday 29 November 1947 1
1947UN Partition Plan for Palestine adoptedGeneral Assembly Resolution 181 proposes Jewish and Arab statesOn 29 November 1947, the UN General Assembly voted 33 to 13 to partition Mandatory Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states, with Jerusalem placed under international administration. Jewish leaders accepted the plan and Arab leaders rejected it. Civil war broke out in Palestine the next day.