WE APPEAL-in the very midst of the onslaught launched against us now for months-to the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to preserve peace and participate in the upbuilding of the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship and due representation in all its provisional and permanent institutions.

         WE EXTEND our hand to all neighbouring states and their peoples in an offer of peace and good neighbourliness, and appeal to them to establish bonds of cooperation and mutual help with the sovereign Jewish people settled in its own land. The State of Israel is prepared to do its share in a common effort for the advancement of the entire Middle East.

         WE APPEAL to the Jewish people throughout the Diaspora to rally round the Jews of Eretz-Israel in the tasks of immigration and upbuilding and to stand by them in the great struggle for the realization of the age-old dream-the redemption of Israel.

         PLACING OUR TRUST IN THE ALMIGHTY, WE AFFIX OUR SIGNATURES TO THIS PROCLAMATION AT THIS SESSION OF THE PROVISIONAL COUNCIL OF STATE, ON THE SOIL OF THE HOMELAND, IN THE CITY OF TEL-AVIV, ON THIS SABBATH EVE, THE 5TH DAY OF IYAR, 5708 (14TH MAY, 1948).

David Ben-Gurion

Daniel Auster	Rachel Cohen	David Zvi Pinkas
Mordekhai Bentov	Rabbi Kalman	Aharon Zisling
Yitzchak Ben ZVl	Kahana	Moshe Kolodny
Eliyahu Berligne	Saadia Kobashi	Eliezer Kaplan
Fritz Bernstein	Rabbi Yitzchak	Abraham Katznelson
Rabbi Wolf Gold	Meir Levin	Felix Rosenblueth
Meir Grabovsky	Meir David	David Remez
Yitzchak Gruenbaum	Loewenstein	BerI Repetur
Dr. Abraham	Zvi Luria	Mordekhai Shattner
Granovsky	Golda Myerson	Ben Zion Sternberg
Eliyahu Dobkin	Nachum Nir	Bekhor Shitreet
Meir Wilner-Kovner	Zvi Segal	Moshe Shapira
Zerach Wahrhaftig	Rabbi Yehuda Leib	Moshe Shertok
Herzl Vardi	Hacohen Fishman