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The Jewish National Council (JNC) (Va'ad Le'umi), also known as the Jewish People's Council was the main national institution of the Jewish community (Yishuv
Yishuv

Yishuv or Ha-Yishuv A distinction is sometimes drawn between the Old Yishuv and the New Yishuv.The Old Yishuv refers to all the Jews living there before the aliyah of 1882 by the Zionist movement....
) within the British Mandate of Palestine.

JNC was established in 1920, the same year as the Histadrut
Histadrut

The Histadrut or HaHistadrut HaKlalit shel HaOvdim B'Eretz Yisrael is the Israeli trade union congress.It was founded in December 1920 in Haifa as a Jewish trade union which would also provide services for members such as an employment exchange, sick pay, and consumer benefits....
 and the Haganah
Haganah

Haganah was a Jewish paramilitary organization in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine from 1920 to 1948, which later became the core of the Israel Defense Forces....
 were founded, in order to conduct Jewish communal affairs. Its first chairman was Rabbi
Rabbi

Rabbi , in Judaism, means a religious ?teacher?, or more literally, ?my great one?, when addressing any master. The word rabbi derives from the Hebrew root word , rav, which in biblical Hebrew means ?great?, used in many senses, including the sense of a ?master? and apprentice, whence someone who is a distinguished ?teacher?....
 Abraham Isaac Kook
Abraham Isaac Kook

File:Abraham Isaac Kook 1924.jpgAbraham Isaac Kook was the first Ashkenazi Jews chief rabbi of the British Mandate for Palestine, the founder of the Religious Zionism Yeshiva Merkaz HaRav, Jewish thinker, Halacha, Kabbalah and a renowned Torah scholar....
.

The organization represented almost all major Jewish factions, however a few smaller groups at first objected to the creation of centralized leadership.






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The Jewish National Council (JNC) (Va'ad Le'umi), also known as the Jewish People's Council was the main national institution of the Jewish community (Yishuv
Yishuv

Yishuv or Ha-Yishuv A distinction is sometimes drawn between the Old Yishuv and the New Yishuv.The Old Yishuv refers to all the Jews living there before the aliyah of 1882 by the Zionist movement....
) within the British Mandate of Palestine.

History

The JNC was established in 1920, the same year as the Histadrut
Histadrut

The Histadrut or HaHistadrut HaKlalit shel HaOvdim B'Eretz Yisrael is the Israeli trade union congress.It was founded in December 1920 in Haifa as a Jewish trade union which would also provide services for members such as an employment exchange, sick pay, and consumer benefits....
 and the Haganah
Haganah

Haganah was a Jewish paramilitary organization in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine from 1920 to 1948, which later became the core of the Israel Defense Forces....
 were founded, in order to conduct Jewish communal affairs. Its first chairman was Rabbi
Rabbi

Rabbi , in Judaism, means a religious ?teacher?, or more literally, ?my great one?, when addressing any master. The word rabbi derives from the Hebrew root word , rav, which in biblical Hebrew means ?great?, used in many senses, including the sense of a ?master? and apprentice, whence someone who is a distinguished ?teacher?....
 Abraham Isaac Kook
Abraham Isaac Kook

File:Abraham Isaac Kook 1924.jpgAbraham Isaac Kook was the first Ashkenazi Jews chief rabbi of the British Mandate for Palestine, the founder of the Religious Zionism Yeshiva Merkaz HaRav, Jewish thinker, Halacha, Kabbalah and a renowned Torah scholar....
.

The organization represented almost all major Jewish factions, however a few smaller groups at first objected to the creation of centralized leadership. Notably, Agudat Israel
Agudat Israel

Agudat Israel began as the original political party representing Haredi Judaism in Israel. It was the umbrella party for almost all Haredi Jews in Israel, and before that in the British Mandate of Palestine....
 joined only in 1935. The members of the JNC also participated in meetings of the Zionist General Council.

Role in the establishment of Israel

The Political Department of the JNC was responsible for relations with the Arabs, ties with the Jewish Agency and negotiations with the British government. As the yishuv grew, the JNC adopted more functions, such as education, health care and welfare services, internal defense and security matters, and organized recruitment to the British forces during World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
. In the 1940s, departments for physical training, culture and press and information were added.

The report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry
Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry was a joint United Kingdom and United States attempt in 1946 to agree upon a policy as regards the admission of Jews to Palestine ....
 issued in 1946, stated:
"The Jews have developed, under the aegis of the Jewish Agency and the JNC, a strong and tightly-woven community. There thus exists a virtual Jewish nonterritorial State with its own executive and legislative organs..."


When the State of Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
 was established in 1948, this departmental structure served as a basis for the government ministries. On March 2, 1948, the JNC decided to form an interim government and on May 14, 1948, (the expiration day of the British Mandate), its members gathered at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Tel Aviv Museum of Art

The Tel Aviv Museum of Art was established in 1932 in Tel Aviv, Israel, in the home of Tel Aviv's first mayor, Meir Dizengoff. The building was also the site of the signing of Israel's Declaration of Independence and is now called the Independence Hall ....
 and ratified the proclamation declaring the establishment of the State of Israel. The members of the JNC formed the provisional government
Provisional government of Israel

The provisional government of Israel was the temporary Cabinet of Israel which governed Israel from shortly before Declaration of Independence until the formation of the First government of Israel in March 1949 following the Israeli legislative election, 1949 in January that year....
 of the nascent State of Israel.

Departments

  • The Political Department
  • The Education Department
  • The Health Department
  • The Communities Department
  • The Rabbinate
  • The Social Welfare Department


Presidents

  • 1920-1929 David Yellin
  • 1929-1931 Pinhas Rutenberg
    Pinhas Rutenberg

    Pinhas Rutenberg was a prominent engineer and a businessman, a Russian socialist and a Zionism leader. He played an active role in two Russian revolutions, in Russian Revolution of 1905 and Russian Revolution of 1917....
  • 1939-1944 Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
    Yitzhak Ben-Zvi

    Yitzhak Ben-Zvi was a historian, Labor Zionism leader, and the second and longest-serving President of Israel....
  • 1944-1948 David Remez
    David Remez

    David Remez was an Israeli politician, the country's first Transportation Minister of Israel, and a signatory of the Declaration of Independence ....


See also

  • History of Israel
    History of Israel

    The State of Israel was Declaration of Independence in 1948 after nearly two thousand years of Jewish diaspora, and after 55 years of efforts to create a Jewish homeland ....
  • Jewish Agency for Israel
    Jewish Agency for Israel

    The Jewish Agency for Israel , also known as the Sochnut or JAFI, served as the pre-state Jewish government before the establishment of Israel and later became the organization in charge of immigration and absorption of Jews from the Diaspora....
  • Zionism
    Zionism

    Zionism is the international Jewish political movement that originally supported the reestablishment of a homeland for the Jewish People in Palestine....
  • Henrietta Szold
    Henrietta Szold

    Henrietta Szold was a United States of America Jewish Zionism leader and founder of the Hadassah Women's Organization....


External links

  • at JVL
  • , at the Library of Congress
    Library of Congress

    The Library of Congress is the de facto national library of the United States and the research arm of the United States Congress. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and holds the largest number of books....
  • at MFA