FACT CHECK · 1948, THE MANDATE AND PARTITION
Claim: Israel's founders were all European settlers
FALSETHE ANSWER
Saadia Kobashi, a signer of the 1948 Declaration, was born in Yemen and came to Jerusalem in 1909, under the Ottomans. He sat in the Provisional State Council for the Yemenite Association.
SOURCE
Wikipedia: Saadia Kobashi; JVL: signatories of the Declaration
en.wikipedia.org · jewishvirtuallibrary.org
en.wikipedia.org · jewishvirtuallibrary.org
PEOPLE ALSO SAY
- “Yemenite signer”
- “Signer born in yemen”
- “Yemenite jew signed the declaration”
- “Kobashi emigrated to palestine”
- “Kobashi emigrated”
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