 Great Britain informed the United Nations (UN) on February 14,
1947, that it would no longer administer the Mandate for Palestine.This prompted the UN General Assembly to recommend partition of Palestine into
independent Jewish and Arab states on November 29, 1947.Some
28,000 Jews were still interned in the Cyprus camps when the
Mandate was dissolved, partition was enacted, and the independent
Jewish State of Israel was established at midnight Palestinian time
on May 14, 1948.