Pretty much they had more land to take in and govern & work with. at the time they didn't have much land and to take that on and expand was a really big leap, they had to govern it, get people to move out there, start new things there & determine laws & whatever & it was kinda a mess
On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel. U.S. President Harry S. Truman recognized the new nation on the same day.
