1942

Ben-Gurion’s activism gains considerable support in USA. In May, a Zionist conference is held in New York City at the Biltmore Hotel. The conference rejects “The White Paper of 1939”, demanded for unrestricted Jewish immigration to Palestine and for it to become a Jewish Commonwealth State. Two leading Zionists, Ben-Gurion and Chaim Weizmann, disagree regarding specification of the Jewish state, with the former pushing for all of Palestine to become a Jewish state, whereas the latter was content with a partition in accordance with the Peel Commission.