Jews worldwide cried with happiness and offered prayers of thanksgiving when Resolution 181 was approved on November 29, 1947, with 33 votes in favor, 13 against, 10 abstentions, and one absent (see the end of the post for who voted what). The original partition resolution passed by the UN in November 1947 did not call for establishing a state of Israel. It called for dividing Palestine into Independent Arab and Jewish States.

On that very same day, November 29, 1947, the Arab world declared war on the nascent Jewish State, and seventy-five years later, much of the Arab league still refuse to acknowledge the land to exist as a Jewish State.