Did it really hang on one vote? The resolution establishing the state of Israel.

On November 29, 1947, a dramatic U.N. vote determined the partition of Palestine into two independent states, and the internationalization of Jerusalem. The Arabs made it clear that they would declare war immediately upon the creation of a Jewish state. Between the U.N. partition resolution and Israel's Declaration of Independence on May 14, 1948, the Arabs of Palestine had already launched a low-grade ground war against the Yishuv, the Jewish inhabitants of Palestine. On April 6, 1948, the Zionist General Council, convened in Tel-Aviv by the Jewish Agency, judged the time appropr