sentences:  On 14 May 1948, the day on which the British Mandate over Palestine expired, the Jewish People's Council gathered at the Tel Aviv Museum and approved a proclamation that declared the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz Israel, to be known as the State of Israel.The declaration was made by David Ben-Gurion, the Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization.There were no mention of the borders of the new state other than that it was in Eretz Israel.