General Assembly

First Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly

12 May 1947

David Ben-Gurion, second from left, Executive Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, speaks on behalf of the establishment of the Jewish National Home in Palestine, at the 11th meeting of Committee 1 (Political and Security) of the First Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly convened at the request of the United Kingdom to consider the Palestine question.
From left to right are: Dr. Jan Papanek, Czechoslovakia; Mr. Ben-Gurion; Dr. Carlos Blanco, Cuba; Francisco de Paula Gutierrez, Costa Rica, and Dr. Alberto Gonzalez Fernandez, Colombia.

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