Proclamation of the Provisional State Council – Document Read during the Declaration of Independence by David ...

Proclamation of the Provisional State Council – Document Read during the Declaration of Independence by David Ben-Gurion – Early Version, Different than the Final Version
Proclamation [no. 1] issued by the Provisional State Council. "Given today, (May 14, 1948)". Hebrew.
The "Proclamation of the Provisional State Council", considered to be the first legal document of the State of Israel, was read by David Ben-Gurion immediately after the Declaration of Independence. It included three short articles, which constituted the legal basis of the new state's authorities: announcing the Provisional State Council as the legislature; annulling the regulations of the 1939 White Paper; and defining the Mandatory law as the basis of the Israeli justice system.
This is an early version of the proclamation (mimeographed typescript) which differs in a number of places from the final version (e.g., instead of "The People's Council announces" it reads"The People's Council enacts"; instead of "is entitled to give" it reads "may give and hereby gives"). In the State Archives there is an additional copy of this version, with handwritten corrections by David Zvi Pinkas, a member of the Provisional State Council and one of the signatories of the Proclamation of Independence (the final version incorporates Pinkas' corrections).
[1] leaf, approx. 29 cm. Stains. Minor creases. Filing holes and minor blemishes to margins.