Balfour, when he served as foreign minister in 1917, authored the Balfour Declaration, which committed Britain to “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people ...

The declaration, made in 1917, was contained within a letter from Balfour to Lord Rothschild, a British Jewish leader. Among the declaration's lasting consequences was increased support for ...

While serving as foreign secretary, he was the author of the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which gave British backing to the movement. Speaking at the Association of School and College Leaders ...

(JTA) — The British government has rejected a Palestinian request to apologize for the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which led in part to the creation of Israel. The British government sent a ...

Pro-Palestinian Arab protesters deface painting of Lord Balfour, who gave his name to the 1917 declaration on the creation of a Jewish homeland in then-Palestine. (Israel National News' North ...

“The vital caveat in the Balfour Declaration - intended to safeguard ... The British government's pledge, on 2 November 1917, was made in a letter by the then Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour ...