The bulk of the Zionist movement—though not…

The bulk of the Zionist movement—though not Begin's terrorist army, the Irgun, and LEHI (the Stern Group), commanded by Shamir—welcomes the partition proposal, which grants to Jews some fifty-five hundred square miles, mostly in the arid Negev, both because it recognizes a Jewish state and because it allots to it fifty-five percent of (west-of-Jordan) Palestine.

The Zionist General Council, although considering the UN plan defective in terms of its expectations from the League of Nations Mandate twenty-five years earlier, states its willingness in principle to accept partition.

Upon Sharett's release from several months of imprisonment, he takes up diplomatic duties, and Goldie Myerson (not yet Golda Meir) officially takes over his former position.