Palestine's Jewish community, which had been less…

Palestine's Jewish community, which had been less than one hundred thousand in 1919, numbers some six hundred thousand by mid-1945.

David Ben-Gurion again leads the Jewish community in its struggle against the British mandate.

The major issue in 1945 is, as it has been throughout the mandate, Jewish immigration to Palestine.

The Yishuv, radicalized by British refusal to open Palestine to unlimited Jewish immigration, is determined to remove all restrictions to Jewish immigration and to establish a Jewish state.

Under Ben-Gurion's direction, the Jewish Agency decides in October 1945 to unite with Jewish dissident groups in a combined rebellion against the British administration in Palestine.