Our aim is twofold. First, after 50 years, we have the opportunity to give the most famous issue of The Palestine Post a deserving place on the Internet. Second, we want to let readers preview and evaluate the new page design scheme that we are planning for our Jerusalem Post Internet Edition. A facsimile of the original front page of the Sunday, May 16, 1948 edition appears below.

The State of Israel was declared on Friday, 14th May. As no newspaper was published on Shabbat, the Declaration of Independence was reported in Sunday's Palestine Post in an edition that was reduced to two printed pages as a result of a national power outage. By that time, hostilities had already broken out, and the early hours of the country's struggle for existence are documented in this issue.

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