The Creation of the State of Israel I am interested in exploring the concept that the increasing level of Jewish immigration to Palestine in the first half of the 20th century is one of the main reasons leading to the creation of the State of Israel in 1948. The cause of the increase in Jewish immigration can be traced back to three factors. One force that contributed to increased immigration and helped push the Jewish population in Palestine to 4% was Zionism. The second force is British imperialism which, following the Balfour Declaration, allowed the Jewish population to rise to 11% during the war and to 17% in 1932. The third force was the persecution of the Jews by the Nazis in the 1930s and the Holocaust that followed an increase in the Jewish population in Palestine to over 36% by 1948. A key force that aided Jewish immigration leading to the creation of Israel was Zionism. Zionism is essentially Jewish nationalism: it is the belief that Jews are a people or a nation, that they have a right to a homeland or state, and that the location of that state by history or heritage is modern Israel. Some Zionists even see it as a divine right granted by God to Moses and his Jewish descendants. Zionism caused the first Jewish immigration which increased the Jewish population in Palestine to 4%. The founder of Zionism is a man called Theodore Herzel in response to the rise of anti-Semitism and the recent Dreyfus case in France. One way in which Zionism influenced Jewish immigration was the creation by world Zionist organizations of the Jewish National Fund. This allowed Jews to purchase land in Palestine paving the way for immigration and settlement in the area. The Zionists then sponsored immigration and bought large quantities of… half paper…inians who wanted to keep Israel so that another event like the Holocaust would not happen to it again. The creation of the State of Israel was caused by the increase in the population and the immigration of the Jewish people to Palestine, which in turn the increase in the population was caused by three factors: Zionism, or Jewish nationalism, British imperialism and their attempts to conquer the Middle East. east and the Nazi persecution of the Jews along with the Holocaust in World War II. The State of Israel was created to create a safe place for Jews, a place where they could feel safe away from all the anti-Semites in the Western world, and so that another event like the Holocaust would not happen to them. , also gave the Jews an identity, a homeland. So in reality the creation of the State of Israel was caused by Jewish nationalism, or the desire of Jews to unite.