The three Yishuvs, returns to Israel, in the late 19th and early 20th century were a great support for the movement to gain a homeland for the Jewish people.

Edmund James de Rothchild

Field Marshal Edmund Allenby

HaShomer Watchmen

Leah Abused

The Zion Mule Corps

Ze'ev Jabotinsky

Ze'ev Jabotinsky

David Ben-Gurion

Theodore Hertzl

Prime Minister David Lloyd George

The post-WWI era saw increased Arab resistance to the formation of Israel exacerbated by Britain's conflicting promises to both peoples.

David Ben-Gurion

Israel Shochat

Ze'ev Jabotinsky

Chaim Weizman, first President of Israel

Golda Meir

Abba Achimeir, founder of the B'rit Habiryonim

Israel was abandoned by the British ending the Mandatory Palestine mandate but managed to unilaterally declare themselves a state in 1948.