A crowd waiting for Chaim Weizmann,first President of Irael. Men, women and children wave flags of State of Israel and several American flags. President and Mrs. Weizmann emerging from Union Station in Washington, accompanied by crowd of well wishers. A large American flag and a District of Columbia flag are carried in the crowd. A crowd of photographers await them on the sidewalk. District of Columbia representative formally welcomes the Weizmanns.They enter a 1948 Cadillac limousine, and drive away from Union Station, with a Secret Service agent riding on the right running board. Another car and motocycle policeman move in front of them. Spectators wave Israeli flags. President Weizmann of Israel being assisted as he leaves White House and enters automobile. President Weizmann seated in a garden, conducts a news conference, surrounded by reporters and photographers.
Distant view of a British flag over a building in the old city of Jerusalem. Arab with a gun looks over wall. View of Mosque of Omar (Ha Notsrim Street, Old City, Jerusalem, Israel) through a window grill. Arab with a gun aims through window. Rooftops of Jerusalem. Military jeeps moves in streets of the city. Various views of old city including Temple Mount, Dome of the Rock, Tower of David, or David's Citadel.
Crowd gathered around 6:00pm on May 14, 1948, outside the Washington DC office of the Jewish Agency, at 2210 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington DC. View of happy, waving crowd from camera position in an upstairs window. View on building steps of dignitaries including Eliahu Elath (later the first Israeli Ambassador to the United States), Rabbi Novak of the Washington Mizrachi leaders, Sumner Welles, and New York Congressman Sol Bloom. View of a boy (Oren Zinder, son of Zvi and Honda Zinder) standing in the upstairs window, preparing to unfurl the flag of Israel in front of the building. View of the flag in position, and the crowd waving.
Men looking at the wreckage of a bombed out building during the Arab-Israeli war. Israeli Defense Forces soldiers (IDF) with wreckage of Egyptian plane. Views of street. Unexploded bomb found. Egyptian insignia on wreckage of plane. Troops digging trenches. Military plane overhead. Soldiers with wreckage of plane. View of a captured tank. Israeli soldiers on a lookout tower. A damaged building. Wrecked military equipment. Military truck with Israeli 'Star of David' and medical corps insignia. Plane overhead. Body is carried out from a building as soldiers try to put out the fire. Israeli soldier near Egyptian plane on ground. Men keeping watch in a high watch tower.
Large crowd gathers in front of City Hall in New York City, to celebrate the founding of the State of Israel. People seated in park area and standing behind police barricades. Flag of Israel flies from City Hall. Crowd stands and applauds for Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. New York City mounted police in parade along 5th Avenue. The horses legs are taped in white. They are followed in parade by New York City patrolmen on foot. Honor guard in parade carry flags of United States, Israel, and City of New York and a flag with cluster of stars on dark field in canton, with three dark stripes and two white stripes in the field.
State of Israel formed. Film opens with camera panning down the Abdul Hamid Clock Tower in Haifa, Israel. At the base it focuses on Haganah fighters laying out ammunition and explosives. Closeup of a case of hand grenades and many loose rifle cartridges. Shot of the clock tower from different viewpoint. Men gathering at its base. Damaged buildings near waterfront. Armed men scrambling down the pile of rubble near one building. Closeup of one carrying a Sten gun. Views of deserted arab neighborhood. A cat walking along deserted sidewalk.