Question

In 1917, in a statement called the Balfour Declaration, the right of the Jewish people to have a national home in the land of Israel was recognized. The statement was issued by the government of

Answer 1

The United Kingdom's foreign secretary Lord Arthur James Balfour  issued it to Lord Rothschild. It was delivered to Chaim Weizmann, a Zionist activist, expressing British support for a Jewish "national home" in Palestine