Answer: They wanted to create a Jewish homeland for refugees and survivors of the Holocaust
Explanation: Before the Holocaust happened, many Jews lived in Poland, Nazi Germany, Russia, and wherever else. When Adolf Hitler got arrested in 1925 for trying to bring the Nazi party to power, he wrote a book titled "Mein Kampf," which in summary was about Adolf's experiences and his beliefs that the Jews were responsible for all of the world's problems, and the Aryan Germans were the superior race. This is known as supremacism. When WWII first broke out in 1939, Hitler and Stalin invaded Poland, which at the time had one of the biggest Jew populations. When Hitler finished invading Poland with the USSR, Hitler took all of the Jews and put them into concentration camps, which was known to be the Holocaust. After the war ended, many Jews were left without a home due to Hitler's regime, war crimes, or suffered discrimination from other countries. So, in 1948, the United Nations (founded 3 years prior) wanted to make a country/homeland for the Jews so they would be safe from mainland Europe or any possible threats/invasions. However, Palestine was made around the same time, and having land disputes over the past century has put them in a global stalemate.