one of the members of this group was david ben-gurin, who later became the first prime minister of israel. at this time about 50,000 jews lived in palestine , which means only 10% of the population of half a million muslims and christians in this city. world war i ended in 1918 and the victorious powers prepared to divide according to the saxe-picot agreement. were in the middle east. preparations were made for the 1919 paris peace conference. british prime minister lloyd george and foreign minister arthur balfour represented britain. a delegation from the zionist organization led by haim weizman also participated in this conference. the arab regions under the rule of the ottoman empire were divided between england and france, according to which palestine was the share it was britain. in this meeting, they presented a plan to call the allotted area of ​​palestine the jewish land. in a controversial decision, london named herbert samuel, who was a zionist, as the first british high commissioner for palestine. samuel was determined to make palestine a jewish land by emigrating jews. he pass