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}}</ref> It was to be a "national home for the Jewish people".<ref name="balfour1917">{{REFdocument |title=Balfour Declaration |url=https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q187152#/media/File:Balfour_declaration_unmarked.jpg |contribution= |last=Balfour |first=Arthur |publisher=Foreign Office |format=PDF |date=1917-11-02 |accessdate=2024-04-22}}</ref> David Ben-Gurion affixed the first signature to the <b>Declaration of Independence (1948)</b>.<ref>{{REFdocument |title=The Declaration of Independence |url=https://catalog.archives.gov.il/en/chapter/the-declaration-of-independence/ |contribution= |last= |first= |publisher=Israel State Archives |format= |date=1948-05-14 |accessdate=2024-05-01}}</ref>

The ''Times of Israel'' (2014) reported that the [https://supreme.court.gov.il/sites/en/Pages/home.aspx High Court] overturned a [https://www.gov.il/en/departments/the_rabbinical_courts/govil-landing-page Rabbinical Court ] decision that would have forced a woman to have a boy [[circumcised]]. The High Court stated that the [https://www.gov.il/en/departments/the_rabbinical_courts/govil-landing-page Rabbinical Court] "lacked the jurisdiction to force the procedure."<ref>{{REFnews

The Based on data collected prior to 2016, the percentage of males of all ages [[circumcised]] in Israel (prevalence) is was reported to be 91.7%.,<ref>{{REFweb

}}</ref> however this figure was derived by totaling the number of Jews and Muslims in the population. It overstates the percentage of boys [[circumcised]] by an unknown amount since not all Jews and Muslims circumcise their boys.<ref name="ahituv2021" />