CIAO DATE: 03/2015
November 2014
Foreign Policy Research Institute
Like everything else historical, the Palestine Mandate has a history with a chronological beginning, a middle, and, in this case, an end. From a strictly legal point of view, that beginning was September 29, 1923, and the end was midnight, May 14, 1948, putting the middle expanse at just short of 25 years.
Resource link: Origins of the Palestine Mandate [PDF] - 204K