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Britain is unable to maintain law and order amongst Arabs and Jews in Palestine and so relinquishes the Mandate. In May of that year, Israel proclaims itself an independent Jewish state. Israel is immediately attacked by it’s surrounding Arab neighbours. Christ Church, the CMJ Church in Jerusalem, is now in territory annexed by Jordan, and the nearby mission hospital is over the border in Israel. This leads to a severe disruption of CMJ’s mission work throughout the 1950’s and 1960’s.