The state of israel was created
a. as a result of tension between arabs and jews after the sinai war
b. by the camp david accords brokered by the united states
c. by the armistice agreement after the yom kippur war
d. following world war ii, after the un created plans to partition palestine

Two years after the end of World War II, the UN voted to
partition Palestine, effective in May 1948.  When the resolution
became effective, the provisional government in the Jewish
partition declared the State of Israel a sovereign nation.  The
governments of the countries in the Arab partition did not accept
the plan or the UN resolution.  They ... plus a few others that were
located far from the partition ... immediately mobilized their armies
and rolled into Israel, to prevent it from becoming a functioning
country.  The State of Israel is now 67 years old.  Sadly, its
"neighbors" still don't accept its existence.

The answer is D, following World War II, after the UN created plans to partition Palestine. The British were previously attempting to come up with a solution to satisfy both Arabs and Jews but failed to do so, so they passed the situation on to the UN. After World War II, many Holocaust survivors fled as refugees to the "land of Israel" and the UN decided to partition Palestine into two states.