Supermoon in Israel. Credit: Sergei25/Shutterstock.com On 14 May 1948, the day before the expiration of the British Mandate, David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, declared "the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel". On the night of Sunday November 13, the Moon will be the closest to Earth it's been since January 1948 and will appear