On March 18, 1946, two members of the Anglo-American Committee visited the Technion. The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry into the Affairs of the Land of Israel was a committee tasked with proposing a solution to the question of the Land of Israel and the problem of displaced Jews in Europe. The committee took a journey that started in Washington, passed through London, continued to the displaced persons camps in Europe, to Cairo and Riyadh, and ended in the Land of Israel. Throughout the journey, the committee collected testimonies and opinions from all parties involved in the situation of the Jews in Europe and in the Land of Israel and in the Jewish-Arab conflict concerning the Land of Israel. Despite the differences of opinion, the members of the committee managed to reach common recommendations, which were published on April 30, 1946.
One of the significant recommendations was to cancel the White Paper regulations and the land transfer regulations and to confirm the freedom to sell land regardless of race, sect or creed, while protecting the Arab peasants and farmers. The committee determined that the solution to the problem of the displaced was in the Land of Israel. The committee members who visited the Technion were William Phillips and Frank Aydelotte, who later wrote: “I left Washington pretty strongly anti-Zionist… But when you see at first hand what these Jews have done in Palestine… the greatest creative effort in the modern world. The Arabs are not equal to anything like it and would destroy all that the Jews have done.” Two years after submitting the committee’s recommendations, David Ben Gurion announced the establishment of the State of Israel.