Choose all the responses that illustrate how the connection to the land of Israel for Jews contributed to the formation of the state. A) The Jews feel they have a historical connection to the land spanning back several thousand years.

B) The atrocities of the Holocaust spotlighted the need for the Jews to have a land to call their own.

C) The Jewish people base their claim to the land on the idea that God promised the land to the patriarch Abraham.

D) The Jewish population took refuge during World War II in Israel as a result it was natural to establish a homeland there.

E) The Jewish population fought for and won the land of Israel during the war and as a result wanted to establish it as the official Jewish state.