December 20. On this date in 1948, "The Palestine Post" carried an article titled "Baha'i Foretold Israel's Future" stating "Shoghy eff. Rabbani, the 'Guardian' of the Bahai Cause, in a letter to Mr. Ben Gurion last week pledged the allegiance of the Bahais in Israel to the Government. Shoghi eff. is not just the leader of the 350 Persian-born Bahais of Haifa and Acre, but the World Guardian of the Bahai Faith, which, he declares, has tens of millions of adherents from Alaska to the Argentine, from Norway to South Africa, and from Turkey to Japan."

December 20. On this date in 1948, "The Palestine Post" carried an article titled "Baha'i Foretold Israel's Future" stating "Shoghy eff. Rabbani, the 'Guardian' of the Bahai Cause, in a letter to Mr. Ben Gurion last week pledged the allegiance of the Bahais in Israel to the Government. Shoghi eff. is not just the leader of the 350 Persian-born Bahais of Haifa and Acre, but the World Guardian of the Bahai Faith, which, he declares, has tens of millions of adherents from Alaska to the Argentine, from Norway to South Africa, and from Turkey to Japan."