The Allied Powers meet at Versailles, near Paris, to negotiate peace treaties with the Central Powers beginning in January 1919.

Louis Marshall, lawyer and president of the American Jewish Committee, advocates treaty provisions that are intended to protect minority rights and are accepted by Romania, Poland, and other eastern European nations.

The Comite des Delegations Juives, formed at the Paris Peace conference and led by Dr. Leo Motzkin, a Zionist, submits two memoranda to the conference, which become part of the international treaties: a guarantee of the civil and cultural rights of Jews in various countries and the historic claim of the Jewish people to Palestine.

Nahum Sokolow leads the Zionist delegation.

At the conference, Amir Faisal, representing the Arabs, and Chaim Weizmann, representing the Zionists, present their cases.

Although Weizmann and Faisal reach a separate agreement on January 3, 1919, pledging the two parties to cordial cooperation, the latter writes a proviso on the document in Arabic that his signature is tied to Allied war pledges regarding Arab independence. (Since these pledges are not to be fulfilled to Arab satisfaction after the war, most Arab leaders and representatives have not considered the Faisal-Weizmann agreement as binding.)

The conferees decide that the conquered Arab provinces will not be restored to Ottoman rule.