How do I Create the Largest, most Powerful Israel Possible?

I can see two things:

1 - Immigration
a| Have the British honor the Balfour Declaration and allow much higher - and unlimited - rates of Jewish immigration
b| The Soviets don't create the Jewish Autonomous Oblast (the JAO) and permit Soviet Jews to emigrate to British Palestine in the hopes of strengthening the Yishuv's socialist, democratic-socialist, and communist parties
c| This culminates in a much larger (maybe 1-2 million by 1939, when in OTL there were just over 545k Jews) Jewish population in Mandate Palestine.

2 - Post-war
a| Israel does much better in the War of Independence / 1948 War, overrunning the Jordanians in Jerusalem and chasing them all the way to the Jordan River. Gaza remains under Egyptian control, but the newly independent Israel now controls Jerusalem.
b| With more secure borders, and less fedayeen raiders [in OTL, Arab and Palestinian fedayeen cross-line* raiders would attack Jews in Israel; in TTL it's harder for them to cross the river], Israel is in a more stable position to encourage Jewish-American immigration**. Post-war pogroms in Eastern Europe encourages more Soviet Jews and surviving Warsaw Pact Jews to head for Israel; while West German reparations helps build Israeli industry and economy.
c| Rising tensions lead to war between Egypt and Syria, but Israel defeats them and controls the Sinai and the Golan Heights.

You might - and I mean might - see Israel invade Lebanon but I don't see them annexing any territory unless there's a prewar POD. Sinai I can see Israel retaining, while Jordan is up in the air. Personally I'd say it's more a 60-40 against Israel controlling it. The only part of Syria I can see Israel holding is the Golan Heights, anything outside of that is not plausible.

*They're armistice lines, not borders, which is why I refer to them as cross-line raiders rather than cross-border raiders. Semantics, really.
**If you want, you could have a worse Red Scare in the United States where people like George Koval, the Rosenbergs, Klaus Fuchs, Morris Cohen, and Samuel Dickstein are uncovered as Soviet spies. This means the US viewing Jewish Americans as a fifth column, leading to higher Jewish emigration from the United States to Israel.

I think it's possible for Israel to get the Gaza strip if they can get the West Bank. This would lead to a much greater Palestinian refugee crisis though, as even more Palestinians will be thrown off of their land. Expect Egypt to have a lot of Palestinians now. As of Jordan, they're going to expect a lot more. That is unless the Israeli army decides to take genocidal measures.

Israel could definitely invade Lebanon and annexing its territory if it could do the same for the Golan Heights. And if all the conditions mentioned in the Immigration and Post-War section happen they can definitely settle the land and expel the inhabitants. I'm not sure if Israel will keep the Sinai peninsula though. But overall, expect a much greater refugee crisis, expect a lot more pissed off Arabs, and hell, expect that more Palestinians might have to settle living elsewhere.

Israel *could* invade and keep Jordan. But settling it would be a challenge. And imagine the refugee fallout there. Saudi Arabia will have some Palestinians. Syria will have even more.
 
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