Maybe in Israel proper, but they remained in the geographical area of in Palestine.
You left out some vital part of this history as under Jordanian occupation in the West Bank, all but one of the 35 synagogues within the Old City of Jerusalem were destroyed; those not completely devastated had been used as hen houses and stables filled with dung-heaps, garbage. and carcasses. The revered Jewish graveyard on the Mount of Olives was in complete disarray with thousands of tombstones broken, some of which were used as building materials for roads and latrines. Large areas of the cemetery were leveled to provide a short-cut to a new hotel. Hundreds of Torah scrolls and thousands of holy books were plundered and burned to ashes.
For the first time in history, Jews were forbidden to settle in the West Bank, the biblical birthplace of David, Solomon, Jesus, John the Baptist, and other Jewish Prophets. And I say all this as an atheist.