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From what you said I find this.
I wonder if it was trans-jordan that became israel.

From that indisputable store of truth (;-))Wikipedia:-

The Emirate of Transjordan (Arabic: إمارة شرق الأردن, romanized: Imārat Sharq al-Urdun, lit. 'the emirate east of the Jordan'), officially known as the Amirate of Trans-Jordan, was a British protectorate established on 11 April 1921,[4][1][2] which remained as such until achieving formal independence as the Kingdom of Transjordan in 1946.