Tag Archives: Israeli Independence Day
Our hope is not yet lost (עוד לא אבדה תקוותנו)
Today is a most special day. 70 years ago (the Hebrew date, which is the 5th of Iyar, is the one that counts), the State of Israel was created. A dream that had been unfulfilled for almost 2000 years.
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Happy Birthday
It was still a teenager. 19 going on 20. That was the first time I visited Israel. I was there around the time of the the 6 Day War. The first place I visited was Jerusalem. And, my first destination in Jerusalem was the Old City of Jerusalem. (You know, that was the “international City” that barred Jews from entry from 1948 until the time it became part of Israel. Where the gravestones from the major Jewish cemetery outside the walls were looted to finish the construction of the Intercontinental Hotel, then owned by King Hussein.) It was my desire to walk up to what was then called the Wailing Wall (it is now known as the Western Wall).