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April 14th, 2021 at sundown is Israel’s Yom Ha’atzmaut (day of independence), the 73rd birthday (by the Hebrew calendar) of the modern State of Israel. On this day, 73 years ago, the world saw an actual miracle from God. After almost two millennia, the Jewish people were able to re-establish their political and geographic nation-state in their ancestral homeland as Israel declared its independence. After the Bar Kochba revolt in 135 CE, the Romans punished the Judeans (Jews) for revolting for the second time in sixty years. To poke those rebellious Judeans in the eye, the Romans changed the name...

Yom HaAtzmaut 2014 begins at sundown, Monday, May 5th, and ends at sundown on Tuesday, May 6th

As Independence Day celebrations were winding down Tuesday night, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu made a guest appearance on Channel 2's left-wing satire show Eretz Nehederet. One of the final questions that the show's host Eyal Kitzis asked the premier was how he would like to be remembered after he leaves office. Netanyahu thought a moment and said, "I'd like to be remembered as the leader who preserved Israel's security." On the face of it, Netanyahu's stated aspiration might seem dull. In a year he'll be the longest-serving prime minister in the state's history, and all he wants is to...

This year Yom Ha'atzmaut (the Israeli Independence Day Celebration) began on the evening of April 15 and ended on the evening of April 16. During the evening of April 15 in Israel, it was afternoon in Boston. The bombing occured at about 2:50 PM local time.

WE HEREBY PROCLAIM the establishment of the Jewish State in Palestine, to be call Medinath Yisrael (The State of Israel). With that, what was a dream for over two thousand years was now a reality. God had had lead us back to the promised land. The Egyptian Bombing attacks began a few hours later. David Ben Gurion's address lasted less than two minutes But his words were full of peace and hope. He promised us that the two millennium of wandering was over, a State where Jews all across the world would be able to call home. Israel's 61th birthday...