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Israel Alert Newsletter
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Yom Haatzmaut EDITION
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4 Iyar 5773
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April 15, 2013
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Yom HaZikaron: Israel's Memorial Day
Yom HaZikaron, Israel's Memorial Day, is a solemn day within the Jewish State.
It is not a day to go to a BBQ, play football or basketball, and enjoy the
outdoors. Instead, it is a day to remember all of ones family and
friends who perished either through terrorism or Israel's various wars.
Since men are drafted into the IDF between the ages of 18 and 21, and women are
also drafted between the ages of 18 and 20, all Israelis understand what it is
like to lose loved ones in armed conflict. It is not like the United States,
where only a minority of the population volunteers to serve in the country's
armed forces.
Between 1920 and 2012, 24,526 Israelis were killed as a result of the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 9,714 perished because of terrorism, between 1948
and 1999, as well as between 2006 and 2012.An additional 1,100 Israelis died during the Second Intifada period, between 2000 and 2005. 6,273 Israelis were vanquished during Israel’s War of Independence, representing one percent of the Jewish population in Israel at that period of time.
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Happy Birthday Israel:
Celebrating Independence Day!
Yom Haatzmaot, which translates into English as Israel Independence
Day, celebrates the founding and establishment of the only Jewish state in the
entire world.
The holiday is celebrated on the 5th day of the Hebrew month Iyyar, which is
the anniversary for when Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, read
out the Israeli Declaration of Independence, saying on behalf of the Jewish
people that they "Hereby declare the establishment of a Jewish state in
the land of Israel to be known as the State of Israel.
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Plant Fruit Trees
in the Land of Israel!
Spring is Already Here - Time to Plant! We will soon see the Fruit
Trees of Israel blossom into magnificent expressions of bounty and
beauty! Please join our project, in partnership with Zo Artzeinu
("this is our Land"), to plant Fruit Trees in Israel - A Very Good Deed!
This is a special opportunity to contribute to the physical and spiritual
beauty of the Land of Israel. Your trees will be planted in southern Israel -
right near the towns that were hit the hardest with the terrorists' rockets of
destruction.
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Israel's War of Independence: Remembering the Losses
On May 14, 1948, David Ben Gurion declared the establishment of Israel, a
Jewish state in the biblical homeland of the Jewish people, Eretz Israel. Immediately following Israel's birth as a nation, five neighboring Arab
nations, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, and Iraq declared war on the fledgling
state and thus began Israel's War of Independence. Although Israel emerged
victorious, the costs were high.
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Since Israel was established as a state, the Israeli nation has yearned to have
peaceful relations with her Arab neighbors. Starting in 1948, the UN called for
the establishment of two states in Eretz Yisrael, one of them Arab and one of
them Jewish. Israel accepted this proposal, while the Arabs rejected it for
they could not agree to share the land.
Yet, even still, despite this Arab rejection of the UN Partition Plan, Israel
continued to seek to have peaceful relations with her Arab neighbors.
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We
Remember: Stories from the Yom Kippur War
On October 6, 1973, Egypt
and Syria decided to launch a surprise coordinated attack upon Israel on Yom
Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. The equivalent of the entire
total forces of NATO in Europe was amassed along Israel's borders, with the
intention of wiping the Jewish state out of existence. At least nine other Arab
states actively aided the Egyptian and Syrian war effort. Israel was completely
unprepared and Israelis paid with their lives for this.
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Tikkun Olam, which translates into English as repairing or fixing the world, is
a concept that the Jewish people strongly believe in. Thus, Israel, as the
world's only Jewish state, has always sought to do every thing in her ability
in order to provide humanitarian assistance to other countries in need.
David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, believed "the principles
of mutual assistance and equality should also constitute the basis for
international relations between people..."
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