In 1948, the Jews achieved one of the most remarkable and inspiring accomplishments in human history. Take a quick look at Israel today, 68 years later, to know that our little country in an ongoing story of daily miracles!
While Netanyahu won a clear victory in the elections this week, the precise makeup of the new government remains a mystery for now, with several likely scenarios emerging.
According to the Democracy Index, Israel remains the only democracy in the Middle East, where freedom is guaranteed under the law to all, regardless of religion, ethnicity, or national origin.
'When I heard there was a terror attack against children, I...stopped the bloodshed? Why should they burn me? I underwent an interrogation like under ISIS.'
'It is necessary all the time [to stand in] solidarity with Israel. Because if we betray Israel, we betray ourselves,' Czech President Zeman told the Knesset.
Israel's 'solidarity' remains 'the foundation of its success,' declared Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein on the anniversary of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination.
'Like the Jewish people, we have always survived. These experiences inspire us to hold onto our culture and identity,' Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nadia Murad said at the Knesset.
'Many Syrian civilians who are fleeing Assad’s terror are gathering at Israel’s northern border. Paradoxically, this is the safest place for them because we provide them with humanitarian aid,' Edelstein said.
“You have been lighting torches for many years, in your lives… you have illuminated the State of Israel in a great light that will burn for many years after the torches of the ceremony are extinguished,” Knesset Speaker Edelstein told the torch lighters.
While the PA paid terrorists and their families more than $347 million in 2017, it increased terror incentives by $56 million to $403 million for 2018.
"What did we think we would accomplish with this foolishness, which went against all diplomatic, security, moral and Zionist logic?" wondered Speaker Edelstein.
'A person is a murderer even if he committed murder just once in his life, so that's what we can call the army, which murders occasionally and not every day of its life,' Zoabi said.
'Let us not delude ourselves about the chances of signing a peace agreement with the Palestinians in the near future,' Edelstein told a gathering of foreign diplomats.