The new National Library of Israel is an impressive 11-story building with six floors above ground and five below. It can accommodate up to 600 readers, who can enter daily and free of charge.
As Israel celebrates its 76th birthday, its people should boast of its achievements and pray for its continued success.
This year, Remembrance Day will be especially poignant, given the loss of more than 1,200 of our brothers and sisters on October 7, and hundreds more in the ensuing and ongoing war against Hamas.
The State of Israel was not born because of the Holocaust, but its birth restored hope to the Jewish people then, and it guarantees us a lifeline now – power over our survival and our destiny.
These two days symbolize the greatest assault of death and evil on life and the greatest outburst of life and renewal ever, both dueling and reinforcing each other with unparalleled force.
‘Remembrance Day and Independence Day will be more meaningful and poignant, as this generation has experienced collective trauma’
And at this very moment, true atzmaut, real independence, means that Israel must advance in defiance of those who seek to emasculate it.
We owe an enormous debt to the brave members of the Hagana. So, on Independence Day, let us sing their praises with gusto.
We survive not just because we remember the past but because we understand that, no matter what, we have a future. Am Yisrael chai!
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