Monday April 15, 2013

I've Been Thinking:

Israel is celebrating 65 years of independence. Sixty-five years ago not even the greatest idealists, the most fervent Zionists, could have imagined the State of Israel as it is today.

Technology, medicine, bio tech, food, music, drama, poetry, film. There is almost no field in which Israel has not had a profound impact or made a generous, vital contribution.

In 1948 the Jewish population of Israel was 600,000. Today, in 2013, the Jewish population is 6,042,000. The total population of Israel today is over 8 million people, There are 1,658,000 Arabs living in Israel, about 20% of the total.

Six million is a special number for the Jewish people. The juxtaposition of the 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust with the six million Jews now living in Israel is enormously important.
It is a watershed.

It can be said that it has taken 65 years to catch up to the loss of Jewish lives at the hands of the Nazis and their mass murder machine. There were many who thought it impossible. But miracles do happen.

Israel at 65 is the proof.

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