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He had traveled to Germany once, where he visited a displaced-persons camp. He was to meet Party members in one of the small Bavarian towns, and when he arrived at the “camp,” it turned out to be a…
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Natan Shaḥam
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1948
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Ruthka [checks the pile of clothes lying on the table]:You’ve given him enough clothes to last him for a year.
Gita:When one of our members goes away for a while, I don’t want…
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Moshe Shamir
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1948
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Abraham:We only have a few minutes, and we have to decide whether the kibbutz should keep fighting, despite the army’s withdrawal, while we’re surrounded. It must be clear that any decision, one way…
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Yigal Mossinson
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1949
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A State is not handed to a people on a silver platter.
[Chaim Weizmann, first president of Israel]
. . . and the land was silent. The incarnate sun
Flickered languidly
Above the smoldering borders…
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Nathan Alterman
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
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1947
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Across a red horizon evening descends
In the breeze treetops tremble and sway
As we sit around the campfire and tell
Of a Palmach man, Dudu was his name
He was with us on long exhausting treks
We…
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Haim Hefer
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Israel)
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1947
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To Dani and his friends
Behold, our bodies are laid out—a long, long row.
Our faces are altered. Death looks out of our eyes. We do not breathe.
Twilight dwindles and evening falls over the…
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Haim Gouri
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1948
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We left slowly. The night was pale.
In the distance the lights flickered.
And you were all loveliness like your two eyes
With tears cupped in them.
The jackal howled as you went to the vineyard
You…
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Haim Hefer
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1948
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Eretz-Israel [The Land of Israel] was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they first attained to statehood, created cultural…
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Provisional Government of the State of Israel
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Tel Aviv, Israel
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1948
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It is with a feeling of deep reverence and consecration that I rise to open the Constituent Assembly of the State of Israel, the first Knesset Israel of our time in this eternal…
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Chaim Weizmann
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Jerusalem, Israel
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1949