How we relate to these wars is significant because it expresses how we understand Jewish liberation, its objectives and what policies we are willing to support in our current chapter of Israel's story.
The fifth of Iyar marks not only Israel's victory against England but also the day we fulfilled the collective mitzvah of sovereignty over our homeland for the first time in nearly 2,000 years.
If any one factor forced the British Empire to withdraw from Palestine so that Israel could declare a state, it was the
defiant resistance of the young Jews who gave their lives for their people's freedom.
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