We honors the memory of the six million Jews on Nissan 27th, a week after the seventh day of Passover, and a week before Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day for Israel's fallen soldiers).
Before 1939 they were 15 million Jews in the world. After the war (W.W.II) 1945 only 9 million remained.
On Yom HaShoah we remined ourselves that like Hamman in Purim, Antiyochoos in Chanukkah We more recently,(W.W.II.)was a man named Hittler in Germany who also wanted to destroy and kill all the jewish people
unfortunatly, Hitler had more than 6 million jewish man woman and children put to death. people of other nationalitys, people that did not fit the "perfect" healthy Blond blue eyed look.
All people sick and disabled people of "wrong-Nationalities",other races and color.
The reassons being: "just because hitler the natzi did not tolarate saing: "they were not perfect".
We must Never forget. Forgive, but NEVER forget
Remembering will hopefully prevent such a terrible thing ever from happening again.
My own family Sorvivors Life Story- My Mother-Miriam Levental Apfel and my Father Yehuda Apfel.
Look at an artical about Miriam Levental Apfe I sent to the "The Villages"
APFEL-V Mag 11-06.pdf(200KB)
YOM Ha’ATZMA’OOT (Israeli Independence 5-14-15-48)
Mar.30, 2009 in Holidays Leave a Comment
Yom Ha’Atzma-oot
Israel,The jewish state ,born May 14-15th,1948, after getting rid of the British mandate. Israel is celebrating its birthday on THE HEBREW Month of E-YAR (Usually around the end of April or Begining of May).
There are lots of Birthdays in our Jewish Calender.
IN THE FALL WE CELEBRATE THE BIRTHDAY OF THE WORLD “ROSH-HASHANA”,
In the Winter, We celebrate the Birthday of the Trees, “TU-BISHVAT”.
In the Spring We celebrate the Birthday of the state of Israel, “YOM HA’ATZMA-UT”.
Israel Memorial Day May 2, 2006 — giving one’s life in defense of the Jewish people is a mitzvah of the highest order.
Israel Independence Day May 3, 2006 Israel Independence Day — the historic return of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel is a modern miracle.
Israel’s Declaration of Independence was signed on May 14, 1948 (5th of Iyar, 5708), in Tel Aviv. The text of the declaration (in English) follows. “The Land of Israel was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious, and national identity was formed. Here they achieved independence and created a culture of national and universal significance. Here they wrote and gave the Bible to the world. Exiled from Israel, the Jewish people remained faithful to it in all the countries of their dispersion, never ceasing to pray and hope for their return and the restoration of their national freedom”.
Impelled by this historic association, Jews strove throughout the centuries to go back to the Land of their fathers and regain their statehood. In recent decades they returned in masses. They reclaimed the wilderness, revived their language, built cities and villages, and established a vigorous and ever-growing community with its own economic and cultural life. They sought peace yet were ever prepared to defend themselves. They brought the blessing of progress to all inhabitants of the country.
In the year 1897 the First Zionist Congress, inspired by Theodor Herzl’s vision of the Jewish State, proclaimed the right of the Jewish people to national revival in their own country. This right was acknowledged by the Balfour Declaration of November 2, 1917, and re-affirmed by the Mandate of the League of Nations, which gave explicit international recognition to the historic connection of the Jewish people with Israel and their right to reconstitute their National Home.
The nazi Holocaust, which engulfed millions of Jews in Europe, proved anew the urgency of the re-establishment of the Jewish State, which would solve the problem of Jewish homelessness by opening the gates to all Jews and lifting the Jewish people to equality in in the family of nations.
The Jewish survivors of the European catastrophe, as well as Jews from other lands, proclaiming their right to a life of dignity, freedom and labor, and undeterred by hazards, hardships and obstacles, have tried unceasingly to enter Israel.
In the Second World War, the Jewish people in Israel made a full contribution in the struggle of the freedom-loving nations against the nazi evil. The sacrifices of their soldiers and the efforts of their workers gained them title to rank with the peoples who founded the united nations.
On November 29, 1947, the general assembly of the united nations adopted a resolution for the establishment of an independent Jewish State in Israel, and called upon the inhabitants of the country to take such steps as may be necessary on their part to put the plan into effect.
This recognition by the united nations of the right of the Jewish people to establish their independent State may not be revoked. It is, moreover, the self-evident right of the Jewish people to be a nation, as all other nations, in its own sovereign State.
ACCORDINGLY, WE, the members of the National Council, representing the Jewish people in Israel and the Zionist movement of the world, met together in solemn assembly, on the day of the termination of the British mandate for Israel.
By virtue of the natural and historic right of the Jewish people and of the resolution of the general assembly of the united nations, HEREBY PROCLAIM the establishment of the Jewish State in Israel, to be called the nation of ISRAEL.
WE HEREBY DECLARE that as from the termination of the mandate at midnight, this night of the 14th and 15th May, 1948, and until the setting up of the duly elected bodies of the State in accordance with a constitution, to be drawn up by a constituent assembly not later than the first day of October, 1948, the present National Council shall act as the provisional administration, shall constitute the provisional government of the State of Israel.
THE STATE OF ISRAEL will be open to the immigration of Jews from all countries of their dispersion; will promote the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; will be based on the precepts of liberty, justice, and peace taught by the Hebrew prophets; will uphold the full social and political equality of all its citizens, without distinction of race, creed or sex; will guarantee full freedom of conscience, worship, education and culture; will safeguard the sanctity and inviolability of the shrines and holy places of all religions; and will dedicate itself to the principles of the charter of the united nations.
THE STATE OF ISRAEL will be ready to cooperate with the organs and representatives of the united nations in the implementation of the resolution of the assembly of November 29, 1947, and will take steps to bring about the Economic Union over the whole of Israel.
We appeal to the united nations to assist the Jewish people in the building of its State and to admit Israel into the family of nations.
In the midst of wanton aggression, we yet call upon the arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to return to the ways of peace and play their part in the development of the State, with full and equal citizenship and due representation in its bodies and institutions–provisional or permanent.
We offer peace and unity to all the neighboring states and their peoples, and invite them to cooperate with the independent Jewish nation for the common good of all.
Our call goes out the the Jewish people all over the world to rally to our side in the task of immigration and development and to stand by us in the great struggle for the fulfillment of the dream of generations - the redemption of Israel.
With trust in Almighty G-d, we set our hand to this Declaration, at this Session of the Provisional State Council, in the city of Tel Aviv, on this Sabbath eve, the fifth of Iyar, 5708, the fourteenth day of May, 1948.
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YOM Ha’ZIKARON (day of Remembrance)
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YOM H”ZYKARON
Yom Hazikaron The fourth of Iyar, the day preceding Israel’s Independence Day, was declared by the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) to be a Memorial Day for those who lost their lives in the struggle that led to the establishment of the State of Israel and for all military personnel who were killed while in active duty in Israel’s armed forces. Joining these two days together conveys a simple message: Israelis owe the independence and the very existence of the Jewish state to the soldiers who sacrificed their lives for it.
Yom Hazikaron, the Israeli Memorial Day, is different in its character and mood from the American Memorial Day.
For 24 hours (from sunset to sunset) all places of public entertainment (theaters, cinemas, nightclubs, pubs, etc.) are closed.
The most noticed feature of the day is the sound of siren that is heard throughout the country twice, during which the entire nation observes a two-minutes “standstill” of all traffic and daily activities. The first siren marks the beginning of Memorial Day at 8:00 P.M., and the second is at 11:00 A.M., before the public recitation of prayers in the military cemeteries. All radio and television stations broadcast programs portraying the lives and heroic deeds of fallen soldiers. Most of the broadcasting time is devoted to Israeli songs that convey the mood of the day.
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