Megillat HaAtzmaut, Israel’s Declaration of Independence, was proclaimed on May 14, 1948 by David Ben Gurion.

The document begins with the history of the Jewish people in Eretz Yisrael (The Land of Israel), our connection to the Land in the TaNaCh (Bible), our exile, our hope to return and ultimately the establishment of the Modern State of Israel and what that entailed.

As we commemorate Yom HaShoah this week, I would like to focus on the sixth paragraph of Megillat HaAtzmaut which speaks about the Holocaust:

The catastrophe which recently befell Am Yisrael (the nation of Israel) – the........

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