The Israel Story podcast tracked down the closest living relatives of the Israeli Declaration of Independence signatories to ask about what the signers wanted and what they thought of Israel now.
It features the work of elementary school children from 15 Jewish schools around the world, such as England, Ireland, Scotland, Finland, and the US.
Power comes with a responsibility to limit ambition and to ensure that minorities and their opinions aren’t marginalized.
Zionism’s old-new centripetal liberalism is still open, democratic, tolerant, individualistic. But it is also communitarian, traditional, family-oriented, meaning-making and soul-stretching.
Israel's first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, signed the order to establish the IDF on May 26 and the IDF began is existence on May 31, 1948.
"For Zionism to survive and Israel to thrive, we need a new, compelling rallying cry to mobilize a new generation around what 21st-century Zionism truly stands for,” Seserman said.
Over the past 2,000 years, Jews have suffered through exile and desolation. From the Romans to the Holocaust, they faced enemies and antisemites who tried to annihilate them.
Upon reaching 18, all should be required to serve the country, in military or civilian service, as their civic duty.
Aliyah may have been a sacrifice 30 years ago, but today it is no more difficult than moving to any other country.
Brushing aside negative portrayals of the ancient rebels, the Zionists made an ideological connection to them because they had bequeathed an important legacy.
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