Week #4 - Founding of the State of Israel - 1948

To start today, we'll visit the sukkah to share our bagels and a few thoughts about the holiday.

Then we'll briefly look at this article and discuss the freeing of Gilad Shalit.

Then we'll return to our look at the history of Israel.

Last time we learned about the role of the British Empire and the White Paper, as well as the Balfour Declaration.

Today we'll recap a bit of that by watching this video.

Other resources we'll use today:

Founding of Israel Video

Declaration documentary - English subtitles

Zippy's letters

Text of Declaration

United States of America - Declaration of Independence

David Ben Gurion's Independence Speech

USA recognizes State of Israel

Hatikva - Bergen-Belsen

Hatikva - Background

Declaration - document

Zippy letters - questions