On the fifth of Iyar, May 14, 1948, erev Shabbat in which the portion of Emor was to be read, David Ben-Gurion stood with pride and dignity in the Dizengoff house in Tel Aviv -- surrounded by his provisional cabinet and, no doubt, surrounded by the almost 100 Jewish generations that came before him -- and proclaimed the rebirth of Medinat Yisrael, "the State of Israel."  |
