Yom Ha'atzmaut Project

Part of The Yom Haatzmaut Project

1. May 15, 1967: Naomi Shemer's Yerushalayim Shel Zahav first sung at the Israeli Music Festival, and what came three weeks later...

2.
July 4, 1976: Operation Yonatan
…with every passing day you acquire a complete world. Now, this very moment, you’ve gained something. From every mistake you make you gain a little. Every single moment of your life is a whole epoch. Do you remember Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If”? In one of the stanzas, he says: ‘If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds worth of distance run, Yours is the earth…’ Because each and every minute is made up of seconds and of even briefer fragments of time, and every tiny fragment ought not to be allowed to pass in vein.(Self-Portrait Of A Hero)
We come with a simple message to the Council: we are proud of what we have done because we have demonstrated to the world that a small country, in Israel's circumstances, with which the members of this Council are by now all too familiar, the dignity of man, human life and human freedom constitute the highest values. We are proud not only because we have saved the lives of over a hundred innocent people—men, women and children—but because of the significance of our act for the cause of human freedom.(Chaim Herzog)


3. February 11, 1986: Natan Sharansky arrives in Israel



4.
February 17, 1977: Team Captain, Tal Brody leads Maccabi Tel Aviv to an upset over the Red Army Team of Moscow sending his team to the European Cup Finals
אנחנו במפה! ואנחנו נשארים במפה - לא רק בספורט, בהכל
"We are on the map. We are staying on the map, not only in sports, but in everything." (Tal Brody)