Sublime

On Israel Independence Day in 1995, Israelis heard the first performance of a song that would soon become an Israeli classic. Titled “Winter ’73,” it begins: “We are the children of winter of ’73.”

By 1967, the Jewish state had survived an onslaught of unrelenting attacks, had absorbed over a million immigrants,1 had emerged as

Ben-Gurion set in motion the capture and trial of Adolf Eichmann. The trial proved to be a stunning breakthrough in public understanding. The “curtain of shame” was lifted and the enormity of the Holocaust revealed.

While Tuvia was agonizing about what to do, two of his partisans, Michal Mechlis and Akiva Szymonowicz, came up with an answer.

Despite his apparent private misgivings, Rabin continued to shore up support for the Oslo Accords. To demonstrate to Israel and to the world that the Jewish state remained behind the agreements it had signed with Arafat, he and Shimon Peres called for a massive pro-peace rally in Tel Aviv on November 4, 1995.

Israeli voters often move to the political right after increases in terrorism;

Mordechai Berkowitz, a blacksmith, established a workshop

Jewish religious life has brought forth people who do not fear arraigning even God when there is injustice.