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VOL. XI

@enrmitell
Keptueky
Jewish
FedFlifjiUﬁIl

APRIL 1988

NO. 3

 

ISRAEL AT 40

On Friday afternoon 5 Ivar, 19A8,
guests arrived at the Tel Aviv Museum:
half the city has turned out to wait for
them. At 4:00 p.m., David Ben—Gurion,
whose entire life was directed toward this
moment, arrived. (Reading from the
Declaration of Independence):

”Fret: Israel was the birthplace of the
Jewish people. Here their spiritual,
religious and political identity was
shaped. Here they first attained state—
hood, created cultural values of national
and universal significance and gave to the
world the eternal book of books. After
being forcibly expelled from their land.
the people kept faith with it throughout
their dispersion and never ceased to pray
and hope for the return to it and the
restoration in it of their political
freedom ... which would open the gates of
the homeland wide to every Jew and confer
upon the Jewish people the status of a
fully privileged member of the community
of nations. ...This right is the natural
right of the Jewish people to be masters
of their own fate, like other nations, in
their own sovereign state. Accordingly
we, members of the people’s council, by
virture of our natural and historic right
and in the strength of the resolution of
the United Nations General Assembly,
hereby declare the establishment of a
Jewish State in Eret: Israel, to be known
as the State of Israel.

Placing our trust in the almighty, we
affix our signatures to this proclamation
at this session of a provincial council of

 

state, on the soil of the homeland, in the
city of Tel Aviv on this Sabbath eve, the
5th day of lyar, 19A8.“

Come join us with pride and joy for the
90th anniversary celebration of Israel’s
independence on Thursday, April 81 begin-
ning at 7:15 p.m. at Temple Adath Israel,
124 N. Ashland Avenue.

This family program will include Hebrew
dancing and refreshments. We anticipate
the participation of one or more Kentucky
dignitaries who have been invited to join
us.

The Jewish Federation’s celebration of
Israel’s AOth anniversary is a program
made possible by the community’s support
of the annual CKJF—UJA fund raising
campaign.