Beryl Ratzer

As the sun sets today, the fifth day of the month of Iyar according to the
Hebrew calendar, we here in Israeli shift our mood from the sadness of the
national day of mourning for all those who have fallen in the defence of
Israel to one of happiness and thankfulness as our tiny state, the Jewish
State of Israel, celebrates its sixty first birthday.

The equivalent date in the general calendar is 15th May and on that date the
Moslem population in Israel will commemorate  their Nakb’a, their disaster,
the day on which, in 1948, the Arab Palestinians failed to do what the
Jewish Palestinians did – to declare statehood in those areas of the defunct
Palestine which were under their control. Continue Reading