But even in the midst of the uncertain peace in the Holy Land the people of Israel are going forward. like our own American pioneers. in the building of a nation of freemen. From the day of their proclamation of independence their doors have stood open to Jews all over the world and particularly their homeless. wandering brethren of Europethe victims of concentration camps. the survivors of Hitlers purge of millions. In the first 2 years. in spite of all the tasks of organizing the new government. fighting a war. and maintaining the normal activity of farming and industry. 400.000 immigrants were admitted. Returning to their Biblical. homeland after more than 2.000 years these men. women. and children find an actual and a spiritual haven that could be theirs nowhere else in the world. They labor in the fields. building irrigation systems. to make productive once more the land where milk and honey once flowed. to wrest a living from the eroded soil. to make flowers bloom in the desert.
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