As Chaim Weizmann proclaimed the Jewish state shortly before the Sabbath to that small group in TelAviv. the new country was threatened by invading armies on all sides. The Israel that was established in May 1948 had a Jewish population of 650.000. Some of its residents were born there. others had emigrated from Eastern Europe since the start of the Zionist movement. while still others arrived after the Second World War. the last remaining survivors of the Hitlerian holocaust. The survival of the new nation was in question from the moment of its birth. Today. 15 years later. more than a million newcomers have made their home in Israel.
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