Speaker. in 1948. the centuriesold hopes of Jewish exiles scattered around the world were fulfilled when their homeland was declared independent. and the new Israel was established. Israels Independence Day will be celebrated on April 17 this year. Nineteen hundred and fortyeight marked the coming of a new. stable. progressive nation to the Middle East and a great flowering of Jewish culture. When the first European refugees from the ravages of World War II arrived in Israel there was very little indeed to sustain or encourage them but their own faith in the future. Palestine had become a barren land over the centuries. abandoned by most of the people who had once lived there. It had possibilities. but required great amounts of energy and capital.
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