Recently. the State of Israel celebrated the 44th anniversary of its independence. During those years. Israel has made unbelievable strides that are the envy of much of the worldeven if many other nations still go through the motions of denying Israels legitimacy. Israel has successfully absorbed wave after wave of new immigrants. from the traumatized survivors of the Holocaust in Europe. to the masses of Sephardic Jews escaping poverty and religious discrimination in Arab lands. More recently. Israel has again astounded the .worldand confounded her criticsby providing a new home and a new hope to the longsuffering Jewish communities of the former Soviet Union and Ethiopia.
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