We Hereby Declare
Israel Story
Israel Story
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🗓️ 30 March 2023
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
"Signed, Sealed, Delivered?" looks at our founding moral compass - Megillat Ha’Atzmaut, or the Declaration of Independence. Through the descendants of the men and women who, with the strike of a pen, gave birth to this country of ours, we ask questions about ourselves and about Israel, on the eve of its 75th birthday.
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| 0:00.0 | My father, I really saw him very little because he was imprisoned by the British. |
| 0:05.8 | What they call Jewish terrorists. |
| 0:09.6 | And my father signed this declaration of independence. |
| 0:14.0 | The declaration of independence. |
| 0:15.2 | So, sign it was a very exciting thing. |
| 0:18.0 | I am the grandson of the personal sign, tense in the Diletar Smogs. |
| 0:23.0 | John Hancock and Israeli declaration of independence in terms of size has been glorious. |
| 0:29.4 | But my grandfather's is the one that stands out most. |
| 0:32.4 | My grandfather didn't marry women. |
| 0:35.4 | Women married my grandfather. |
| 0:40.4 | When I was coming home from school, he was there for me. |
| 0:44.4 | We had five o'clock tea. |
| 0:46.4 | When I played with my friends in the yard, in Shabbat, I remember my father calling me to come up |
| 0:53.4 | and study with him. |
| 0:55.4 | They gave me a ride. |
| 0:56.4 | He had a beautiful 10-hour voice. |
| 0:58.4 | He sang beautifully. |
| 1:03.4 | My father looked at all our homework. |
| 1:05.4 | He always looked at everything we did. |
| 1:07.4 | He brought two eggs back with him from the signing. |
| 1:10.4 | And she said, this is the best thing that came out of the declaration. |
| 1:14.4 | You can see the roots of the fascism we are living today in this document. |
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