On Its 75th Birthday, Israel’s Survival Remains a Miracle
A nation unlike any other.
April 26, 2023
On Its 75th Birthday, Israel’s Survival Remains a Miracle
A nation unlike any other.
In 1998, the historian and essayist Paul Johnson—who died in January at the age of ninety-four—considered what the Jewish state had achieved in the first 40 years of its existence. Much has changed about Israel since then (although not the identity of its prime minister), but this Yom Ha-Atsma’ut, Johnson’s insights remain as true as ever.
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