Jerusalem – Thursday is Israel’s Independence Day, which commemorates the country’s official Declaration of Independence in 1948. The country celebrated with rallies, fireworks displays, flyovers by the Israeli Air Force and family barbecues.
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It was a hard-fought independence — the day after the declaration, a coalition of Arab armies attacked and started what Israel calls its War of Independence. Israel emerged victorious, but not until after nearly 10 months of fighting, and thousands of casualties.
In the coming days, the Israeli Kedem Auction House is auctioning off a collection of 26 rare photographs from the war. Here’s a selection of some of them — which capture both the intensity of the historical moment and snippets of everyday life during wartime, from both the Israeli and Arab sides.
Great photos. Thank you.
I only lament that Israel didn’t have enough forces to really pacify the country of its internal fifth column of so called Israeli arabs, pacification by stalin involved removing all enemy supporters to distant lands, for example kalingrad has zero germans there today., Israeli should have pacified yafo, the triangle and any other area that hosted enemy supporters.