Happy Birthday, Israel!

Combs Spouts off notes that today is Israel's Birthday!

Today is 5 Iyar, 5766, in the Hebrew calendar, the day that Israelis celebrate Yom Ha'Atzmaut -- Israel Independence Day. On this day of the Hebrew calendar 58 years ago (it was May 14, 1948, in the Western calendar), the British lowered their flag and withdrew from Palestine, enabling the Jewish community, led by David Ben Gurion, to declare the creation of Israel:

My hats off to a nation that is the shining beacon of democracy in the middle east.



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