![David Ben-Gurion (First Prime Minister of Israel) publicly pronouncing the Declaration of the State of Israel, May 14 1948 in Tel Aviv, beneath a large portrait of Theodor Herzl, founder of modern political Zionism, in the old Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Photo: Rudi Weissenstein/Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/02eb2c200ba39e91ecaa4f007fa5910d-900x613.jpg)
Israel at 70: Looking back and looking forward
By Andrew Rehfeld
• Published May 10, 2018
![“The mutual influence has been enormous,” said Blu Greenberg, the founder of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance. (Debra Nussbaum Cohen)](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/d29f86450d19ae243f17a6254296ae5e.jpg)
Israel at 70: What women in Israel and the West learned from each other
Debra Nussbaum Cohen
• Published April 12, 2018
Israel at 70: Israeli and Diaspora Jews are siblings living in very different homes
Avital Hochstein
• Published April 10, 2018
![Ofra Daniel as the lead character Tirza in her play “Love Sick.” (Cheshiredave Creative)](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/4f2c6d019012392800a354d2909e4d5b.jpg)
Israel at 70: How Israelis like me relate to a country that’s an ocean away
Ofra Daniel
• Published April 9, 2018
![Mordechai Schachter, third from left in top row, with fellow soldiers who fought in Israel’s War of Independence. (Courtesy of Schachter)](https://stljewishlight.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/5ccbba22dc1cee586ed27b44a85287e4.png)
Israel at 70: A Holocaust survivor recalls fighting in Israel’s War of Independence
Josefin Dolsten
• Published April 4, 2018
Israel at 70: How 1948 changed American Jews
Ben Sales
• Published April 2, 2018
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