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Yom Ha’Atzmaut, Israel’s “Day of Independence,” marks the establishment of the modern state of Israel. On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion, the de facto leader of the Jewish community in Palestine, publicly read the Israeli Declaration of Independence.
