| Today is: Friday, Adar II 19, 5771 · March 25, 2011
• Israel Secures Ein Gedi (1949)
Following the War of Independance, Israel needed to secure its borders against the hostile Arab nations which surrounded it. Ein Gedi, on the western shore of the Dead Sea, was secured on Sunday, March 20, 1949. Link:
War of Independence
And you shall rejoice in your festival --you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, who are within your cities
- Deuteronomy 16:14
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