Remembering the Druze, Muslims, and Christians Who Gave Their Lives for the Jewish State
“To attain a strong, independent state, you must sacrifice. And if I have to, I’ll sacrifice another son.”
April 25, 2023
Harry Zvi Davidowitz and the Rock of Israel.
When the London-educated lawyer Mordechai Beham was tasked in 1948 with drafting a declaration of independence for the nascent Jewish state, he decided to consult with Harry Zvi Davidowitz, an American rabbi who lived nearby. It was most likely Davidowitz who thought of putting the biblical epithet Tsur Yisra’el (Rock of Israel) into the text, a formula that mollified both secularist and religious signatories. Yizhar Hess provides some biographical details:
“To attain a strong, independent state, you must sacrifice. And if I have to, I’ll sacrifice another son.”
“In pre-civil rights America, . . . Jewish people were not required to sit at the back of the bus.”
Harry Zvi Davidowitz and the Rock of Israel.
The kabbalistic tree.
Could the ancient South Arabian alphabet be the key to evidence of the queen’s visit to Solomon?
When the London-educated lawyer Mordechai Beham was tasked in 1948 with drafting a declaration of independence for the nascent Jewish state, he decided to consult with Harry Zvi Davidowitz, an American rabbi who lived nearby. It was most likely Davidowitz who thought of putting the biblical epithet Tsur Yisra’el (Rock of Israel) into the text, a formula that mollified both secularist and religious signatories. Yizhar Hess provides some biographical details:
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