Israel Archives - Jewish Quotations

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"We, the members of the National Council, representing the Jewish people in Palestine and the Zionist movement of the world,…Hereby proclaim the establishment of the Jewish State in Palestine, to be called Israel. [May 14, 1948]" ~~ Israeli Declaration of Independence

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"A great people cannot live without an ideal." ~~ Max Nordau

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"The historian’s special interest in the Jewish nation is due to its being the only one that is met with at evey turn of history." ~~ James Darmsteter

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"This said the Lord God: Behold I will open your graves, and raise you from your graves, O My people, and I will bring you home into the Land of Israel…and I will put My spirit within you and you shall live. " ~~ Ezekiel (Yechezkel) 37:2-14

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"There is a divine covenant in everyone’s heart: to love his native soil—despite its climate." ~~ Midrash Genesis R. 34:15

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"Look, the Israelite people are much too many for us. Let us then deal shrewdly with them, lest they increase! " ~~ Exodus (Shmot) 1: 9,10

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"It is a people that shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations. " ~~ Numbers (Bamidbar) 23:9

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"Residence in Israel is equivalent to the observance of all the Biblical precepts." ~~ Eleazar b. Shammua

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"It is good to die for our country." ~~ Yoseph Trumpeldor

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"A stiff-necked people. . ." ~~ Exodus (Shmot) 32:9

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"In Jewish history there are no coincidences. " ~~ Elie Wiesel

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"A people’s memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better." ~~ Isaac Peretz