Yom haatzmaut

“Residents are invited to step out onto their balconies with Israeli flags, to wave, dance and rejoice, together, from their homes.”

Lauder wrote, “Both the State of Israel and our Jewish communities are demonstrating exceptional fortitude and cohesion in the face of the pandemic. Our difficult hour is also our finest."

The country goes under lockdown at 5 p.m.

Thousands of our people, in communities all over the world, are still very much in mourning

Despite the mandatory two-week quarantine and the inability to see friends and family who were eager to welcome them to the country, they are still happy to be in Israel.

Israelis may be stuck at home, but that doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be celebration and pride in abundance

This proximity raises an old question about the relationship between the Holocaust and the State of Israel. Was it the Holocaust that enabled the establishment of the state?

Now, after seven-plus decades, we are fighting an enemy we cannot understand; one which seeks to defeat us, our allies, our neighbors, and even our enemies without distinction.

The new show follows a collection of photographs of women Harpaz took to mark Israel’s 70th Independence Day, and The Eyes of the State project she presented two years earlier.