Why was Israel Created?

Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis · May 30, 2022 · 33m

Now that we’ve celebrated Israel’s 74th anniversary, we’re officially into the 75th year of Israel’s life. Is that young? Old? Truth is, it’s somewhere in the middle. When Israel was admitted to the UN in 1949, it was the 59th state to join. Now that there are 193 countries in the UN, it’s clear that Israel is older than two-third of the world’s countries.

The facts that Israel is no longer so relatively young and that we are into the 75th year of Israel’s life afford us an opportunity to assess how Israel is doing. Is Israel a success? A failure? A bit of both? And most importantly, how do…