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To light the torch, or to extinguish? Israeli TV carried two competing, simultaneous Independence Day ceremonies. Why?
With the recovery over the weekend of the bodies of four of our hostages, including one who was not known to have been killed, the kidnapped captives are back in the center of Israel’s news. That is obviously what the hostages’ families and many others want, and what they sought to accomplish with the alternate Yom Ha-Atzma’ut ceremony that they ran, a ceremony that national TV ran alongside the traditional, official one.
We’ll soon get to the video at the very top of this post, which is a clip from the traditional national Yom Ha-Atzma’ut ceremony in which a variety of people are selected to…
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