What single picture best encapsulates the miracle of Israel?
Published: Saturday, April 25, 2009
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Rabbi Yaakov Salomon
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(23) Robert E Anderson , May 8, 2009
1967 - Soldiers at the Western Wall
That photo from June 1967, looking up at the soldiers seeing the Wall for the first time. RE Anderson / Chicago, IL, USA (Former Christian -- Now Ben Noach)
(22) Shmuel , May 2, 2009
The Warm Heart in All
My snapshot would be a crowded Meah Shearim street, with a traffic jammed road, and an Egged bus with it's doors opened, and the bus driver giving money to a collector on the street. This is what Our People in Our Land are about. How Mashiach should come VERY soon in mour days. Amen and may there be achdus in a reuited Eretz Yisrael.
(21) peter kraynik , May 2, 2009
Bet HaMikdash
Who else on earth has had Ark of the Covenant, and the Holy of Holies? G-Ds signature on earth.
(20) Anonymous , May 1, 2009
Life
I got this picture in an e-mail this week of a small child's arm on her great-grandmother's arm that bore the number from a Concentration Camp with an Israeli flag above it. At the time I thought this picture is worth a thousand words.
(19) shoshana , May 1, 2009
shavous at the kotel
I am never going to forget the best moment in Israel on Shavuos at the kotel. Although you cannot take a physical snapshot on Shavuos (the best kodak moments are usually on Shabbos/Yomtov)but it was such beautiful spiritual experience. I walked with my seminary, in Sanhedria Maruchevet, to the Kotel which is about a 45 min. to an hour walk. When I got to the kotel I was shocked how crowded it was. All types of Jews davening at the same place and the same time at the most spiritual place in the world. I don't think anyone could imagine how great that experience is, unless you have seen it. That moment was so special b/c any other Yomtov does not matter so much where you are in the world, but Shavuos I felt that no place in the world was as special as that sight I saw on Shavous at the Kotel.