Israel marked Memorial Day with sirens and silence as it celebrates its 75th anniversary this week in a fractious and uncertain mood, overshadowed by protests over the judiciary
Memorial Day on Tuesday, honouring the country's military dead, and Independence Day a day later have traditionally served as markers of unity in a nation that has fought repeated wars since its creation."I am convinced that there is no greater existential threat to our people than the one that comes from within: Our own polarization and alienation from one another," President Isaac Herzog told the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America in Tel Aviv this week.
Uzy Zwebner, an entrepreneur from Tel Aviv who creates high tech business parks, calls himself a patriot from a Zionist family that came to what is now Israel in the 19th century. But the growing power of the religious parties that helped Netanyahu to power last year has alarmed many secular Israelis, who often resent the special conditions and subsidies that enable many Orthodox men to avoid military service and study in Torah schools rather than take paid employment.
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