Following the War of Independence, Israel needed to secure its borders against the hostile Arab nations which surrounded it. Ein Gedi, on the western shore of the Dead Sea, was secured on Sunday, March 20, 1949.
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War of Independence
Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld played a leading role in the Jewish community of British-Mandatory Jerusalem for almost six decades. He authored the book of responsa Salmas Chaim.
These things people call amazing coincidences, synchronicity, small miracles—this is the way life is supposed to be. Miracles should be normal.
It is only that the world is in slumber, surrendered to the stillness of sleep, the chaos of a dream where anything is possible, but nothing has purpose.
The world awaits you to open your eyes, your ears, your mind, your heart. To awaken to the purpose for which G‑d sent your soul to this place. And to carry it out.
As soon as you begin to wake, this fractured, dreamy world shifts and its fragments merge into unison. Synchronized. Miraculous. As it was meant to be.