{"id":824,"date":"2015-05-14T16:14:02","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T23:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=824"},"modified":"2015-05-14T16:14:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T23:14:02","slug":"state-of-israel-proclaimed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=824","title":{"rendered":"State of Israel Proclaimed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Israel\" target=\"blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"israel.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/israel.jpg\" alt=\"Israel\" width=\"250\" height=\"282\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On May 14, 1948, in Tel Aviv,\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Ben-Gurion\" target=\"blank\">David Ben-Gurion<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0shown standing beneath a portrait of\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theodor_Herzl\" target=\"blank\">Theodor Herzi<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0one of the fathers of modern political Zionism, proclaims the\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Israel\" target=\"blank\">State of Israel<\/a>, establishing the first modern Jewish state. \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, 67 years later, Israel remains the only nation in the middle east with a democratically elected government.<\/p>\n<p>I have been privileged to visit Israel twice, in 1991 and 2000. \u00c2\u00a0I consider those visits significant highlights of my life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 14, 1948, in Tel Aviv,\u00c2\u00a0David Ben-Gurion,\u00c2\u00a0shown standing beneath a portrait of\u00c2\u00a0Theodor Herzi,\u00c2\u00a0one of the fathers of modern political Zionism, proclaims the\u00c2\u00a0State of Israel, establishing the first modern Jewish state. \u00c2\u00a0 Now, 67 years later, Israel remains the only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=824\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[197],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freedom-history","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":825,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}