Hillel Celebrates Israel

Students enjoy learning and fun at annual carnival.

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Third-grader Emily Meretsky of Farmington Hills has her face
painted.

'Akar,
Fifth-graders Blake Rogow of West Bloomfield, Zachary
Resnick of Birmingham, Kyle Otis of Waterford and Jeremy

Cohn of West Bloomfield enjoy food at the Israel Cafe.

A lively carnival on school grounds helped Hillel students
celebrate Israel's 60th anniversary.

illel Day School of
Metropolitan Detroit
celebrated Israel's 60th
birthday with its annual Israel
Independence Day Carnival. The May
8 carnival was filled with games,
face painting, other activities, plus
an Israeli cafe with wonderful food.
The carnival topped off a day of
festivities of learning and fun, which
included Israeli dancing, an all-
school zimriyah (song festival), and
the making of a 60th anniversary-
themed mosaic artwork.
Students also learned about the
difficult situation in Sderot, where
citizens face daily attacks from
Gaza. Students then wrote cards and
made video greetings that will be
sent to families in Sderot.
Hillel's eighth-grade class cel-
ebrated Israel's 60th in Israel in a
fun-filled evening on Ben Yehudah
Street followed by a day learning
about the armored division, its role
in the War of Independence and its
function in the military today. Then
the class headed for the foothills of
Jerusalem where they participated
in a 90-minute bike ride near the
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Hillel students enjoy carnival activities.

Timeline from page A34

1976
Israeli plane is hijacked and
passengers held hostage in
Entebbe, Uganda; daring
rescue mission by Israeli
commandos frees hostag-
es; Lt. Col. Yoni Netanyahu,
leader of the rescue opera-
tion, is killed.

3 7

1981
Israel destroys Iraqi nuclear reactor; former Chief
of Staff and Minister of Defense Moshe Dayan
dies; Golan Law is passed, giving Israel sover-
eignty over Golan Heights.

9 z.3 2

Menachem Begin leads Likud to political power
in major electoral upset; Egyptian President
Anwar Sadat visits Jerusalem and addresses the
Knesset.

978
Prime Minister Begin and
President Sadat meet
with President Carter,
center, at Camp David
and agree on historic
peace treaty, which is
signed in 1979.

A44 may

19 8 0
Knesset passes Jerusalem Law, declaring undi-
vided Jerusalem the capital of Israel.

15 • 2008

Operation Peace for Galilee (The Lebanon War)
begins as Israel attempts to eliminate terrorists
in southern Lebanon from attacking northern
Israel.

198 3
Public support wanes for Lebanon War, forcing
Prime Minister Begin to resign.

1987

Palestinian terrorism erupts in Gaza Strip and
West Bank, launching what becomes known
as the intifada (uprising); notable "refuseniks"
including Ida Nudel, are released by Soviet Union;
first heart transplant is performed in Israel.

Israel launches its first satellite.

9 9 0

Iraq invades Kuwait and threatens Israel, setting
the stage for the Gulf War. An International coali-
tion led by the U.S. liberates Kuwait and defeats
Iraq in 1991.

1 9 9

Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin signs the Oslo
Accords, granting Palestinians limited autonomy
in Gaza and the West Bank.

1984

Operation Moses secretly brings approximately
7,000 Jews from Ethiopia to Israel. The operation
is revealed in early 1985.

1995

Yitzhak Rabin is assassi-
nated by a Jewish radical.

199 6
Benjamin Netanyahu becomes Israel's first
Israeli-born prime minister.

0, 3

Ilan Ramon, Israel's
first astronaut, dies in
Columbia space shuttle
disaster.

0 G

Israel evacuates Gaza; Robert Aumann wins
Nobel Prize in economics, joining fellow Israeli
laureates of the 21st century, Aaron Ciechanover
and Avram Hershko (chemistry, 2004), and
Daniel Kahneman (economics, 2002).

2007

Hamas, a radical Islamic terrorist organization,
overthrows the Palestinian Authority in the Gaza
Strip and launches rockets daily into Israel.

— Timeline courtesy of BabagaNewz