Yom Ha’atzmaut is the national Israeli independence day, commemorating the declaration of independence of Israel in 1948. It falls on the 5th of the Jewish lunar month Iyar celebrating the declaration of the state of Israel by David Ben-Gurion in Tel Aviv on May 14, 1948, and the end of the British Mandate of Palestine. [Wikipedia]
Google Israel celebrates the 60th anniversary of independence on May 8th.
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