To familiarize the chanichim with three different famous roads to Yerushalayim, from 3 different tkufot (time periods).

To teach about the singer Yafa Yarkoni & the song "Bab El-Wad"

The chanichim should leave the sicha understanding

(1) The power of Yom Ha’atzmaut – how all these different Jews came together to fight as an Am and why it was it was so important for the Jews in 1948 to have an independent Jewish State.

(2) The battle for Yom Ha’atzmaut applies to us today and we can only truly appreciate geulah by looking at Yom Ha’atzmaut as part of a cycle of Yom Hashoah and Yom HaZicaron.