To deal with

Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s national independence day and make sure they know about it.

To teach the chanichim basic things about

Israel that they are familiar with but do not know enough about.

To understand Yom Hazikaron

Order:

-karyan 1,2,3

-father

-friend 1

-sister

-friend2

-mother

-karyan 4,5

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.