“To be a free nation in our country,” Naftali Hertz Imber wrote in a text that became the state anthem, “Hope.” An ambition never completed, but recently undermined. The last two years have made it clear how self -evident this sentence is, to what extent our freedom is threatened – from the inside and out. Despite the foregoing, hope and action are not allowed to be lost.
In the 77th year of our independence, we become less and less free-express an opinion, protest, live according to our values and beliefs. It did not happen by chance – in the 77 years of independence Israel, which in the early years included a military government on Israeli Arabs and since the Six Day War, 58 years of controlling the people outside our borders, the occupation takes over independence. Like a big, black cloud, it covers the full territory of the country and takes the freedom, the privilege of being a hole where others are not as free as we are.