…Anti-religionists in Israel want to have their cake and eat it too. They live as of right, the right inscribed in the Bible, that’s in the first phrases of the Israeli Declaration of Independence; and their flag is the Shield of David, the greatest religious poet in history, framed by the stripes of a prayer shawl, but they don’t want to live according to the beliefs and practices of David and religious Jews from his generation through every generation since then. The religion is the only thing Jews can pass on to the next generation. Not the political leaders. I’d bet half the school kids in Israel today can’t tell you who David ben-Gurion was, analogous to a George Washington.

The names of the Zionist leaders are surely meaningless to most: Menachem Ussishkin, Ze’ev Jabotinsky, Haim Arlosoroff, Yitzhak Tabenkin, Berl Katznelson.

It is the religion of the Jews that sustains this people and without it this people cannot survive. Shabbos is the fourth of the Ten Commandments. Above honoring parents, about not committing, murder, larceny, adultery, slander.

Shabbos is also a day that encourages family life, each family one of the bricks that build healthy societies.

Imagine an Israel that one day observes Shabbos in overwhelming numbers. Imagine how clean the air would be without cars zooming around on that day. Imagine the peace and quiet in city streets…