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WORLD MIZRACHI PROUDLY PRESENTS
A NEW VIDEO FOR YOM HA'ATZMAUT
Thursday, May 13th, 1948.
A day which would alter the
Devorah Silberfarb and her dog, Dakota Shira Pahmer course of Jewish destiny.
Even so, after her seminary year, Pahmer returned to the US
and enrolled at Stern College. That didn’t last long. “At the During those turbulent times,
end of my first semester, I just felt like I needed to go back to as the leader of the Zionist movement,
Israel,” she reported. David Ben-Gurion had to grapple with several
“It took many months of deliberating. I spoke to my parents a critical dilemmas.
lot about the idea and they were fully supportive of whatever
decision I would make.” After four months, Pahmer took a Should an independent Jewish state be
leave of absence from Stern and came to study in Jerusalem declared at this challenging time in Jewish
“just to try it out – without actually declaring Aliyah. Almost history or should they accept the American
immediately, I knew that there was no way I could ever leave.” proposition of a three-month ceasefire?
She officially withdrew from Stern and made Aliyah in June Would such a declaration immediately plunge
2021. the nascent state into a fatal war? Could the
Aliyah comes with challenges. For Pahmer, it meant “leaving small army of so many Holocaust survivors
behind all my closest family and friends. I came during the triumph against the might of the Arab world?
pandemic when the borders were closed, so I didn’t know when
I would see them next. I also really loved my time in Stern Learn about how Ben-Gurion, Rabbi Yehudah
College; I was very sad to be leaving that behind. I was nervous Leib Maimon, the leader of Mizrachi, and
about starting a new school where I didn’t know anyone. The others had the courage to declare the State
language barrier is also something that I knew would be hard of Israel.
for me, and it still is because my Hebrew is not so great,” she
admitted.
“Declaring a State: The Quorum That
Nevertheless, “I decided to make Aliyah because I know that Changed Jewish History” will be available
this is where the Jewish people belong. Hashem promised this to watch on World Mizrachi’s YouTube
land to us, and He wants us here. I also believe that the safest channel, Facebook page and MizrachiTV,
place for the Jews right now is Israel, and where else would I from Sunday, May 1.
want to be but in our ancestral homeland?”
Now studying computer science at Machon Tal in Jerusalem, @worldmizrachi
Pahmer has a sister who also made Aliyah. “For me, living in
Israel is the greatest dream come true. I love being in a Jewish @worldmizrachi
country surrounded by so many types of Jews. Every day I
still feel so lucky to be here, because I know that this is where
Hashem wants me to be, and I know that I am making my
family proud,” she acknowledged.
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