By: Haviv Rettig – The Jerusalem Post
For Prof. Yoram Shachar, Independence Day 5767 will be different than those that came before. Twenty-five years of research and painstaking labor have borne fruit, yielding an archive of original documents, many rescued from oblivion, related to Israel’s Declaration of Independence.
The digital archive includes scans of first drafts, mostly written by the Yishuv leadership in the month preceding the May 14, 1948, signing of the Declaration.
“My first goal was scientific,” Shachar told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday, “to create a document archive that will allow future researchers to know about the phrasing of the Declaration.” But his second goal, he added with some urgency, “is to convince many people who may not even know that they are in possession of additional drafts to help me find these documents. Every passing year lowers the chances of finding them.”
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