Pod Save America Hosts Call on Democrats to Cut All Israel Military Aid, No Longer Accept AIPAC Funding
Jews, Israelis Targeted in Austria Amid Surge in Antisemitic Incidents; Local Jewish Community Calls for Action
‘All of Our Strength’: Over 1,000 Pro-Israel Activists Gather in DC for Solidarity Conference
‘Devastated’: Wesley LePatner, Killed in Manhattan Mass Shooting, Was a Jewish Communal, Philanthropic Leader
Sen. Angus King Vows to No Longer Vote for Israel Military Aid Until Gaza Conditions Improve
Europe Won’t Pressure Israel to ‘Commit Suicide’ Amid Gaza Backlash, Palestinian State Push, Says Israeli FM
Israel’s National Soccer Coach Attacked in Athens Before Soccer Fans Chant ‘F–K Israel, Free Palestine’ at Match
New York Judge Sentences Neo-Nazi to 5 Years for Livestreaming Bomb Threats Against Jewish Hospitals
US Pressures Lebanon to Issue Cabinet Decision to Disarm Hezbollah Before Talks Continue
UK Plans to Recognize Palestinian State in September Unless Israel Meets Conditions, Starmer Says
Arab-Israeli Journalist Lucy Aharish Lights Independence Day Torchlight (VIDEO)
Error: Contact form not found.
by Alina Dain Sharon / JNS.org
Lucy Aharish lit a torch at a ceremony marking Israel's 67th Independence Day. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
JNS.org – Arab-Israeli journalist Lucy Aharish lit a torch as part of a group of 14 Israelis honored in the official government ceremony marking Israel’s 67th Independence Day.
In a short speech as she lit the torch, Aharish said in Hebrew that she was lighting it “for those we were but are no more, who fell victim to baseless hatred by those who have forgotten that we were all born in the image of one God.”
“For Sephardim and Ashkenazim, religious and secular, Arabs and Jews, sons of this motherland that reminds us that we have no other place, for us as Israel, for the honor of mankind and for the glory of the State of Israel,” she said, as translated by the Times of Israel.
She added in Arabic that the lighting was “for our honor as human beings, this is our country and there is no other.”
Aharish has worked as a journalist for several Israeli news outlets. She also works as an English-language anchor on the i24news international news network, which is based in Jaffa.
