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Ten Years On
In honor of the tenth anniversary of Israel’s independence, in 1958, a ceremony was
held in Independence Hall commemorating and reenacting the historical declaration.
T his time, the members of the Provisional State Council who had been in Jerusalem
under siege and unable to attend the ceremony in 1948, were there: they included President
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (President of the State of Israel in 1958), Eliyahu Dobkin, the "minister
of Aliya", and former Mayor of Jerusalem, Daniel Auster.
B en-Gurion, who had presided over the ceremony of the declaration of the state in
formal attire, adopted a more casual appearance a decade later, with no tie.
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In honor of the tenth anniversary of Israel’s independence, in 1958, a ceremony was
held in Independence Hall commemorating and reenacting the historical declaration.
T his time, the members of the Provisional State Council who had been in Jerusalem
under siege and unable to attend the ceremony in 1948, were there: they included President
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (President of the State of Israel in 1958), Eliyahu Dobkin, the "minister
of Aliya", and former Mayor of Jerusalem, Daniel Auster.
B en-Gurion, who had presided over the ceremony of the declaration of the state in
formal attire, adopted a more casual appearance a decade later, with no tie.
Endlessly Recounted 267
