To Be a Free People

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To be a free people contains speeches and articles, poems and lyrics of popular songs, letters and military orders, extracts from diaries and excerpts from books and Supreme Court legal decisions, oaths of soldiers, verses from the Bible and the Talmud. All of these are presented together with photographs and postcards, documents, newspaper articles and proclamations, stamps, paintings, caricatures and drawings of histotical significance. To be a Free People is based on the Declaration of Independence of May 1948. Editors of the book took 12 of its ringing phrases, which express the essential Israeli identity. Each phrase opens one of the book's 12 chapters, in which were gathered together extracts related to that topic.