David Ben Gurion realized that once British Forces left Palestine, seven Arab countries would attack a newly formed Jewish state with just 600,000 people, many of them elderly Holocaust survivors. The state would have no real military.
There was a foreign weapons embargo, so Ben Gurion decided to produce weapons locally. The author and several chemistry and physics students were summoned to a secret meeting and literally told to save the nation. This is how the Science Corps named HEMED was formed.
Walter talks to the author of HEMED, the Israeli Science Corps, who was one of its kingpins.
It's a fascinating, previously untold account of the pre-state struggle for survival.
And: How 'Love your fellow as yourself' also means those who are more difficult to love. Hear how one dedicated woman decided that children with special needs can be isolated and lonely. So she started the Central Jerusalem Friendship Circle to bring self worth and joy to those children.
You must hear this story of love and success.
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