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With subdued state ceremony, Israel begins marking a somber 76th Independence Day
Israel’s annual state torch-lighting ceremony aired Monday night in a radically atypical format, as the country began marking a bleak 76th Independence Day, the first since Hamas’s October 7 terror massacre in southern Israel.
Read more: The Times of Israel