1. “The very existence of Israel is as near to a miracle as we will find in the sober pages of empirical history.” - Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
2. "In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles." - David Ben-Gurion
3. "No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so brief a period of time as Israel has done since its relatively recent rebirth in 1948." - Alan Dershowitz
4. "Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism." - Nnamdi Azikiwe
5. "In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology." - Shimon Peres
6. "I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization." - Harry S. Truman
7. “Shalom. The Hebrew word for hello means peace. That is all.”
8. “No thoughtful man can deny the fact that the Jews are, beyond any question, the most formidable and most remarkable race which has appeared in the world.” – Winston Churchill
9. "To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be." - Golda Meir
10. “The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.” - Henry Kissinger
