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Soldiers sometimes receive care packages from civilians who want to show their appreciation . Often , a whole town will “ adopt ” a military unit and send its soldiers gifts for Rosh Hashanah or Passover . Draw the things you would want to send to a soldier who was far from home , protecting Israel . Label each item and explain why you would send it . Israel ’ s War of Independence As soon as the State of Israel was established on May 14 , 1948 , Israel’s Arab neighbors attacked , and the Israeli War of Independence began . By the time it ended eight months later , more than 6 , 000 Jews had been killed and approximately half a million Palestinian Arabs had become refugees in Arab countries . The war was over , but no peace treaty had been signed , and hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arab refugees believed their homeland had been unjustly taken from them .
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