Independence Day – a prayer

We thank you living and eternal God for the State of Israel.

Our Father in heaven, Rock of Israel and Israel's Redeemer, bless the state, protect it and spread over it and over all its neighbors the tent of Your peace. May peace increase more and more among all peoples so that there be no more hate, no more jealousy, no more competition and no more victory one over another, one over his neighbor.

Send Your light and Your truth to the heads of the State and give them Your wisdom so that they might lead the citizens of the State in the ways of justice and peace.

Send your Holy Spirit on all the residents of the State so that they might live in unity, in bonds of fraternity and devotion to each until we might gather together each one with his friend.

Help especially the weakest in the society to find their place, to find a way to make a living in dignity and uprightness.

All this we pray to you in the name of Jesus Christ Your Son and our Lord who lives for ever. Amen.