November 29 is a day to mark the decision of the Second General Assembly of the United Nations to, in 1947, partition Mandatory Palestine. We noted more than a decade ago that when “news crackled over the airwaves that the vote was for partition, jubilation erupted among Jews the world over, for it presaged the creation of a Jewish state.” Six months later, David Ben-Gurion declared one. Zion was reborn with the hora and howitzers.