The National Education Association, the country's largest teachers union, gives a history of the celebration on its Web site.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

That is the most fertile part of the country, but it was also the site of many of the most bloody battles in Israel's history.

那便是这个国家最富饶的地方，它也是,以色列历史上大部分血腥战争发生的地方。

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