Nakba Day (15 May) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

This is an archive of prayers composed for, or relevant to, Nakba Day (Arabic: يوم النكبة Yawm an-Nakba, meaning “Day of the Catastrophe”), an annual day of mourning for the displacement of Palestinian Arabs following the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948. The day, inaugurated by Yasser Arafat in 1998, is generally commemorated annually on 15 May (the day after David ben Gurion officially read the Proclamation of the Establishment of the State of Israel).
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A Jewish Prayer for Nakba Day (يوم النكبة), by Rabbi Brant Rosen

Contributor(s):

Brant Rosen

A Jewish Prayer for Nakba Day, by Rabbi Brant Rosen. . . .

תְּפִלָּה יְהוּדִית לְיוֹם הַנַּכְּבָּה | A Jewish Prayer for Nakba Day (يوم النكبة), by Sarah M.

Contributor(s):

Sarah M. and Rasheed Agbaria (translation)

A Jewish prayer for Nakba Day, as commemorated on May 15th in the civil calendar of the Dawlat Filasṭīn. . . .

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Palestinian Arab Refugees - Palestine 1948 (source collection: hanini.org, license CC-BY)

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ויהי נעם אדני אלהינו עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננה עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננהו "May the pleasantness of אדֹני our elo’ah be upon us; may our handiwork be established for us — our handiwork, may it be established." –Psalms 90:17