This text should be added to the Amidah and Birkat HaMazon of the Yom Ha’assmauth and Yom Yerushalayim. The addition of Al HaNissim in our prayers is Halachically unassailable. The Tur writes that one may add a supplication or words of praise in the Modim section of the Amidah (Ohr HaHayim 582 and Hagahoth Maimoniyoth Tephilla 6:3). Indeed even on days when Hallel is not said, such as Purim, Al HaNissim is recited - although we hold that you should recite Hallel with a beracha.

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Chag Sameach LeGeulah Shelayma.

The story is told of the Hassidic rebbe who, upon the establishment of the State of Israel, began to recite the thanksgiving prayer of Hallel on Yom Ha'assmauth, Israel's Independence Day. After a few years, his followers noticed that the rebbe no longer recited Hallel. When queried about this he explained: "When a child is born, everyone is happy. But if, as he grows up, he goes off the correct path and moves away from the Torah, the earlier jubilation becomes inappropriate".

2,500 years ago, after having been driven into exile by the Babylonian emperor Nevukhadnessar, the Jewish people were given leave by the Persian emperor Koresh to return to their homeland.

The returnees were headed by three prophets, Zekharyah, Hagai and Malakhi, who, along with their disciples, formed the nucleus of what was to become known as the Great Assembly (Anshe Kenesseth HaGedolah).

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