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--></style></head><body lang="EN-AU" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Yom Ha-Atzma’ut can never fall on a Thursday.  Under the current arrangements, it cannot fall on a Monday, so those who fast on BeHaB and also wish to celebrate Yom Ha-Atzma’ut no longer need to be concerned.  In Hilchot Yom Ha-Atzma’ut ve-Yom Yerushalayim (ed Nahum Rakover, 1973), there is an article by Rabbi Meir Kaplan which discusses what to do when the two did coincide. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">David Havin</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></body></html>