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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">I wrote in haste. Yom Ha-Atzma’ut can fall on a Friday (as it does next year), in which case it is brought forward a day.</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"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></a></p><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailEndCompose"></span><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"> David Havin [mailto:<a href="mailto:djhavin@djhavin.com">djhavin@djhavin.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 4 May 2017 2:26 PM<br><b>To:</b> Avodah <<a href="mailto:avodah@aishdas.org">avodah@aishdas.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Nidche</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"> </p><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>