It has been 69 years since the founding of Israel was declared at a theater hall in Tel Aviv on May 14, 1948. The period that led to the displacement of approximately 750,000 Palestinians and the destruction of more than 500 villages and towns with the war that erupted the following day, is remembered by Arabs as “Nakba,” or the “Great Catastrophe.” The current estimated number of Palestinian refugees around the world is about 7 million.