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Today, the United States of America and Israel are the closest friends and allies. During more than five decates of state building, Israeli have looked to the United States in inspiration, financial and military assistance, and diplomatic support. Americans in turn have viewed Israel with a special appreciation for its successful effort to follow Western democratic tradition, its remarkable economic development, and its determined struggle against uncompromising enemies.

This mutual admiration is hardly a recent phenomenon. The profound influence of Jewish tradition on the Founding Fathers can be seen in the American Constitution. Such influence should come as no surprise given John Adams' view expressed in a letter to Thomas Jefferson: "I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation".

According to Woodrow Wilson, the ancient Jewish nation provided a model for all American colonists: Recalling the previous experiences of the colonists in applying the Mosaic Code to the order of otheir internal life, it is not wondered at that the various passages in the Bible that serve to undermine royal authority, stripping the Crown of its cloak of divinity, held up before the pioneer Americans the Hebrew Commonwealth as a model government. In the spirit and essence of our Constitution, the influence of the hebrew Commonwealth was paramount in that it was not only the highest autority for the principle, "that rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God", but also because it was in itself a divine precedent for a pure democracy, as distinguished from monarchy, aristocracy or any other form of government

Jews also contributed directly to the revolution. President Calvin Coolidge paid trubute to their role in the war of Independence: "The Jews themself, of whom a considerable number were already scattered througout the colonies, were true to the teachings of their prophets. The jewish faith is predominantly the faith of liberty".

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