Revelers try to set a record for the most people singing a national anthem. To celebrate turning 60, Israel is staging fireworks, air force flyovers and a birthday bash for anyone born on the day the Jewish state was founded

Israel is marking its 60th Independence Day, which began at sundown Wednesday

Six decades after rising from the ashes of the Holocaust, the Jewish state is still plagued by threats from abroad and an identity crisis at home

Israel at 60 is a paradox of exuberance and despair: a country enduring near daily rocket attacks from militants while producing scientists who have pioneered Wi-Fi and instant messaging

Its 41-year occupation of Palestinian territories has invited international condemnation. Yet Israel is a thriving democracy that has provided a haven for the world's Jews