The day on which DW's interview with Israel's Ambassador Ron Prosor takes place in Berlin is a day like no other. It's the day Israel commemorates its fallen soldiers and the victims of terrorist attacks on April 21 every year.

Israel is still under pressure, under attack even 78 years after its founding, Prosor says at the beginning of the interview, which is conducted by DW's Berlin correspondent Simon Young.

"It's a very special day today and just think: You entered the Israeli embassy here in Berlin, and you saw the amount of security around us. And it really emphasizes how Israeli embassies [and] Israeli diplomats have to work abroad."

Since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, Prosor adds, the country has been practically at constant war.

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