“Today we bow our heads in memory of our loved ones whose blood has been spilled in our homeland” said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who lost his brother Yoni during the 1976 Entebbe Operation, said at the ceremony. “There is never a true remedy to that-to every family it’s own grief and it’s own courage.”
Today we count the 18th day of the Omer “Netzach Shebe Tiferet” Endurance within Compassion.
This is exactly what the Jewish people are made of. We never have given up and we will never give up.
The capacity to have such strength comes from never forgetting our fallen soldiers and those who are still missing, Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul.
We don’t forget those who lost their lives to senseless terrorism and we keep their memories alive.
When my oldest daughter was living in Israel for one year abroad the first Gaza war broke out. I remember calling her and she answered in a hush voice. I asked “where are you?” She said “I am at the funeral of the first fallen soldier.” I asked “did you know him?” She answered “no, but there are thousands of people in the funeral, most didn’t know him, but everyone is crying as if he was his child, brother, friend.”
The Jewish people are one big family, when one suffers we all suffer, when one has a joy, we all have joy.
If this doesn’t make our Father in heaven proud of His children I don’t know what will.
May we have the final and ultimate redemption in our days! A time in which there will only be peace and we will be able to reunite with those we’ve lost.
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