Today at the official ceremony on Mount Herzl to commemorate the victims of terrorist actions, the Prime Minister met with Tamar and Yishai Fogel the children of Ruth and Udi Fogel of blessed memory who were murdered together with three of their children in the terrorist attack in Itamar. May their memory be a blessing.
Amir a #Druze from the north of #Israel and I during the hike. This was a day that I really went through a test of my strength.. The night I walked for my beret and the end of Advanced Training was the same day as the funeral of one of my close friends in my company and my second gunner Hen Shafir.. Not a lot of us were in the best of moods that day and we were all fighting and upset and tired but we pulled it together as one when it came to the hike and got it done for Hen for ourselves, for the history of Israel and the Jews and for the future of our homeland.. #idf #RIPHenShafir
Yom Hazikaron Summed Up In One Photo.
Heartbreaking
An Israeli boy hugging his father’s grave who fell in battle to protect his country
Today, the entire people and I salute the courage of our finest sons and daughters, who are worthy of glory for all eternity. Blessed is the people who has such sons - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
On this Memorial Day for those killed in Israel’s wars and for its terror victims, Frimet Roth writes that we should remember the children.
I suggest we focus this Remembrance Day on the 129 Israeli children killed by Palestinian terrorists during the past thirteen years. The world is preoccupied with mourning Palestinian children and has forgotten the atrocities committed against Jewish children. We must remind them.
Malki left us only her writings and her art. They offer a glimpse into the soul of a sensitive, religious, idealistic, artistic and talented Israeli teen.
She kept a diary between September 2000 and June 2001. There, interspersed with long, involved accounts of school, Ezra (a youth organization in which she was a young leader) and family activities are the details of each terror attack perpetrated during those 10 months.
On April 29, she wrote:“I woke at 10. Levona and I went first to R.L.[a teacher] whose mother passed away last week (it is very sad because she is an only child, unmarried and has no father. She sat shiva alone!) She was in a very good state. Spoke a lot, told about her mother. Then we went to the Gerard Behar Center Library. We spent 6 hours there without food or drink!!! We finished biology. In the evening I went to a lecture given by Rav Elon with Shulamit, Leah, Efrat Shafir and Chen [her friends]. I didn’t exactly understand the lecture but it was fun. I met Zvi [her brother] there and we stayed for Arvit. “Sunday is now completed…”Then, apparently later and in a different colored pen, she added:“Aryeh Hershkowitz, may his death be avenged was shot dead a month ago. Now his son was shot dead near Ofra!!! Only the little brother can say Kaddish.”On the first page of her diary is a printed list of personal details:
Read the whole thing.
There is no pain like the pain of a parent who has G-d forbid lost a child. And that pain can only be worse when G-d forbid it hits like a thunderclap on a sunny day.
May G-d comfort the Roth’s and all of the families who are mourning loved ones today among all the mourners for Zion and Jerusalem, and may they know of no more sorrow.
Israel at 65!
Today is the first of a two-day Israeli holiday.
The first part, today, is Yom HaZikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day. A day of remembering and longing for those who died so that the Jewish State could live. It is one of those times when Israel feels more like a family than a country. A day of sadness. The second part begins at sundown when the country bursts into a celebration of life! It’ll be Israel’s Birthday!
For the Fallen IDF Soldiers - לזכרם של חללי מערכות ישראל
In Memoriam - Remembering Our Fallen.
On this site you will have the opportunity to see some of their stories. The story of Israel.
A Hero in every sense of the word..
The Knesset and Defense Ministry will honor the memory of American-born IDF soldier Michael Levin in its Remembrance Day for the Fallen of Israel’s Wars ceremony on Sunday night.
Levin immigrated to Israel from Philadelphia in 2002 and joined the Paratroop Brigade. He fought in the Second Lebanon War, cutting short a vacation to the US to rejoin his comrades.
On August 21, 2006, a Hezbollah sniper killed Levin in the southern Lebanese village of Ayta a-Shayeb. He was 21 years old.
In 2009, The Lone Soldier Center in memory of Michael Levin was founded by a group of former lone soldiers (soldiers in Israel without close relatives) and Tziki Aud, a Jewish Agency worker who supported new immigrants and was close to Levin.
Aud said Levin told him he dreamed of a center for lone soldiers where they could receive meals, support and advice during their IDF service.
May his neshama have an aliyah in Shamayim…
Yohan Zerbib - Died While Defending Israel.
Yohan Zerbib left France to serve in the ranks of the IDF. He died in battle during the Second Lebanon War. “Tell my parents that I regret nothing and that I am proud of what I did,” he said. These were his last words.
