Israel marks its annual Memorial Day for the Fallen
National ceremonies Tuesday evening ushered in Israel’s Memorial Day for the service men and women fallen in battle and the victims of hostile attacks. Wreaths were laid at Beit Yad Lebanim in the presence of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein, Minister of Culture and Sports Miri Regev and Director General of the Defense Ministry Udi Adam.
At 20:00 a one-minute siren will mark the central remembrance ceremony and prayer at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, attended by bereaved families, President Reuven Rivlin, IDF Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Gady Eisenkot, and Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat.
At 11.00 a.m. on Wednesday, Israelis will observe two minutes’ silence as memorial ceremonies attended by bereaved families begin at the military cemeteries across the country, after volunteers had placed a small flag on every grave.
Since the Memorial Day of 2017, another 71 servicemen have been added to the roster of service personnel killed in action together with another 30 who died of their injuries. These mounting statistics year by year weigh heavily on the popular consciousness. Since 1860, decades before the founding of Israel, a total of 23,645 Israelis have died in battle or were killed by hostile action. Living in Israel today are 8,929 bereaved parents, 4,849 widows and many thousands of orphaned offspring and brothers and sisters.
This is approx. 50% of a normal death rate in car accidents.
NOW I KNOW WHY THE ISRAELI GENERALS ARE THE BEST IN THE WORLD.
Keep up the good work!
Still 23,645 too many!
But how can they be Israeli’s if they were killed decades before the formation of the idolatrous ethnic chauvinist territorial national state entity of the ‘anti christian’ post churban post crusade replacement theology so called ‘jews’, the ‘Zionists’? Why 1860? Why not count from the Greek War of Independence, that legitimized the concept of small ethnically-based nation-states among the subject peoples of the Ottoman Empire?
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