Today is Yom Hazikaron, the day Israel remembers and honors its 24,068 fallen soldiers, police and security forces along with 4,217 civilian victims of terror. A two-minute siren sounded across the country at 11 am, followed by state memorial services at the country’s 52 military cemeteries nationwide, attended by bereaved families, public figures and representatives of the government, police and the security forces. The main service was held at the national military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Yerushalayim
Last night a 1 minute siren sounded at 8pm. An annual state ceremony was held at the Western Wall in honor of the dead, attended by the country’s top officials.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett released a video statement for the bereaved families:
“The sacrifice of the fallen obliges us, the living, to do better and be more united; to conquer our divisions and to love one another as well, and perhaps especially, when we do not agree on everything. Among the fallen, there are religious and secular people, right and left, Jews and non-Jews. They lived together, served together, fought together and died together. And they would probably like us to continue living together. Your loved ones have paid the ultimate price in the continuous struggle for our independence, for our security here in this country, and we will continue to do everything to ensure that their way, which is the way of the whole nation, is the one that prevails.”
WATCH VIDEOS OF THE SIREN:
Is את יום הזכרון הזה said in יעלה ויבא of שמונה עשרה \ עמידה? What about מוסף?
Does the siren do anything to the נשמות of those murdered in the Holocaust?
Is את יום הזכרון הזה said in יעלה ויבא of שמונה עשרה \ עמידה? What about מוסף?
Does the siren do anything to the נשמות of those murdered in the Holocaust?
Wow. Very powerful. May their memories be blessed. Real hero’s.