Jerusalem – Israelis have come to a two-minute standstill to remember fallen soldiers and victims of terror as the country marked Memorial Day, one of the most somber days on the Israeli calendar.
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A siren rang out at 11 a.m. as motorists pulled over on the sides of highways and roads and pedestrians stopped in their tracks.
Israelis are attending remembrance ceremonies across the country Wednesday. Radio and television networks are broadcasting programs about battle and loss.
The melancholic atmosphere is to end abruptly at sundown, when Independence Day celebrations start.
This Memorial Day comes as Israel faces an eight month-long wave of Palestinian violence that has killed 28 Israelis. About 200 Palestinians have been killed. Israel says most of them have been attackers. The rest died in clashes with Israeli troops.
#1 is a troll. Now is not a time for politics when thousands of Jewish mothers and fathers are going to visit their sons graves when it should be in reverse. IN the 1973 war in fact there are a dozen families who lost 2 sons and some of those parents only had 2 children after surviving the Holocaust. Let us not see anymore JEWISH suffering.
No hakoras hatov to the tzionim who rescued your rebbe ztzk”l!