Israel’s Memorial Day

IDF Officer Still in Serious Condition After Bombing at Hizme
The IDF officer wounded in the Hizme checkpoint terror attack underwent surgery for his injuries. He’s in serious condition.

Yom HaZikaron: Israel Remembers 23,477 Fallen & Victims of Terror
Israel observes its Memorial Day to honor fallen soldiers and citizens who died as victims of terror.

Remembering Yehoshua Friedberg HY”D
I don’t want to go to a memorial service, I can’t stand military funerals and I can’t forget. I hate this! Too many thoughts…

Special Ceremony at Jerusalem’s Mt. Herzl Honors Israel’s Victims of Terror
Israelis honored the nation’s victims of terror at a special ceremony at Jerusalem’s Mt. Herzl cemetery.

Netanyahu: ‘On This Day, All Israel Feels the Agony’
PM Benjamin Netanyahu shared personal memories with participants at Mt. Herzl Memorial Day ceremonies.

Watch full Version: Knesset ‘Songs in their Memory’ Event Honoring Israel’s Fallen
The evening featured performances by Shiri Meimon, Ninet Tayeb, Harel Skaat, Idan Haviv, Chief IDF Cantor Lt. Col. Shai Abramson, Uziya Tzadok and military bands.

Ben-Gurion U Arab Students Protest ‘Occupation’ on Memorial Day Eve
“The timing of this protest was intended to hurt the bereaved families.”

Remember
There is hardly a family in Israel who does not know someone or is not related to someone who is being mourned on this somber and mournful Memorial Day.

Daughter of Martyred Har Nof Rabbi Chaim Yechiel Rothman z’l Speaks About Loss
The daughter of a rabbi murdered by Arab terrorists at a Jerusalem synagogue shares her loss, love and pain.

Vital Statistics: Israel Has Grownfrom 806,000 to 8,522,000 Citizens in 68 Years
In 1948 Israel’s annual GDP (in 2015 rates) was $6.66 billion. Today we are happy to report things have become much better, with the GDP reaching $294 billion.

Ben Rhodes’s Fiction Behind the “Iran Deal”
The dates and facts conflicted with the desired narrative, so Rhodes „massage” them to foist on the public. Outside Washington, D.C. this is referred to as lying.

Reports: Likud and Labor Closer than Ever to Coalition
Israel has seen its share of wall-to-wall coalition governments, especially in the 1980s, and in each instance it has been Labor which acquiesced to join with Likud.

Ben Rhodes’s Fiction Behind the “Iran Deal”

Gatestone Institute

Memorial Day Speech by Former IDF Chief of Staff and Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz
Guest Blog
Shalom Pollack

A Soldier’s Mother: Out Come the Flags…
A Soldier’s Mother
Paula Stern

A Melody of Misinformation
Guest Blog
Dovid Ben-Meir