{"id":129890,"date":"2026-04-22T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=129890"},"modified":"2026-04-21T08:18:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T06:18:19","slug":"24-05-120","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=129890","title":{"rendered":"On Memorial Day, Netanyahu frames Israel\u2019s fallen as \u2018foundation of our independence\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reunion68.com\/Biuletyn\/img\/jns-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"35%\" \/><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><span><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/news\/israel-news\/on-memorial-day-netanyahu-frames-israels-fallen-as-foundation-of-our-independence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">On Memorial Day, Netanyahu frames Israel\u2019s fallen as \u2018foundation of our independence\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>JNS Staff<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 100%;\" \/>\n<div>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u201cThe people remember. The people salute. The people are deeply grateful to the sons and daughters, thanks to whom our existence is assured,\u201d the prime minister said.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/static.jns.org\/dims4\/default\/42c3870\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1790x1008+0+120\/resize\/1000x563!\/format\/webp\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.jns.org%2F71%2F56%2Fe80495e849f19ee1056251bff7d4%2Ff240608tapool05.jpg\" width=\"100%\" \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference at Sheba Medical Center at Tel HaShomer in Ramat Gan, June 8, 2024. Photo by Tomer Appelbaum\/POOL.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking in Jerusalem on Israel\u2019s Memorial Day, which began on Monday evening, said the day is one of \u201cheavy sorrow\u201d but also the \u201canchor of unifying togetherness.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cThe people remember. The people salute. The people are deeply grateful to the sons and daughters, thanks to whom our existence is assured. In the words of the prophet Isaiah: \u2018For a people in Zion dwelt in Jerusalem, weep and do not weep,\u2019 \u201d the prime minister said at a ceremony of Yad LaBanim, the official group commemorating Israel\u2019s fallen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Among those attending the ceremony were the speaker of the Knesset, the president of the Supreme Court, Israel\u2019s chief rabbis, and the mayor of Jerusalem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Netanyahu said the loss of a loved one always stays with the families of those who have fallen. He recalled how, after 50 years, his family still longs for his elder brother, Jonathan, who died leading the 1976 raid on Entebbe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The prime minister spoke of Heli Wolfstall, who lost her son Ariel, an armored battalion officer, in the recent war. Wolfstall went to Poland as part of a group, \u2018Witnesses in Uniform,\u2019 with IDF company commanders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Before the journey, Netanyahu related how she collected stones from the cemetery where her son was buried and took them to Treblinka, Birkenau, and the cemetery in Krakow, where soldiers of the Jewish Brigade, which fought the Nazis in Europe, were buried.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cThere, in Krakow, Heli and IDF officers placed the stones of the Land of Israel on the graves of the fighters during the Holocaust. The officers sought to express their deep feeling that they were the successors of their predecessors in the same mission to ensure the eternity of Israel,\u201d Netanyahu said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Quoting Wolfstall, he said: \u201cMy family and I have paid the price of revival, and our hearts are torn, but this journey illustrated to me what would have happened if we hadn\u2019t had the Israel Defense Forces. Instead of complete helplessness, today we have the strength and the spirit to fight back against our enemies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Netanyahu added: \u201cThis is precisely the difference between the reality of our life in terrible exile and the life of revival on the land of Israel. In contrast to the recent past, today we have a home, and we must guard it with all our might. The 25,648 fallen soldiers of Israel\u2019s wars, joined by the fallen of the last few days on the Lebanese front, Barak Kalfon and Lidor Porat, are the foundation of our independence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">He said that in every generation, there are those who rise up to destroy the Jewish people. Iran would have done so with nuclear bombs if Israel hadn\u2019t struck first. \u201cThe names Natanz, and Fordow and Isfahan\u2014these death sites would have joined the names of the death camps Auschwitz, Birkenau and Treblinka. But we acted and crushed the murder plot.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Netanyahu described the current generation of fighters as the \u201cgeneration of victory.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Israel\u2019s superiority over Iran has been proven, he said, as its flag flies from positions in Gaza to Mount Hermon on the Golan Heights, and its planes control the skies over Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cWe are not done yet,\u201d he said. \u201cBut the world already knows our determination to defend ourselves; to protect not only ourselves, to protect humanity as well, from barbaric fanaticism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 100%;\" \/>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"content-alignment\">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><em>Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion&#8217;68,<\/em><em><br \/>\nani te\u017c webmastera Blogu Reunion&#8217;68, chyba ze jest to wyra\u017anie zaznaczone.<br \/>\nTwoje uwagi, linki, w\u0142asne artyku\u0142y lub wiadomo\u015bci prze\u015blij na adres:<br \/>\n<\/em><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><em><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"mailto:webmaster@reunion68.com\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">webmaster@reunion68.com<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr style=\"width: 100%;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Memorial Day, Netanyahu frames Israel\u2019s fallen as \u2018foundation of our independence\u2019 JNS Staff \u201cThe people remember. The people salute. The people are deeply grateful to the sons and daughters, thanks to whom our existence is assured,\u201d the prime minister said. 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