Posted on 09/17/2002 10:08:32 AM PDT by Israel Insider
This past week, with the focus on the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, America has been in the news in Israel even more than usual. American olim took the opportunity to hold several events that drew attention to American aliya.
On September 10, the Association of Americans and Canadians in Israel (AACI) held its annual ceremony commemorating those Americans and Canadian Israelis killed in acts of terror over the past year. The event always takes place between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur at the AACI Memorial Forest near Shaar Hagai, just off the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway not far from Beit Shemesh. There are more than 200 names on the simple plaque that nestles among the pine trees in the forest. Many of those listed are soldiers who fell defending the country in all the wars since 1947. But over the past two years of Arab violence, the numbers being added have jumped dramatically, and they're almost all civilians. This year 25 new names were engraved on the plaque.
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