The traditional verse recited to mourners: "May G‑d console you, together with all mourners of Zion and Jerusalem." 
We toured two months ago. What a beautiful country with wonderful people.We met may young male and female police and soldiers. Very mad and very sad.
Very eloquent. Thanks.
(Not anything we’d hear from the MSM...)
Thank you for posting this, JOHN ADAMS.
Wow. Thanks for sharing. It will never be too soon for Obama to be gone and our friendship with God’s people, Israel, is restored.
May God bless America and may God bless and protect Israel and may peace be upon Jerusalem.
What are you in Israel for? I’ve never been there but expect to sometime in the future.
May God accept this wonderful young mans soul and comfort his family. It hurts to watch these young lives be extinguished
Great post.
Thank you so much for your report.
My heart breaks for this young man’s family.
Bookmarking for later
I have also been there and done this many times. Memorial Day in Israel was never for fun - we had families of too many fallen friends to visit.
Memorial Day in Israel is gut-wrenching. Sundown to sundown, the night and the following day are filled with stories of heroism, sacrifice and loss. Every town and neighborhood has their own events. The last one I went to was in a large neighborhood (subdivision really) outside of Rishon Le’Tzion. The reading of the names went on for more than 30 minutes - there must have been more than 100 fallen from that subdivision alone. TV and radio is filled with it, saturated in it, and at some point, you just want it to stop, you want to not listen or see it anymore. It just becomes too much. So you stop watching and listen.
It only took me about two minutes without the TV or radio to feel guilty as hell. Look what they did and what they endured and sacrificed and I can’t see or listen to it for one lousy day every year? What’s wrong with me? Turn that TV and radio BACK ON, you coward! So I do - turn it back on and listen and watch and absorb it all right through to the end at sundown when Independence Day is ushered in.
The sudden transition from sorrow and loss to celebration is extremely difficult but a good lesson. There is no freedom without courage and sacrifice.. But for them, I would not be here and I would not be free.
Thank-you so much for your beautiful and touching report of what you saw and heard in Israel. You conveyed the sorrow, gentleness & kindness of spirit in these people, whom I love, with the impact of reality.
Thank-you again, for that.
The traditional verse recited to mourners: "May G‑d console you, together with all mourners of Zion and Jerusalem."