ISRAEL LOSES 70 SONS

THE JEWISH WORLD MOURNS

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As an Israeli, as a parent, my heart goes out to those who spent all of last night in tension waiting for the telephone to ring, with the call from the blessed voice of their soldier child – I'm OK! I'm alive! Don't worry! -- and especially to those who instead heard the doorbell ring with the worst of news.

We are one family in this country, it is the meaning extracted from this horror: during the War of Independence it was my friends' parents we buried, later on, in other wars, I buried my friends, and in the Yom Kippur War, their children; now, their grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

To my sorrow, we have grown so used to war, we tend to forget that on our Northern border we actually are at war…"

Israel's Chief Rabbi HaRav Yisrael Meir Lau Shlita, himself a child Holocaust survivor, in an address over Israel Radio this morning

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with Minister of Defense Yitzhak Mordechai, Chief of Staff Lt.Gen. Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, GOC Israel Air Force Maj.Gen. Eitan Ben-Eliyahu, and Director of Personnel Maj.Gen. Gideon Sheffer

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