Yizkor

For Members of the Israel Defense Force
Transliteration

May God remember the souls of the fighters of the Israel Defense Force who gave their lives for the sanctification of the Name, the People and the   Land; who died a heroic death in missions of liberation, defense and security.

They were quicker than eagles and stronger than lions as they volunteered to assist the people and with their pure blood soaked the clods  of our holy earth. The memory of their self-sacrifice and heroic deeds will never perish from us.

May their souls be bound in the Bond of Life with the  souls of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and with the souls of the other Jewish heroes and martyrs who are in the Garden of Eden. Amen.

Yizkor

For Martyrs

O God, full of mercy, Who dwells on high, Defender of widows and Father of  orphans, grant proper rest on the wings of the Divine Presence - in the   lofty levels of the holy and the pure ones, who shine like the glow of the   firmament - for the souls of millions of Jews, men, women and children, who were brutally and tortuously murdered, gassed and cremated, or buried alive, for the sanctification of Your Name.

Holy and pure were they all, among them scholars and saints as majestic in Torah as the cedars of Lebanon. May the Master of Mercy shelter them in the shelter of His wing's for eternity and may He bind their souls in the Bond of Life.

May their resting place be in the Garden of Eden. HASHEM is their heritage. May He remember their martyrdom, and may their righteousness stand in merit for us and all Israel. Earth, do not cover their blood! Do not silence their cries! In their merit may the scattered ones of Israel be gathered to their possession. May the martyrs' righteousness forever be before HASHEM. May they repose in peace in their resting places and rise at the end of days to life.

Now let us respond: Amen.

Yizkor

For Members of the Israel Defense Force
Transliteration

O God, full of mercy, Who dwells on high, grant proper rest on the wings of  the Divine Presence - in the lofty levels of the holy and the pure ones, who shine like the glow of the firmament- for the souls of the members of the Israel Defense Force, who gave up their lives for the sanctification of Your Name and for the conquest of the Land.

May the Master of Mercy shelter them in the shelter of His wings for eternity and may he bind their souls in the Bond of Life.

HASHEM is their heritage. May their resting place be in the Garden of Eden. May they repose in peace in their resting places. 

Now let us respond: Amen.

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