I made Aliyah to live in a Jewish country. On my first weeks here I felt really blessed to live in a place where you can light Hannukah candles at every corner of the city, hear hassidic music in a taxi, find kosher wine in almost every restaurant and cafe, say Shabbat Shalom to the people you meet in the street on a Friday, walk on the highway on the day of Yom Kippur,... I thought that being Israeli meant living in a place where Jewish is the norm rather than the exception. And I felt that I belonged. Then came Yom Hazikaron, the day when Israelis remember all the soldiers who fell for the country since its creation. The day when coffee shops & restaurants are closed, when thousands of people sit in the most complete silence during the annual ceremony on Kikar Rabin, when TV channels stop their regular programmation to only broadcast portraits of fallen soldiers and testimonies of their bereaved families ; the day when a whole country stands still for two minutes at the sound of the remembrance siren, when military cemeteries are filled with hundreds of people crying together. The day when a whole nation mourns its fallen children and honors the memory of the ones who died to protect their land and people. This day I realized what being Israeli actually means : having to know war while yearning only for a peaceful life. I came across a song this morning. It says it all. https://youtube/watch?v=jAcwLUsdbGE In these harsh times where criticism are pouring over Israel and where the world has gone blind, I think its our duty to show them what the reality of being Israeli actually is. Please SHARE the song and help spread the TRUTH.
Posted on: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 09:30:15 +0000
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