Marrying Invalids: Yom Kippur War's Effect on Moods of Israel Couples By MOSHE RON TEL AVIV During the months after the Yom Kippur War, the officials of the Tel Aviv rabbinate were over- burdened with work. They had to sort out the wedding- records of the last years, in order to transfer them to the archives in the basement. The Israeli population was under the hard impression of the war events and the mourning of thousands . of families. It was a somber at- osphere and young couples -ad even widows and di- vorced people did not think 'n those months of being mar- 3d and building new homes. During the last months life got back to normal and this had an immediate effect on *the work of the rabbinate. In the corridors of the building on King David Boulevard, one can meet many couples, new immi- grants and old residents, wi- dows aj2d divorcees. Some are making preparations for weddings. There is life and movement again in our "bus- iness," the officials of the building say with satisfaction. Young men and women give them their personal de- tails, and the dates for the wedding ceremonies are fixed. The manager of this department, young Rabbi Yehuda Landon, who re- ceives each couple, some- times witnesses great sur- prises. This month he re- ceived dozens of youngsters, who were injured during the Yom Kippur War and are in- valids. They planned to marry a year ago after Sukkot. but the war failed their inten- tions. They spent many months in hospitals and many of them, mostly tankists, who jumped from their burning tanks remained permanent invalids, even though they underwent several opera- tions. The officials of the rabbinate have to help the youngsters fill in their pa- pers, as they cannot stand on their feet. Some of them even ) entered the building in wheel- chairs. Rabbi Landon is sometimes deeply moved watching such invalids. He is comforted when he sees the young beau- tiful girls who are willing to marry such boys. They had known them in most cases before their injury and they are full of bliss and happi- ness standing or sitting in the rabbinate's office with their future husbands. They are gay and full of laughter in order to encourage the boys. Whenever such a young couple appears before him, the young rabbi thinks: "Good God, who from them is the bigger hero? The bridegroom, who has jumped during the Yom Kippur War from burning tanks on the Golan Front and brought the massive attack of Syrian tanks on Kuneitra to a stand- still or the beautiful bride, who looks with affection and love into the face of her fu- ture husband, which is mar- red by wounds and scars, as if he would look like an at- tractive film artist?" We could see in the build- ing how young girls push the invalid cars of their future husbands. We knew about hundreds of such couples who live in Israel a nice family life. 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