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Israeli airmen deploying from an helicopter similar to the one that
crashed.
When The Bloodshed
Hits Close To Home
NECHEMIA MEYERS
Special to The Jewish News
N
ever have I seen my
21-year-old son Oren
in such a state of
shock as he was last week
when he came home to at-
tend the funeral of a school
friend, killed with six other
airmen when two military
helicopters crashed during a
training mission.
This was not the first of his
acquaintances to fall in the
line of duty. As he told me
after the burial ceremony,
he knew three of the four
young men laid to rest in the
newest section of Rehovot's
military cemetery. But this
was the first time the victim
had been someone so close, a
youngster with whom he had
played in nursery school
sandboxes, sat next to at Lag
B'Omer bonfires and hiked
alongside at Boy Scout
outings.
The facts of life, and death,
are never too far away from
young people in this country,
nor, for that matter, from
their parents and grand-
parents. The reason is clear:
seldom does a week go by
without blood being spilled
in some accident or incident.
Moreover, Israelis are apt
to look upon the six wars
fought in the country's 42
years as personal, no less
than national way stations.
It is customary, for example,
to hear people say that they
were married "just before
the Sinai Campaign," that
they moved into a new house
"three months after the Six-
Day War," or that their first
Nechemia Meyers writes from
Rehovot, Israel.
grandchild was born "in the
midst of the Yom Kippur
War."
You might think that
Israel's ceaseless struggles
would turn her citizens, and
particularly her youth, into
hard-as-nails militarists.
Even though young men
like Oren spend many long
months in uniform, the real
feelings of a large percen-
tage of them are reflected by
the poster which holds pride
of place in Oren's room. It
advertises a local production
of Dalton Trumbo's numbing
anti-war play about a
limbless World War I veter-
an, When Johnny Comes
Marching Home.
There is little likelihood
that Oren or other Israelis
will "come marching home"
at any time in the
foreseeable future because if
Israel is to survive in a
hostile Middle East, her
people must always be ready
to shoulder arms. But that,
in itself, is not enough. She
must also have resolute and
responsible leadership,
which has been sorely lack-
ing of late.
No less painful, in retro-
spect, was the stinging at-
tack on the kibbutzim made
several weeks earlier by
venerable ultra-Orthodox
Rabbi Eliezer Shach, for
three of the seven airmen
killed in the crash were rais-
ed on those very kibbutzim.
Oren, now the treasurer of
a Negev kibbutz, was par-
ticularly outspoken on that
point. He expressed bit-
terness that those who
"shirk military service
themselves don't hesitate to
question the Jewishness of
people without whom there
would be no Jewish State." ❑
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