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Rabbi Avraham Cohen of Yeshiva
artiness enveloped the main
Beth Yehuda remembered his brother
sanctuary Tuesday evening as
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their way to their seats. The
ing in yeshiva in Eretz Yisrael," he said.
last light of day shone through stained
While on a holiday break, his brother
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glass. A small spotlight and the dim
tripped up a tank mine in northern
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Yom Kippur War, I learned extra for the
Memorial Day, began with a two-minute
soldiers," he said; "because we knew
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loss of her only brother,
Etan, soon after the
birth of one of her two
daughters during the
Lebanese conflict in
1982.
"I had just returned
from the hospital with
my baby when we got a
telephone call from the
army that he was
wounded," she said. Knowing that the
army would never disclose a soldier's
condition, "I knew he was dead when
they called."
After a wreath-laying ceremony and
the lighting of Yahrzeit candles, stu-
dents from Jewish day schools, high
schools and youth movements read a
list of names of fallen Israeli soldiers.
The day-long ceremony, sponsored
by the Michigan-Israel Connection,
continued at Shaarey Zedek with
Hebrew songs, poetry and a speech by
Colonel KobiMarom, a former com-
mander of the Hermon Brigade.
"For me as a soldier, this is a
unique event because for the past 20
years, I have spent many Memorial
Days visiting the graves of my friends
in Israel who paid the ultimate sacri-
fice," said Marom, an International
fellow at the National Defense
University in Washington, D.C.
The families of the fallen live with
their loss every day, he said.
Detroit Jewish News
Latrun, Israel
oth Steve Rossmoore and
Stephanie Dorfman said
they were deeply touched
by the Yom HaZikaron
commemoration on behalf of Israel's
fallen soldiers. The event was at the
Armored Corps Museum near Tel Aviv
night.
on "The younger generation only
understands war through Saving
Private Ryan," said Temple Israel's
Rossmoore, accompanied on
Michigan Miracle Mission III by his
father Harold, a World War II veteran.
"But to see the faces of young men
who at any moment could go to war is
to see something very real. For myself,
I saw the faces of my own children as
if they had been living here."
Dorfman, a fellow congregant and
a West Bloomfield High School
teacher, said seeing Israeli soldiers,
many still teenagers, "with tears in
their eyes as they stood at attention,
transcended our being tourists. When
you looked into their beautiful faces,
you couldn't help but wonder if they
would be alive next year."
Hundreds of mission goers and
Israelis attended the solemn commem-
oration at the Israeli war memorial.
The site was anybody's to claim
between 1948 and 1967; the rusted
remains of Jewish convoys trying to
bring supplies to Jerusalem during the
War for Independence still line the
roadway as a memorial.
The service, hosted by the Israel
Defense Forces Armored Division,
included a tribute to Col. Mickey
Markus of New York City. He helped
Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion
train Israeli troops for the War for
Independence before friendly fire acci-
dentally took his life in 1948.
On the way to Latrun, Miracle
Mission buses hadn't reached the
museum grounds by the 8 p.m. siren
marking the start of Yom HaZikaron.
So they stopped where they were
along the road with other Israeli dri-
vers in deference to the war dead.
Said Temple Israel Rabbi Harold
Loss, "That single act, seeing Israelis
standing in silence beside their cars in
the middle of the highway, was more
powerful than anything we might have
missed at Latrun."
Tuesday morning, a two-minute
siren sounded at 11 a.m., bringing
the commerce of the day to a stand-
still. Memorial services followed at
the Western Wall, in schools, on
military bases and at monuments
across Israel.