In wake of heavy loss, Rabbi Leo Dee calls for unity behind Israeli flag

The Efrat community was left in shock on Friday morning after a terror attack in the Jordan Valley took the lives of Efrat residents and sisters Maia and Rina Dee when on their way to Tiberias for the weekend.

Their mother, Lucy (Leah), was critically wounded in the attack and was transported to Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital where the medical team fought for her life over several days before being forced to determine her death on Monday afternoon.

Rabbi Leo Dee, father of Maia and Rina and husband to Lucy, delivered an emotional speech on Monday evening in which he declared April 10 as “Dees Day,” asking everyone to post a photo of themselves with the Israeli flag – or even just a photo of an Israeli flag – on social media in honour of his wife and children.

“Today is Dees Day, when we can all differentiate between good and bad by sharing a picture with an Israeli flag,” he said.

“Let the Israeli flag today send out a message to humanity which is: We will never accept terror as legitimate. We will never blame the murder on the victims. There is no such thing as moral equivalence between terrorist and victim. The terrorist is always bad,” he continued.

“Let’s make today Dees Day, remembering Rina, Maia and Lucy Dee and also remembering the beginning of the turnaround in the second world war when the forces of good started to overcome the forces of evil,” Rabbi Dee continued. “And the Dee also stands for Differentiate, because on Dees Day, we have to differentiate between good and evil.”