“This year Manchester UJIA is again hosting the national online memorial service for Yom Hazikaron. It will be a moving ceremony with special guests including Colonel Tidhar Dar and Chief Rabbi Mirvis.”
They will interview Anat Farkas, the mother of an air-force soldier killed in the second Lebanon war. She has an incredible story and is a real inspiration.
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER : https://ujia.org/event/yom-hazikaron-ceremony/
I have just finished watching ‘Valley of Tears’, a powerful docu-drama of one theatre of conflict during the Yom Kippur War of 1973. The backdrop was, of course, fighting between Israeli and Syrian combatants, particularly graphic tank engagements, but there was also emotional conflict between brothers, friends, family, father and son and antagonism in the command structure. Juxtaposing Israel’s fight for survival against the dynamic of human relationships was very effective. And so ended the 10 part film, or, at least, so I thought. There was a surprising postscript. A young man, identified as Yoni, the son of one of the tank drivers, wandered along a Jerusalem street in which many Hasidim were going about their daily business, when he stopped at the entrance to a yeshiva. He looked at the students studying Torah and Talmud. An old rebbe looked up from his book, and appeared to see Yoni, who was in fact a ghost returning to present day Jerusalem. The man returned to his studies, while the young man suggests a smile of resignation: nothing has changed!