During the first truce in June 1948, Elishuv was transferred to the southern front under Uzi Narkiss. He was wounded after driving over a mine, but returned to combat after recovering.
At a Hahazakim Mitgalim gathering in Herzliya, the Diaspora Affairs minister said soldiers should feel no shame in seeking psychological support or taking part in therapeutic activities.
Born in Poland in 1919, Widawski was imprisoned with his family in the Lodz Ghetto following the Nazi invasion. He was later deported to Auschwitz, where he lost his parents and most of his siblings.
The new community of Bitron was inaugurated as part of the “Otef Israel” initiative focused on communities along Israel's eastern border.
Gotliv also slammed the IDF's response, stating its silence "magnifies the horrific damage caused by this false film, which is based on Playmobil soldiers and not IDF soldiers."
Abraham and Szor’s film, which won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday, takes its title from the Israeli military acronym for “collateral damage."
The initiative will preserve memorial books and personal works created in memory of those killed in combat and those murdered, while making their stories accessible to future generations.
Police suspect the three men, two brothers and their cousin from Jaljulia, were shot before the vehicle was set on fire early Sunday.
Within a day of its release on Netflix, the series had already ranked seventh among the platform’s 10 most-watched shows in 43 countries and was leading to new understandings of the massacre.
The fatal collision near Rechasim came amid a series of serious road accidents across Israel in recent days.
René Weiler praised the Israeli striker after D.C. United’s scoreless draw with Atlanta, telling Jerusalem Post that Baribo “doesn’t need a lot of goal-scoring chances to score.”
