This year, hundreds of families – who in the past were merely empathetic observers of the Remembrance Day rituals – will now be active participants.
Even if all goes well with the ceremonies this year, broader issues will continue to plague Israel for the foreseeable future.
“My father was my entire world. It was through the support of OneFamily that I felt there was somebody to check on me,” says Shira Mark-Harif, whose father was killed in a terror attack.
The application, "Memory Paths," allows individuals to navigate to graves in military cemeteries, giving users information about the fallen buried there.
The exhibition will feature 25 virtual video testimonies in Hebrew and English, filmed and produced by producer Noam Shalev.
The report showed that of the 760 soldiers who lost their lives this year, 711 were killed since the start of the Israel-Hamas war.
In the Jewish nation, horror and hope go hand in hand. As we move to Remembrance Day and Independence Day, we must hold space for pain, but not lose sight of celebration.
Association of Americans and Canadians in Israel (AACI) Memorial Forest – Sha’ar Hagai
Acknowledging collective loss, Herzog thanked the families for choosing life rather than dwelling in misery.
Remembrance Day this year will be more painful than ever, don't sully it with division, says Ben-Shem.
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