(Hai Fe) - President Yitzhak Herzog visited the Reali School in Haifa, which lost 12 of its graduates since the start of the 'Iron Swords' war.
The President of the State visiting the school ► Watch
The President says:
"Some kind of bad spirit is starting, a very disrespectful and incorrect conversation is starting to develop around the abductees and their families. There is no greater mitzvah in Judaism than redeeming captives, which the Maimonides said.
We all see it as a real central goal, the kidnapped Shabbat and the kidnapped return home as soon as possible. Moreover, our soldiers are in the Gaza Strip fighting, many of them carry stolen photos on their vests, they know this is their mission.
Bereaved and injured families I talk to say - we were there to free the abductees. This is something that should unite the whole nation and it unites the whole nation. The whole nation stands behind the abductees.
You can argue about the way to reach the destination from here or there. But, I call on the whole public and especially the elected officials to consider the feelings of the families of the abductees. To understand that they are going through a hell not of this world, going through hell day by day hour by hour. They live in uncertainty and in terrible mental and physical suffering.
You have to know how to behave with maximum sensitivity, and you have to understand that sometimes there are things that should not be said in public. Things that are said, can injure our brothers and sisters just for nothing, and cause terrible pain that is not justified, because we are all obligated to return the abducted. I repeat, there is no greater mitzvah than redeeming captives.'
There is no greater mitzvah than ransoming prisoners but not at the price of freeing thousands of terrorists which will encourage the next kidnappings just like the mistake of the Shalit deal. No one wants to be the next abducted families, so the cycle of surrendering to the pressure of the abducted families needs to be stopped right now. Those who do not understand this are impervious to reality and cruel. If the families of the abductees do not understand this situation, then the anger towards them is justified. There are thousands of bereaved families here, there are thousands of seriously injured families. Not everything here is the families of the abductees and the media lobby they recruited.
It was possible to list in the real title not just any school in Haifa