3 names were added on the monument • are associated with the fallen

In the shadow of the war: Kiryat Eliezer unites with Naflia in an emotional ceremony for Memorial Day • Following the war, 3 new soldiers' names were added to the monument

In the shadow of the war that has been going on for over seven months and on the 219th day of the fighting and the hard battles, the Remembrance Day ceremony for the martyrs of Israel's armed forces and the victims of hostilities will also be opened in the neighborhood of Kiryat Eliezer in a memorial rally and a moving ceremony in memory of our fallen soldiers and the fallen residents of the neighborhood, in the plaza of the Memorial to the Fallen of Israel's Armed Forces located on Tza Street to the corner of Avner St. in the neighborhood.

The State of Israel unites with the memory of the 25,040 martyrs of Israel's systems, the number of its heroic and brave soldiers who fell from 1860 until today, and unfortunately this figure also includes the five IDF soldiers who fell in the last week in the fierce battles in the Gaza Strip. Since Memorial Day last year, 766 martyrs have been added to the number of the fallen. On the monument are engraved the names of 49 martyrs from the Kiryat Eliezer neighborhood and West Haifa who sacrificed their lives for the establishment of the state, when just recently following the "Iron Swords" war that began on October 7 on the same black Sabbath of Simchat Torah with the murderous and brutal terrorist attack by the terrorist organization Hamas, they were added to the monument more 3 soldiers are the heroes of Israel and they are:

The late Corporal Avraham Patna, 20 years old in Nefolo was a fighter in the Erez Battalion of the Military Police, he was killed about a month after the outbreak of war on 16.11.23/XNUMX/XNUMX in an attack that took place at the tunnel checkpoint in Jerusalem.
The late Capt. Alina Pravosudova, 23 years old in Nafle, was an officer in the Southern District of the Home Front Command, in the role of a duty officer at the "Urim" base in the south of the country, with the outbreak of the murderous and brutal terrorist attack by the terrorist organization Hamas on 7.10.23 she fought bravely against the terrorists who infiltrated the base until her last moments, Fell in a battle on an outpost near Kibbutz Reim, in her fighting she protected her fellow soldiers. Protects her soldiers.
The late Sgt. David Bogdanovski, 19 years old in Nefolu, was a fighter in the 603rd Engineer Corps Battalion, fell in battle in the south of the Gaza Strip about two months after the outbreak of the war on 23.12.23/XNUMX/XNUMX.

The ceremony began immediately after the siren of silence that was heard throughout the country as the speech of the bereaved families was carried with great excitement by Alina Elbol, the sister of the late soldier Sgt. David Bogdanovsky who immigrated to Israel with his family from Ukraine to Haifa 10 years ago and his dream was to serve the country as a fighter for the State of Israel, his dream came true But the world of the members of his family was destroyed when they received the good news about the fall of their beloved, her brother David in the Gaza Strip and he was only 19 years old when he fell, he fought in the 603rd Engineer Corps Battalion and fell in battle in the south of the Gaza Strip about two months after the outbreak of the war on 23.12.23.

Mr. Yosef Malina, the father of the late police officer Yitzchak (Itzik) Malina, who died in the fire disaster on Mount Carmel in 2010, said "Kaddish", after which the rabbi of the neighborhood, the Honorable Rabbi Shmuel Kaplan, recited the prayer "God full of mercy" and also read chapter XNUMX. The number of "Psalms". Also at the ceremony, the Deputy Mayor of Haifa, Mrs. Sharit Golan-Steinberg, delivered moving words in memory of the martyrs of Israel.

During the ceremony, an artistic program of singing and dancing was held, presented by the students of the various schools in the Kiryat Eliezer neighborhood, including: "Reot" school, "Dror" school with the dance "Mother's Hero", graduates and students of "Ironi A'", "Yivnyali" . Towards the end of the ceremony, wreaths were placed on the monument by the bereaved families, a wreath from the municipality of Haifa placed by city council member Sharit Golan-Steinberg, a wreath from the Kiryat Eliezer neighborhood committee placed on the monument by the chairman of the neighborhood committee, Vard Hanin, Ilai's son and neighborhood activist Ofir Pourkosh, foreign "Israel Defense Forces", foreign school "Iruni A", foreign school "Dror", foreign school "Yevniali", foreign school "Reut for the Arts", foreign "Kiryat Eliezer Youth Center", "BaKhilah" association guest, "Amit" tribe guest of the "Scoops" movement and "MilB" guest, the "Olive" pensioners club and the veteran who has been in the neighborhood for many years. We will add and note that the ceremony was also conveyed to the general public in sign language and the ceremony was presided over with great grace as usual by the moderator Gil Schoenberg, at the end of the memorial assembly the audience was honored with the song of hope.

At the end of the moving ceremony, the chairman of the Kiryat Eliezer neighborhood committee, Ms. Vared Hanin, said: "The Memorial Day ceremony for the martyrs of the Israeli forces in the Kiryat Eliezer neighborhood moves me every year, this year it was really sad, painful and sad that due to the "Iron Swords" war, which, unfortunately, is still ongoing For half a year, the three soldiers from the Kiryat Eliezer neighborhood, the fallen heroes, were recently added to the monument. I hope that new names will never be added to this monument and in Israel in general. I have every hope that the residents of the neighborhood from big to small will respect the monument that is right in the heart of the neighborhood and will preserve it and its dignity, the death of the soldiers of the Kiryat Eliezer neighborhood commanded our lives."

Meanwhile, we note that the monument in Kiryat Eliezer was erected on the stone platform, is on the edge of a lawn and in the shade of trees, was established and built in 1969 at the initiative of the Kiryat Eliezer neighborhood committee and the municipality, it is built of three tall gun-like columns whose shafts face the ground and are embedded in the base, in the hope that there will no longer be a need in them and there will be no more wars. On one of the pillars is a plaque with the names of all 49 of the neighborhood's fallen, on the base of the monument is an IDF symbol and a verse from David's lament: "How heroes fell". The memory of our dear IDF martyrs and victims of hostilities will remain in our hearts forever!

The ceremony was held in the capacity of the Deputy Mayor of Haifa Ms. Adv. Sharit Golan-Steinberg, The chairman of the neighborhood committee, Mrs. Vared Hanin, the rabbi of the Kiryat Eliezer neighborhood, the honorable Rabbi Shmuel Kaplan, the Chabad rabbi of the neighborhood, the honorable Rabbi Shalich Yosef Lipash, many members of the bereaved families, the students of the schools in the neighborhood, the soldiers of the naval wing of the Navy, and hundreds of residents of the Kiryat neighborhood Eliezer today as well as residents of a neighborhood who lived there in the past, old residents alongside young couples with their children and alongside residents from nearby neighborhoods all came to honor the memory of the fallen.