What should we take from Independence Day? • Avi Nachmani's opinion

What do you leave the national days with?

"Like any love for a brother, no matter how much you are asked to explain, it is not always possible to tell what makes your brother so special and why he will never have a replacement, because above all, love of the brother, because he is a brother. But when you still have to explain About love, all that can be done is to point out the dozens of special shades in his personality, which shed light on the question of "why", why do we love our brothers - our people".

This moving and moving text belongs to Menachem Clemenzon, the recent winner of the Israel Prize, whose brother fell on the seventh of October and in his words this week, moved an entire nation from the stage of the ceremony. Menachem's speech is added to the moving speech of Ofra Lex, who bereaved her son, a combatant of the Israel Defense Forces patrol in Bari, to the moving words of Hagai Lober, a bereaved father who bereaved his son in Gaza, and dozens of other bereaved parents who reluctantly joined the bereaved family of the State of Israel and the IDF and move us, unfortunately , every time again with powerful words and speeches.

The things are exciting, do not leave a single dry eye, enter the heart and hopefully stay in the heart. Everyone's message is one: we are brothers. We probably won't forget Memorial Day for the Fallen of Israel's systems and Independence Day this year, 1948. What we didn't have in them. Independence under war, alarms during ceremonies, crashes and interceptions, and unfortunately also deaths. For the first time since the establishment of the state in XNUMX, the State of Israel notes its independence under war.

come out strengthened

From this week of national days, we must leave strengthened with messages of unity and reconciliation as requested by the bereaved families. To come out strengthened and to draw hope from values ​​that the families instill in us that where they stand, completely righteous people cannot stand. Values ​​of bravery, strength, stature, pride and a lot of hope and faith in the righteousness of the way. And the main thing is not to be drawn into conflicts and internal wars between us. Because we are brothers.

** The writer is the spokesperson for the World Federation of Moroccan Jewry