Last Tuesday was a national Day of Mourning in Israel as grief and anger gripped the nation over the discovery of the bodies of the three young Yeshiva students who had been kidnapped three weeks earlier.
Hundreds of thousands of Israelis turned out for the boys’ funeral services. Protests also broke out across the country as many called out for a more aggressive response from the Israeli government.
Speaking at the funeral of one of the young men, Finance Minister Yair Lapid said, “To bury a child is an unnatural act. Parents are not meant to march at their children’s funerals. It is supposed to be the other way around.”
It is impossible to overstate how painful these events have been for the people of Israel. But it is perhaps the elderly Holocaust survivors of Israel who feel the impact most profoundly.
These remarkable Jewish People have seen too much death. And the way these boys died — shot in the head and buried in a shallow grave — is too chillingly reminiscent of they way many of them witnessed parents and loved ones dying at the hands of the Nazi SS.
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