Ram Koller during an aerial exercise over the Judean Desert in the summer of 1988. Maj. Ehud Falk, an air force pilot, was killed together with Lt. Soon after him, before the one-year mourning period in Merhavia was over, a son was born to Ehud Shahar’s cousin Adina and her husband Simha. The first infant was Ehud Shtock, son of Ruth and Asa, born in the middle of the thirty-day mourning period after Ehud Shahar fell in battle. The four Ehuds cited by President Isaac Herzog in his speech (clockwise from top left): Ehud Shtock, Ehud Shahar, Ehud Falk, Ehud Borenovski. And you, dear and beloved members of this family of grief, keep dying over them day by day. I keep dying over you, day by day… Day by day, I die over you all over again.” Thus he wrote. The poet Natan Yonatan, who lost his son, First Lieutenant Lior Yonatan, in the Yom Kippur War, wrote thus: “My beautiful son. A moment that speaks to the essence of this week, the essence of the State of Israel itself: from the deepest grief to the miracle of independence and rebirth. A moment that seeks to open the gates of heaven on Judgment Day, to plead for the People of Israel in judgment. A moment that plucks the chords of our souls. The siren that sliced through our lives a few minutes ago is the purest moment in the Israeli calendar.
President Isaac Herzog’s speech at the State Opening Ceremony for Memorial Day for Israel’s Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Hostile Acts at the Western Wall Plaza in Jerusalem, Tuesday.
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