Thanks to their way and their work, 13 women and men will carry the 12 beacons in honor of our 72 years of independence. • Just before the ceremony to be held this year in the shadow of the epidemic, they tell us what Israelis are for them.

Adi Altshuler: "Living Room Memory" and "Krambo Wings"

Israel to me is the Israeli, like my neighbor, who, after giving birth, enveloped me and taught me the special power of a tribe of women. Like Holocaust survivors, Miriam Torch, Hannah Sulfur and Shosh Trister, with us in "Living Room Remembrance" from the beginning. Israeli women are the root and essence of giving, empowering and breaking all conventions.

Col. Hisham Ibrahim: Shizafon Brigade

Israel is a global wonder established on a strong foundation and values ​​of sanctifying life. Over time, the state integrated all its citizens into its institutions and became a hegemony of cultures and other and different inclusions, and I, as a member of the Druze community in Israel, take pride in the country and identify with its symbols. Israel is a home where I am free to belong to my people and my values.

Prof. Galia Rahav: Specialist in infectious diseases at Shiba Hospital

Israel to me is a home. A house that absorbed my parents from the Holocaust and all the Diaspora Jews. The special language with all the new words you have to know to be in the business. A mixture of origins, foods, cultures, languages. When one falls down the street, where in the world will ten people run to help? Noisy, democratic and not the most polite. This is my Israel. 

Israel Almsi: Director of Friends - Road Assistance 

The Land of Israel For me, it is a land that the Creator of the world always looks after, and includes a spectacular human mosaic. A country that has a marvelous reciprocal state that translates into helping and assisting each other, on routine days and especially on challenging emergencies.

Eli Ben Name: Chairman of the Yad Laban organization 

Israel for me is first of all the memorial hall on Mount Herzl where 23,816 fallen Israeli systems are being celebrated, among them the late Kobi. . 

Mezawi Jasmine: MDA paramedic

Israel for me is an inspiration to make a dream a reality. To be an Israeli is to be open, mutual and warm.

Israel is an open and safe home, where there is spectacular nature and food that is the most delicious in the world. The State of Israel is a lioness that protects its cubs. 

Tzipi Shavit: Artist

Israel is the homeland, the most special place, with its wonderful people, the army, the great doctors and artists, the most beautiful children and the exiting activists. Israel is hummus and falafel, and watermelon and salty cheese, and on the eve of Memorial Day and Independence Day and Flags and Mimuna and the country I am most excited to land in when I return from anywhere in the world. 

Reina Abitball: Volunteer at Shaare Zedek Hospital

To be an Israeli is to be a Zionist and to love the Land of Israel with all your capitals and thank God that we have the privilege of immigrating to Jerusalem, living there and raising 10 children there because we have no other home. To be an Israeli is to volunteer, every day, 5 times a week, even at the age of 92, because giving is food for the soul and it enriches the person spiritually. 

Rebbetzin Laurie Plotnik: The Diaspora Beacon

 The place my heart and soul longs for, is attracted to it. Israel is my beacon - it is the light that lifts and guides me.

Israel is my mission, where I, with God's help, create a new future for my family and my people.

Idan Raichel: Artist

He was chosen to record a beacon for his musical work, which symbolizes to many the mutual guarantee and Israeli sense of "togetherness". 

Uri Cohen: CEO of "Israeli Journey"  

Israel is a dream come true and a longing for generations. Walk the path of the Negev and the Galilee Mountains, walk through the alleys of Jerusalem, and return home. The connection of all of us with the power of diversity, to feel belonging. 

Yael Viluzny-Azulai: a nurse at Barzilai Hospital

Israel to me is a home, it is my roots. On my mother's father's side, I am 12th generation in the country. My family is one of the founding founders of the Ma'ale and the corner. Israeliism is mutual assistance at all times. 

Ahmed Blaune: A brother in the Corona Department of Fourier Hospital

Israel is where I was born, raised and moved forward, this is the place I am most eager to return to when I am abroad and this is the place I feel most at home when I return.