Today (Thursday), President Yitzhak Herzog and his wife Michal hosted the company fighters of the late Bar-El Hadaria Shmueli, a border fighter who was wounded in a shooting incident on the Gaza border last month and died of his wounds, and Amir Cohen, a border commander. From the undercover unit of the Southern Border Police, which operates within the southern borders of the State of Israel and within the country in the Southern District.
Singer Adir Getz also joined the exciting meeting.
While Bar-El was fighting for his life in the hospital, his commander sent a video to Getz, in which he filmed Bar-El performing one of his songs - "Just the Way She Is", months before the injury.
The singer released the video and wrote that he hopes to sing the song together with Bar-El.
Today, after the death of the border fighter, Getz came to sing the song in his memory together with his company members at the President's House.
The late Border Patrol fighter Bar-El Hadaria Shmueli sang the song of Adir Getz
R., a friend of the late Bar-El who served with him on the team, told the president about Bar-El and the special bond that existed between the two: And we have taken a common part in many operational activities that I will not detail. He was for me and my teammates a role model, and in everything we compared ourselves to him and aspired to be like him. "When Bar-El fought for his life in an intensive care unit at Soroka Hospital, the team of doctors was shocked by the amount of mattresses that covered the floor because of all his different relatives, who wanted to be there for him in the difficult moments and be there by his side when he woke up."
The president and his wife were moved by the song and by R.
The president asked to comfort the company fighters on the death of their friend and said "What you do is very important and you can be very proud of yourself. It should be the feeling that accompanies you in your mission and later in life. I think the sheer memory you carry of a soldier "A memory that accompanies and accompanies you all your life and will always give you proportion and meaning in life. You will carry his memory and pass it on from generation to generation and there is great comfort in that."
The president and his wife hosted the company fighters of the late Border Patrol fighter Barel Hadaria Shmueli // Photo: Avi Kenner, Gregory Bado / GPO
"I want to wish you to know only peace and tranquility, to fulfill your missions to the best of your ability and that your corps will succeed in whatever is imposed on it in order to preserve our country. I wish all of us to have a peace arbor "On them and also the ones you take care of in your job. We are all human beings at the end."
President Michal Herzog's wife added with great excitement: "Like all the people of Israel, I watched Bar-El sing the song of Adir Getz and I thank him for coming, I think he moved us all. On behalf of all the mothers, as a warrior's mother, I look at you and I know "How the team is a family for you. I know that Bar-El's departure has left a hole in this family, and I strengthen you and wish you only days of peace."
President Herzog and his wife Michal at a meeting, Photo: Kobi Gideon / GPO
Border Police Commander Amir Cohen thanked the president and his wife for the hospitality and said: "By inviting us, Border Police fighters, to your home, you can see the historical connection between the Border Police and the Herzog family.
The Border Police's relationship with your father President Haim Herzog His memory of blessing began when he served as Jerusalem District Commander and was the first to deploy Border Police forces here in Jerusalem and give them operational responsibility along the city's old municipal border line.
With the liberation of Jerusalem, as the military governor of Judea and Samaria, your father saw the Border Police as an operational and unique force and assigned him the security missions in Judea and Samaria - an activity that continues to this day.
Your father, the sixth president, was also the one who laid the state flag in 1998 in the building of the heritage house to commemorate the victims of the Border Police. "