Last honor for the first paratroopers: The
late Private Martin Davidovich was laid to rest today (Thursday) in a full military ceremony held at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem. 1948. The operation to raise his bones from the Czech Republic was first published in "Israel Today".
The ceremony was held in the presence of the family of the late Martin, Deputy Defense Minister Alon Schuster and the head of the ACA, Maj. Gen. The paratroopers, Colonel Yoav Brunner, and participants in the delegation.
The bones of the first paratrooper were buried on Mount Herzl, Photo: IDF Spokesman
This week, a special delegation went to Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, to bury the bones of the IDF casualty, the late Private Martin Davidovich, in Israel.
Yesterday, the delegation returned on a military flight to Israel together with the coffin containing the bones of the late Private Davidovich.
"The late Martin Davidovich is an example and role model of endless giving for the security of Jews around the world," said Deputy Defense Minister Alon Schuster. The task, it is our moral and value duty.
We will continue to turn every stone and do everything possible to bring the captives and the missing to Israel. "
Deputy Defense Minister Alon Schuster at a ceremony on Mount Herzl, Photo: IDF Spokesman
The head of the Personnel Division, Major General Yaniv Assur, paid tribute to the late Davidovich:
This is a deep and authentic commitment, which prevents deep, evil outgrowing generations and continents and connects us with all those who paid the most precious price for the restoration, independence and security of the State of Israel. "
ACA chief Yaniv Asur, Photo: IDF Spokesman
Maj. Gen. Assur added: "Martin, your generation has dreamed of the state and fought for its rebirth, we live in a generation for which the dream has become a reality. We have established a prosperous and flourishing state, a state of Hebrew culture that relies on a chain of generations. And the Israel Defense Forces are fulfilling a moral debt to Martin and his family, and who will allow his burial in the land of the Land of Israel to be a measure of comfort. In this position we are also fulfilling a moral debt to ourselves. As a people and as an army. "
Yoav Brunner, paratrooper brigade commander, Photo: IDF Spokesman
