Exciting:
The Border Police today (Monday) organized a bar mitzvah ceremony for a 94-year-old Holocaust survivor. Aryeh Ronetsky celebrated his bar mitzvah, after 81 years.
Ronetsky immigrated to Israel in 1946 on an illegal immigration ship from a lodge in Poland.
He is from a family of eight.
His parents, one of his brothers and three sisters perished in Auschwitz.
During the Holocaust he was 10. Arieh never got to celebrate the bar mitzvah, and never stopped longing for that day.
This was eventually aided by the Border Police's "Fathers and Sons" project, in which units adopt Holocaust survivors.
Arie Ronetsky, 94-year-old Holocaust survivor, celebrates Bar Mitzvah with Border Police forces / Photo: Police Spokeswoman
The person who helped realize Arya's dream was Sergeant Major Keshet Bashari, a Coast Border Education officer.
"This is a project that has been running for several years at the border.
"One day, about two years ago, I received Arieh's phone call from the Border Police officer, to connect him to one of the units and begin an adoption process," said Major Bashari. .
Yesterday, Arieh called the education officer and told her, "Keshet, we are going to Jerusalem tomorrow."
Rainbow, without hesitation, told him yes.
When they arrived in Jerusalem, Arieh wanted to reach the Western Wall.
"When we got out of the car, he casually told us that he had never celebrated a bar mitzvah," said Major Bashari.
With great determination we entered the Western Wall, and my father informed me: "We are doing a bar mitzvah for Aryeh."
Aria could not hide his excitement.
"It was very exciting after 81 years to celebrate a bar mitzvah. I had many dreams about things I could not do. All my childhood was taken away from me, and now I have fulfilled one of my big dreams."
