Opinion | In their deaths they commanded us the need for leadership Israel today

I did not know my grandfather, Oved Cohen Arazi.

He was killed during the battles of the War of Independence.

On June 3, 1948, two Egyptian planes dropped bombs on Rishon Lezion.

Twenty-five people were killed in the same bombing, including soldiers and children.

People who came to the scene to help the wounded told my grandfather's family members that he was with his fingers on his eyes, as someone who was saying the Shema Yisrael prayer.

In one of the drawers of my life is kept a yellowing newspaper clipping, in which a 50-word article tells of what happened that day.

My grandfather is one of the 24,068 victims of the Israeli wars, whose lives, as the article of the right cliché struck, commanded us to live, and to our leaders we marked the direction - lead!

Leadership, according to the dictionary, is the ability of an individual or a group of people to lead others toward a common goal.

The subject of leadership has occupied scholars and philosophers for thousands of years.

Aristotle wrote that leadership is made up of belief, reasoning and pathos.

The question of whether a person is born with or acquires leadership skills during his lifetime has also preoccupied researchers, to which an unequivocal answer has not yet been given.

In the State of Israel, the issue of leadership is central, important and critical to its continued existence.

The history of Israel's independence in his country indicates that they failed to hold sovereignty for long periods, and the reason - internal rifts, which weakened the kingdom and led to the expulsion of the Jewish people from his country for thousands of years.

In 1948 her miracle.

The Jewish people came to the Land of Israel from all over the world and established a state, revived the Hebrew language, fought for its life and realized the Zionist revolution, which is perhaps the only revolution among those that began in the early 20th century that succeeded and survived.

On May 5, 1948, David Ben-Gurion announced the establishment of the State of Israel, but God forbid we assume that our war of independence is over. We are still in progress. Our borders are not fixed; our enemies seek to destroy us; Are heard throughout the country, with an emphasis on the Gaza Strip and the Lebanese border, but the center also experiences them many times.

While the citizen from the locality understands his role and contribution to the existence of the state - serving in the military, paying taxes and keeping the law - there is a sense that our leaders have been a bit bragging about navigation.

Sometimes there is a sense that their political future and well-being are driving them, and not our future and well-being.

One of the former generals in the IDF used to say: "It is our soldiers who will save us from our enemies and from our leaders."

It always puts a smile on the listeners' lips, but deep within the sentence lies a deep distrust of leaders.

In the Prime Ministers.

Meats.

In the whole government.

In recent years, the political polarization in Israel has intensified.

Everything is measured on the right and left.

You criticize Netanyahu's conduct - you are "Smolan".

You support her - you're a babysitter.

You support Bennett and his policies as prime minister - you are a leftist even if you voted for the right.

And if you visit him - you're probably right-wing "on full" bibist.

The ability of our leaders to rise above events and chart a path, has also become right and left.

Political teasing has become a predictor of everything.

Bennett did not mention Iran in his speech on the eve of Holocaust Martyrs 'and Heroes' Remembrance Day, so Netanyahu tweeted that next year, when he becomes prime minister, he will talk about Iran - and swept the world of likes after him.

When Netanyahu was seen standing at the alarm on Holocaust Day with his hands in his pockets, the left immediately attacked - is he not ashamed?

These and these are wrong.

We want our leaders freed from the shackles of social media.

We want their full senses and abilities to focus on us.

In our well-being.

In our safety.

In our existence.

We ask that they not try to fulfill the wish of the base who sent them to the position, but rather that they ascend to the height of the position for which they were chosen, and remember that we are all their base.

Then, we can know for sure that we will preserve our sovereignty forever.

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