First of all, this is the first time I have been privileged to see the status of "Outstanding Soldiers" in the Garden of the President's House.
When I started conducting the quiz, Haim Herzog was the president.
He was followed by Ezer Weizmann, Moshe Katsav, Shimon Peres and Reuven Rivlin.
I have never had the privilege of seeing the reason why the prime ministers over the years - Yitzhak Shamir, Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert - entered the hall of the Jerusalem Theater in the middle of the quiz.
This year, for the first time, I saw the President's Garden lit by the sunlight with the glowing light of the outstanding soldiers, and the excited and photographing family members.
In the middle of the ceremony, the broadcast moved from the President's Garden to the nearby hall, the Jerusalem Theater.
How lucky that the places are close ...
Ofer Hadad, the new facilitator, was enthusiastic, eloquent, full of grace and love for the contestants.
It is evident that Ofer Ben Torah.
Since Knesset Speaker Miki Levy was the chairman of the panel of judges, it can be said, on loan from the Knesset, that the quiz showed that "there is a future" and "new hope."
There was a "Likud" atmosphere, people invested "work" in "March".
The two winners are similar: Dvir Chaim Merzbach and Hillel Cohen, from the holy cities of Safed and Jerusalem.
When they faced each other, it seemed as if we had one boy in front of us, and his figure reflected in the mirror.
I remembered that the battle of the minds "head to head", the pearl in the crown, was conceived by Shaul David, the editor and chief producer, on whose labor I relied for decades.
He has been the principal of the Hartman High School in Jerusalem for many years.
This time his student Hillel was one of the two world-class Bible grooms. What luck that Shaul David is no longer the editor and producer ...
I sat in front of the screen and tried to deal with the questions.
My partner enjoyed seeing that most of the time I know how to answer, even when I did not get the answers in advance.
In the afternoon he asked me yes: "Honestly, is it hard to see someone else leading?".
I answered him: "Moshe Rabbeinu came down from Mount Sinai, Yehoshua ben Nun his servant said to him: 'Eldad and Meidad are prophesying in the camp!'
I have already buttered the facilitator, but the main thing is not this or that facilitator - the main thing is the book of books!
The boys and girls who studied it, and read it, and memorized it, in the four wings of the world, gathered to the preparatory camp, climbed Mount Tabor like Deborah and Barak, descended to the port of Jaffa like the prophet Jonah, and ascended from Hebron to Jerusalem like King David.
They will not be able to return to Manhattan in America, Johannesburg in Africa and Antwerp in Europe.
Following the book, and in the fulfillment of the vision of the prophets, they too will be with us in Zion, soon, will rise and come - and forever.
I am happy to see how "With the Book" continues to celebrate with the book its birthday and resurrection in the new age.
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