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Tonight will be a resurrection to the value of unity.

No, not through words that are revealed in their emptiness minutes after being thrown into space.

It is a unity which is rooted in the sacrifice of the lives of two, two warriors whose deaths became a myth.

A myth, which in truth has been forgotten and forgotten.

75 years ago, Meir Feinstein, a Etzel fighter, and Moshe Barzani, a Lehi fighter, denied victory from the enemy of those days.

The victory was about to take place due to the execution of the two.

They chose to dismiss the executioner from prison in the Russian compound.

In the dead of night, while they are hugging, and a hand grenade is tight between them.

The grenade, wrapped in an orange peel, they decided to blow up while hugging it.

The hand grenade was installed especially for the success of the cruel mission the two had imposed on themselves, a loss of knowledge.

This suicidal act was singled out as an unusual move among the hanged immigrants.

The executioner was a single witness to the song of hope from the gallows napkins, before their souls left.

In the days following the deaths of Feinstein and Barzani, the affair of their deaths was not highlighted as such a unique act.

After the establishment of the state, for which they themselves blew up the hand grenade smuggled into them, not everyone thought that the two deserved to be considered the protagonists of another miraculous act, another myth, enacted on the way to the state.

The former Irgun commander, Menachem Begin, who came to light after the establishment of the state, was the one who reminded his listeners in the squares of the lesson of the two's self-sacrifice. It is possible that the message of unity among the people, as instilled by Feinstein and Barzani, was what motivated President Herzog to accede to the request of one of the relatives of the two, and to be the subject of the state's speech at the rally.

His remarks tonight at the memorial service, on the 75th anniversary of their deaths, may be a sign of the need for unity, not necessarily a sign of political consensus.

Eliezer, Meir Feinstein's nephew, told us about the efforts he made to give up the two's relatives, so that in the future the act of the two would not be lost or obscured.

By the way, the immediate, urgent need to rehabilitate the prison where prisoners of all political persuasions were imprisoned during British rule (due diligence: my father, Abba Ahimair, was a resident of Cell 19, and the enactment of his name from his time in prison can be seen on the windowsill).

I hope that tonight's rally will be an incentive to do so: those involved, the Defense Ministry staff, will do so that the former prison will be restored, so that many will visit the prisons, which are suitable for any educational and educational need, so that they can see and remember.

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