"Remembering the Tragic Fate": On Mount Herzl, they reunited with Ethiopian Jews who perished on their way to Israel

The state memorial service for Ethiopian Jews takes place today and is celebrated in parallel with the Jerusalem Day celebrations.

The ceremony was attended by Prime Minister Bennett, President Herzog, Minister of Immigration and Absorption Pnina Temano Sheta and other participants.

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Uri Sela

29/05/2022

Sunday, 29 May 2022, 14:46 Updated: 15:14

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In the video: Bennett responds to Rabbi Meir Mazuz and says - "Even at the height of the debates - we will not compare our brothers to the greatest of our oppressors" (Photo: Contact)

The state memorial service for Ethiopian Jews who perished on their way to Israel takes place today (Sunday) and is celebrated in parallel with the Jerusalem Day celebrations.

The ceremony was attended by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, President Yitzhak Herzog, Minister of Immigration and Absorption Pnina Tamano Sheta and other participants.

Prime Minister Bennett said at the ceremony that on this day we pledge that Jerusalem will never be divided again and the people of Israel will never be divided again.

"Even at the height of the controversy and the heat - we will not compare our brothers to the great oppressors," he said.

"We must guard our tongues from evil. We are brothers. On this day we mark the unity of our capital and the unity of our people."

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"Remember the tragic fate."

Herzog at the ceremony (Photo: Flash 90, Mark Israel Salem)

President Yitzhak Herzog also spoke at the state ceremony and said that the State of Israel today commemorates the memory of the most precious of all.

"We remember the tragic fate, but seek to revive in our hearts the life, the stories, the heroism, the inconceivable strengths, the cultural richness and the strong roots, the identity of the Ethiopian Jewish community," he said.

"We mourn today the untimely loss of life, the shattering of the hope they carried with them, and the great void left by their loved ones."

"The way you did, the way of those who did not get to complete the journey, is the way of all of us. The way of an entire people. When you went communism, you walked us communism. "And our sons, from generation to generation until the last generation. This is our duty, and this is our great right."

"We are brothers."

Bennett at the ceremony (Photo: Flash 90, Mark Israel Salem)

"We are the generation that has been privileged to fulfill a dream."

Temanu sailed at the ceremony (Photo: Flash 90, Mark Israel Salem)

Minister of Aliyah and Absorption Pnina Tamano Sheta spoke and said that we must remember that in the deaths of our loved ones they commanded us life, they commanded us to continue marching to Jerusalem.

"We gather here once a year to remember and commemorate the greatest loss that Ethiopian Jewry has known, the greatest loss that many families have known on their way to Israel, the ones we will cherish who are no longer with us," she added.

"It was almost the dream and it broke, but the dream came true, and despite the rift, the community slowly rose to its feet, came here to Jerusalem in its glory, and we the generation that did get to fulfill a dream."

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