Live broadcast from Mount Herzl
The Day of Remembrance for the Fallen of Israel's systems and hostilities will close this evening (Tuesday) with a state ceremony on Mount Herzl, and immediately after that there will be a ceremony to light the beacons to mark 75 years of Israel's independence.
The ceremony, under the sign of "Pioneers", will open with the raising of the state flag and then the blessing of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will be projected.
The ceremony will take place under great tension due to the organizers' fear of "provocations", as they define it, by opponents of the legal revolution promoted by the government.
Following the political and social situation, opposition leader Yair Lapid announced that he would not attend the ceremony. "You left me no choice," he wrote. This".
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This year, the 12 beacons will be carried by Brigadier General Avigdor Kahalani, basketball coach David Blatt and comedian Shalom Esseig, along with 11 other Israelis. Kahalani is the recipient of the Heroic Decoration and the Exemplary Decoration from the battles in which he fought in the Six Day Wars and Yom Kippur. And on Yom Kippur he commanded a regiment in the battle of the Baka Valley in the Golan. "Avigdor Kahalani is a symbol and example of dedication, leadership and Zionism," said Regev. "Together with him will stand on the stage all the tens of thousands who fought fifty years ago on the battlefields of the Golan and Sinai, on land, in the air and at sea.
Heroes of the Yom Kippur War to whom the State of Israel owes its life."
Regev also announced that she had also chosen the creator of Shalom Essayig from among the public committee's recommendations.
In the words of the committee, it was stated that Essig, winner of the Television Academy Award, is "one of the first stand-up comedians who appeared on Channel 2 at the beginning of his career. Since then, he has been a film and television actor, producer, screenwriter, editor, host and leading television creator. In all his years on stage and on the screen, Essig has not distanced himself from his family's heritage and his hometown Carmel Castle, to which his family immigrated from Morocco. He chose to use art to tell the story of his family and his community - out of a deep sense of love, belonging and compassion, and evoked empathy among immigrant families from all diasporas."
Basketball coach David Blatt was also chosen to light a beacon this year.
"Blatt, a basketball player and basketball coach, is one of the most popular athletes in Israel and is responsible for many of the achievements of Israeli basketball," the announcement said.
"He began his sports career at American universities, but after his participation in the Maccabiah games he decided to immigrate to Israel and became involved in the world of Israeli basketball - first as a player and later as a legendary coach, who is considered one of the greatest coaches in the history of Israeli sports."
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The Independence Day ceremony on Mount Herzl, last year (Photo: Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel)
Also chosen to light the entrepreneurial torch was Sion Yaari, founder and CEO of the "Innovation Africa" association. Yaari arrived in Madagascar in Africa 20 years ago as an employee of an international corporation. the Israeli in the remote villages of Africa," the announcement said. The association that Yaari founded at the age of 24 today provides solar energy, agricultural equipment and water infrastructure in over 100 different projects to over a million people in Africa, and contributes greatly to the fight against hunger on the continent, to the establishment of the medical system and to the operation of schools and institutions Education.
Also chosen to light the beacon was the agriculturalist Vared Ben Saadon, who was born in the Netherlands to the Grimm family, immigrated to Israel and settled in Samaria.
Together with her husband Erez, they built their home in the village of Bracha in Samaria, and invested all their savings in purchasing twenty dunams of a vineyard and later in opening a winery called Tora.
"Despite many struggles and difficulties, the family winery became a high-quality boutique winery, which wins international awards and brings respect to the entire Israeli wine industry," the announcement said.
Another beacon light is Nina Avidar Winner, co-founder and honorary chairwoman of the ISAF Foundation.
Avidar was born in Alexandria, Egypt.
In the 1950s, she worked in youth immigration camps in France and Israel.
"I saw the children, with sparks of wisdom in their eyes, with no chance of getting a good education and fulfilling themselves. It broke my heart, for them and for all the people of Israel," Avidar said.
She turned to the Jewish philanthropist Edmond Safra with a pioneering idea - the establishment of a fund that would help young people who immigrated from Eastern countries realize their educational potential.
"From then until today, under Nina's leadership as president of the foundation, ISAF has been and still is the leading philanthropic group in the development of social and academic leadership in Israel," the statement said.
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He will not come to the ceremony (photo: Walla! system, Elad Gutman)
Prof. Avi Rivkind from the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem will also be among the torch lighters.
Rivkind is one of the pioneers of trauma medicine in Israel.
In the announcement it was stated that "for many years he was at the forefront of the medical response to victims of terrorism in the capital, and he is the leader of the national initiative 'Young people drive differently' to explain the risk of careless driving. Prof. Rivkind is accompanied by the volunteering of many medical and aid organizations, advises the chief medical officer of the IDF in the field of general surgery and trauma, and leads the Israel Conference for Medicine, which he initiated and established."
Educator Yehudit Ngusa was also chosen to light a beacon. Ngusa is the founder and head of the pre-military training school "Achishana HaShishna", which operates in Kibbutz Ein HaSholoshka, near the Gaza border. The training school is aimed at boys who have received an exemption from recruitment on the grounds of non-compliance and a criminal record, and are ready to go through an intensive change process, giving them a second chance for significant military service.
Regev informed the Chief of Staff that she had approved his recommendation to select Lt. Col. D, commander of the Dovdvan unit to light a beacon.
"Lt. Col. D. is one of the best sons of this country," the announcement said, "a wounded IDF man who has recovered and returned to full combat service, and leads his soldiers every day and every night to unknown and daring operations, thanks to which we can all sleep peacefully. Lt. Col. D. .
It will stand there in the name of all our secret fighters, who with courage, ingenuity and great humanity defend the State of Israel and its citizens."
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One of the beacon lighters (Photo: Reuven Castro)
17-year-old Reot Amichai from Moshav Neta in the Lachish region, a volunteer of the New Guardian organization, is also on the list of beacon lighters.
The "New Guardian", says the announcement, is an "educational and Zionist social organization founded in 2007 by a group of volunteers who love the land, in order to assist and empower farmers and enforcement agents in safeguarding the country's lands and at the same time connect the residents of the entire country, with an emphasis on the younger generation, to the land, to the love of the land , Zionism and mutual guarantee".
Another team to light a torch is Dr. Hatam Hussein from the Rambam Hospital in Haifa.
Hossein, who specialized in internal medicine and infectious diseases at Rambam, served as a senior physician in the infectious diseases unit. In 2011, she was appointed to coordinate the field of infection control at the hospital. Today, she manages the infection prevention unit and leads pioneering clinical research on hospital-acquired infections and resistant bacteria, and in May She will begin her new role as deputy director of the Galilee Medical Center. The announcement states that "During the fight against the corona virus, Dr. Hossein managed the corona system at Rambam Hospital, and was appointed director of two dedicated wards for the reception of corona patients.
On the side of her work, she serves as a senior clinical lecturer at the Technion's Faculty of Medicine, and is a member of medical conferences."
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will appear in a recorded blessing (Photo: Government Press Office, Kobi Gideon)
The businessman and philanthropist Sylvan Adams was also chosen to light a torch, in consultation with Diaspora Minister Amichai Shikli.
The announcement said: "As a teenager in the early 1970s in Canada, Sylvan Adams was revolted by the gap between the wonderful, pioneering and flourishing state of Israel that he knew, and the global media coverage of Israel. The Zionist education and the personal example he received in the Jewish community in Canada led him, as an adult, to look for ways News and creativity for positive exposure of Israel's beautiful face."
Eliyahu Salah, one of the founders of Moshav Shatula, who also lit a beacon, immigrated from Kurdistan to Israel near the establishment of the state.
As a lone soldier he participated in Israel's wars and was one of the founders of the Moshav Shatula on the northern border.
For many years he was engaged in agriculture and industry, despite the constant threat of Katyusha facing Moshav from Lebanon.
The Ofek Rishon girl, the activist against bullying and boycotts in schools, closes the list of torchlighters.
For six years, from first grade to sixth grade, Ofek Rishon endured a brutal boycott led by the children of her class.
The announcement stated that she chose to "bravely reveal her story to the entire Israeli society, and turned her difficult personal experiences into a source of strength and a mission."
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