The State of Israel was built as a national home for the Jewish people under the commandment - never again.
A testament engraved in the blood of six million Jews, which the Holocaust survivors who survived the inferno and chose to immigrate to the Land of Israel carry on their backs.
They promised themselves and their descendants that the state they established would be a safe haven for the Jews, and that the systematic murder of the Jewish people would not occur here again.
About 150,000 Holocaust survivors live in Israel today.
On October 7, memories of the past in him.
The nightmare of their childhood came back to haunt them, and our will to them "never again" was shattered into the settlements surrounding Gaza in the form of beasts of prey that wanted to kill every Jew that came their way.
Holocaust survivors are now not only refugees in their own country, but also citizens of a country now accused of the unthinkable charge of attempted genocide.
We went to war with no choice against those who seek our lives - and we are now forced to deal with a terrible blood plot
Since then, when they are in their ninth decade of life, the Holocaust survivors experience the inferno again.
They live in existential anxieties, some have lost children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, others have lost a home or been displaced from it and are now refugees in their own country.
Many of the Holocaust survivors in Israel are exposed to the danger of shelling without an accessible and safe shelter for them.
"I was born under shelling and I dreamed of the Jewish state, I will die under shelling in the Jewish state," one of the Holocaust survivors who lives with severe anxiety told me.
Another Holocaust survivor who was evacuated from his home in Kibbutz Ba'otef promised to return: "I lost one house in the Holocaust - I will not give up this house."
Almost 2,000 survivors from the south and north of the country have been refugees in their country for almost four months.
The mind does not grasp this and we must not allow it.
The thought that they will not get to return to their home is the most difficult experience for them.
79 years after the end of World War II, Holocaust survivors are once again forced to seek shelter from those seeking their lives.
Once again Jews are murdered because of their Jewishness and again they lose their home - but this time here, in the Jewish state.
And while the survivors of the Holocaust are stranded in their place of refuge in the Land of the Jews, praying for the return of their grandchildren and children from the war or from the captivity of Hamas animals, the State of Israel is facing an international trial for war crimes.
Holocaust survivors are now not only refugees in their own country, but also citizens of a country now accused of the unthinkable charge of attempted genocide.
We went to war with no choice against those who seek our lives - and we are now forced to deal with a terrible blood plot, an expression of the classic anti-Semitism that Holocaust survivors knew intimately as children.
The global phenomenon we see today, of hatred of the Jews and hatred of Israel, is an expression of Nazism that never disappeared, only took on a new form.
In the face of the Nazis who are again trying to exterminate us, we draw strength and resilience from the Holocaust survivors who rose from the ashes with strength of body and soul, built a home and a country for us and most of them managed to rehabilitate themselves and start families here in the Land of Israel.
They are the lighthouse to which we look, they are the basis of our resilience, and even today they are the anchor of all of us.
It is incumbent upon us to win this war, return them to their homes, guarantee them peace and security in their old age and fulfill the commandment - never again.
Despite the difficulty, the challenges and what sometimes seems impossible - the lust for life is stronger than anything and we have someone to learn from how to do it in the best way, say and realize - never again.
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