The results of the direct hit to a residence in Kiryat Shmona/ Kiryat Shmona municipality spokeswoman
"From the ends of the earth gather and immigrate workers, many of them pioneers who came from close to the edge of the Upper Galilee to commemorate Yosef Trumpeldor and his comrades, on the anniversary of their fall," is how Dov Rabin, a pioneer of the third aliyah, described the first memorial to the martyrs of Tel Hai.
A year earlier, on March 1, 1920, the battle took place in which Yosef Trumpeldor and five other defenders of the place fell.
A short time before, two more residents of the point were killed in two different incidents.
Immediately after the famous battle, Tel Hai became a powerful national myth.
The obituary written by Berel Katznelson in memory of the fallen became a "remember" version in memory of the martyrs of Israel's systems, and the spontaneous memorial ceremonies became in the course of a few years national ceremonies in the Land of Israel and in Jewish communities in the Diaspora.
The State of Israel even declared the 11th of Adar ceremony as a state ceremony, in which the president and the prime minister also participate, sometimes both and sometimes one of them. However, this year's 11th of Adar, which will be celebrated in four days, will not be held a state ceremony.
The mass grave of Tel Hai soldiers in the military section of the Kfar Giladi cemetery is in a war zone.
The residents of Kfar Giladi were evacuated, and only members of the standby squad remained in the kibbutz.
The same is true in the nearby settlements, including Kiryat Shmona - the neighboring city that bears the name of eight victims of the Battle of Tel Hai.
"The fact that Tel Hai Day will not be celebrated this year encapsulates the whole event that we have been in since October."
Netanyahu at the state memorial ceremony in 1999/Government Press Office, Avi Ohion
The myth of Tel-Hai began to develop even before the battle, as a symbol of holding onto the land and sentences written by the local people were burned as founding texts.
Aharon Sher, a member of Kinneret who came to the aid of Tel Hai and was shot to death in February 1920 while working in the field, wrote a month before his death: "We do not need an occupying army living on its sword, but a camp of workers who knew how to hold the shelah. We need a worker who knew how to protect his plow. Don't give the Galil the top to fall".
A more familiar quote is heard from Yosef Trumpeldor, who receives many mentions especially after the October 7 disaster: "Where the Jewish plow plows the last furrow - that's where our border will cross."
Holding a memorial ceremony at the grave of the fallen began as already mentioned on the first anniversary.
For half a year the settlement of Tel-Hai was desolate and abandoned after that terrible battle, and it was not until October 1920 that the place was settled.
Despite the point being isolated, far away and threatening, 300 people came to the memorial on the anniversary of the fall of the fighters.
Dov Rabin and his friends from the group "Grodno" in Batalit arrived at the ceremony "tired and torn" after several days of travel: after traveling by train to Tzemach, they walked for "three days of walking, some in the rain and mud", described Rabin.
In the work written by Professor Amir Goldstein of the Tel Hai Academic College, he notes that "the clearest example of a pilgrimage of a national nature during the settlement period is the visits to the Tel Hai courtyard and the tombs of its defenders, which contributed to making the Tel Hai myth central to the collective memory of the Zionist settlements."
He points out that "a few days after the battle at Tel Hai, Moshe Smilansky announced in Ha'aretz that 'the place where the defenders fell will be a pilgrimage center for educators and students,' and indeed already in the 1920s, the pilgrimage to Tel Hai was a recognized social phenomenon."
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The youth movements of the right and the left fought for the appropriation of the Tel-Hai memory and for holding ceremonies there, the movement.
The National Committee extended its patronage to the grave and Bader 1334, February 1934, in the unveiling ceremony of the roaring lion tombstone of the sculptor Aharon Melnikov on the mass grave, the heads of the National Committee, the Jewish Agency and Keren Hayesod participated, among others. The State of Israel declared the 11th of Bader as Zion Day State called "Yom Tel Chai".
According to Nissan Zavi, a member of Kibbutz Kfar Giladi, "The fact that Tel-Hai Day will not be celebrated this year encapsulates the entire event that we have been involved in since October and the civilian evacuation of the Upper Galilee. Not celebrating Tel-Hai Day is like not celebrating Jerusalem Day ".
Zeevi, the operators of Lobby 1701, said that "we are struggling to keep the embers and the values for which we live here."
These days Lobby 1701 is distributing a quote from the words of Aryeh Sher in an article he wrote a few weeks before he fell: "No one leaves the place, no one gives up on what is built."
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