Members of the security and rescue forces took part in the lighting of the menorah on the eighth night of Hannukah (Thursday) with Knesset Chairman MK Amir Ohana, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, and other MKs, where they told their own personal stories of the war.
The Knesset chairman, along with officer Yonathan Ben Hamo and members of the Taaseh family, said the blessing on the candles together. Ohana then spoke at the ceremony: “The spirit resting now on the battlefield – among the soldiers from Judea and Samaria, alongside the members of the kibbutzim, Tel Avivians and Beer Shevites, religious and non-religious, Druze, Muslims, Christians, Jews, brothers, soldiers – needs to also be the lot of the residents of this house and the while nation. This is the lesson of the front.”
“This is the lesson of the Seventh of October. And not just in time of war. Shoulder to shoulder – with the arguments, at times, but without hatred. We will light the last light of Hannukah in a prayer for the return home, safe and sound, of all our hostages and all our soldiers and security forces in Gaza and in the different sectors.”
