This year will be unlike any other as Israel mourns the loss of countless security forces and victims of terror killed since October 7, and we pray for our soldiers still fighting in the war.
Those on the site can light virtual candles in their honor. They will also have a place to write personalized condolences to the loved ones left behind that will be hand-delivered to the families.
This year, Remembrance Day will be especially poignant, given the loss of more than 1,200 of our brothers and sisters on October 7, and hundreds more in the ensuing and ongoing war against Hamas.
We survive not just because we remember the past but because we understand that, no matter what, we have a future. Am Yisrael chai!
This year, hundreds of families – who in the past were merely empathetic observers of the Remembrance Day rituals – will now be active participants.
Even if all goes well with the ceremonies this year, broader issues will continue to plague Israel for the foreseeable future.
“My father was my entire world. It was through the support of OneFamily that I felt there was somebody to check on me,” says Shira Mark-Harif, whose father was killed in a terror attack.
The application, "Memory Paths," allows individuals to navigate to graves in military cemeteries, giving users information about the fallen buried there.
The exhibition will feature 25 virtual video testimonies in Hebrew and English, filmed and produced by producer Noam Shalev.
The report showed that of the 760 soldiers who lost their lives this year, 711 were killed since the start of the Israel-Hamas war.
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