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Thursday, April 4, 2019
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Thursday, April 4, 2019
At Baumel funeral, Rivlin vows Israel ‘will not rest until all our boys brought home’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePresident Reuven Rivlin in his eulogy for Sgt. First Class Zachary Baumel says that Israel will not rest until all other IDF soldiers killed in battle have been returned home.
“After 37 years you gave come home, to our land to Jerusalem,” he says at the ceremony held at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem.
“To our soldiers in the past present and future, you must know that we will not rest until everyone has been returned home,” he says.
“Today we can finally tell [Baumel’s father] that, even though you didn’t live to see this day, the mission to bring Zachary has been completed.”
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