Herzog at Six Day War memorial: ‘We are ready and prepared for any scenario’

President Isaac Herzog spoke earlier today at a memorial for Israel’s fallen soldiers from the Six Day War and War of Attrition at Mount Herzl.

“For many of us, the period of the Six Day War and the War of Attrition combines our national and personal memories. My personal memory of the Six Day War is a childhood memory and my first memory, and my wife Michal’s first memory, of Israel’s wars. I was 6 years old. I remember the existential anxiety hanging in the air, the ditch we dug in the yard, and the assistance we gave our next-door neighbors,” Herzog says.

“The recent terror wave has caused us immense pain, but it does not weaken us. Today, too, we are ready and prepared for any scenario,” he says.

“We must say thanks to those who defend us day by day, hour by hour, in all the security forces and in the Israel Defense Forces,” Herzog adds.