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Herzog at Yom Kippur War anniversary ceremony: ‘Lessons have not been learned’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSam Sokol is a former political correspondent at The Times of Israel. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
At a ceremony marking the anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, President Isaac Herzog says that while more than 50 years have passed since the 1973 conflict, it appears that the lessons from that war, which were “burned into our flesh” have “not been learned.”
“Again we made a mistake in conception” and “once again we did not listen to the junior field ranks, to those who performed their work with dedication and warned us,” he declares.
This failure “once again cost us a painful and heavy blood price” and it is incumbent on us “to investigate deeply and widely, in a reliable, uncompromising and independent manner, to draw lessons and draw conclusions,” he continues — calling it a “moral” duty to work bring home the hostages “with the same determination with which we worked for the return of our captives in the Yom Kippur War.”
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