The funeral of 18-year old Yehuda Sherman, who was killed yesterday in an incident in the West Bank, has begun, with some 500 people in attendance.
“God, we send you a hero. Yehuda, plead with God for redemption now,” says his father Yehoshua in tears. “Tell God that a generation of redemption is growing here. We will continue to fight for the entire Land of Israel.”
“Yehuda was a communal sacrifice,” he says, using a term for a sacrifice that was offered on behalf of the nation at the Holy Temple in Jerusalem in ancient times.
“I call on the government from here to wipe out the disgrace of the Oslo Accords,” he adds, referring to the 1990s-era Israeli-Palestinian agreement that created the Palestinian Authority and gave it a measure of control over parts of the West Bank.
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