Liberman honors reservist soldiers

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman hands out awards to outstanding reservist units at a ceremony in the President’s Residence in Jerusalem.

“I think you’ll agree with me if I say that the State of Israel is not always generous enough in saying thanks and in appreciation,” Liberman says to President Reuven Rivlin at the ceremony.

“Tonight, I am glad to say that we’re breaking from that tradition. This is a time of warm handshakes and great, honest thanks from the bottom of our hearts,” he says.

“Reservist units have taken part in important missions, both covert and public, and have given a great boost to the deterrent power of the State of Israel, while around us regimes are crashing and hundreds of civilians are being killed each day as a result of civil wars and terror attacks by radical Islam,” Liberman says.

— Judah Ari Gross