Netanyahu: ‘This year more than ever… we remember that we are all brothers’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that this year more than ever the people of Israel must remember that we are all brothers.

“This year, more than ever, on the Memorial Day for the brave of our nation, we will remember that we are brothers: Jews, Druze, Muslims, Bedouin, Christians and Circassians,” says Netanyahu at the official state Memorial Day ceremony at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. “Brothers in service, brothers in arms, brothers in blood.”

“This is the true spirit of our people — together we will stand as brothers,” Netanyahu adds, saying that Israel will recover “our brothers Oron, Hadar, Avera and Hisham” — the two fallen IDF soldiers and two civilians being held by Hamas in Gaza.

“Together we will stand as brothers – and guarantee our independence from generation to generation,” he adds. “Together we will stand as brothers, and we will bow our heads in endless tribute to the heroism of the fallen.”