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Sunday, April 30, 2017
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Sunday, April 30, 2017
PM says Jewish self-determination owed to sacrifice of fallen soliders
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells bereaved families that the sacrifice of fallen Israeli servicemen and women enables the Jewish people to live freely in their own land.
Speaking at opening Memorial Day ceremony at the Yad Labanim building in Jerusalem, Netanyahu also hails Israel as a “historic wonder.”
“We are one people, and its is clear that if it weren’t for the sacrifices of our sons and daughters, we would not be a free people in our own land,” the prime minister says. “The State of Israel is a historic wonder.”
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