‘The land of Israel is acquired through suffering’

24 August 2014, 10:49 am

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“We are with you in deep mourning,” Alon Shuster, head of the Sha’ar Hanegev Regional council, says at the funeral of 4-year old Daniel Tragerman. “The land of Israel is acquired through suffering,” he added, quoting the Talmud, and added that “we are here, all of us, knowing and understanding the difficulty… we know we failed in protecting little Daniel.”

Shuster called on the government “to prevent more killings… Here, in this painful place, we are waiting for another day, a day where children can play in their yard and bomb shelters can be just another room. So many children made it to the bomb shelter and Daniel didn’t make it; we will do all that we can so that life will go on.”