Thousands at funeral of Yochai Kalangel

Thousands of people attend the funeral of Cpt. Yochai Kalangel, who was killed when Hezbollah fired anti-tank missiles at the vehicle he was in along the Lebanon border yesterday.

“Instead of you covering my grave with soil, it is me who covers yours,” says Yosef, Yochai’s father. “The way of the world is that a son buries his father, but now the ways of the world have changed… thank you, God, for these 25 years and seven months.”

Relatives and friends of Cpt. Yochai Kalangel mourning during his funeral at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl, in Jerusalem on January 29, 2015, (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Relatives and friends of Cpt. Yochai Kalangel mourning during his funeral at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl, in Jerusalem on January 29, 2015, (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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