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How Israel Remembers Its Fallen
(Jerusalem Post) Etgar Lefkovits - Israelis marked the 20,196 servicemen and women who have fallen in defense of the state since November 1947. At the official state ceremony marking the start of Remembrance Day Sunday night at the Western Wall, President Moshe Katsav noted that Israel's War of Independence had not ended, even as Israel marks 56 years of independence.