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Rivlin: We Have Been Fighting our War of Independence for 68 Years
(Jerusalem Post) Hannah Broad - President Reuven Rivlin spoke at a ceremony at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Tuesday night in honor of Israel's Memorial Day. Rivlin eulogized the fallen soldiers, saying: "Your time to love was cut short, so we will love in your place. You didn't have enough time to accomplish your dreams, so we will accomplish them in your name." "The IDF is not just our army, it is all of us as a whole. Secular and religious Jews. Arabs and Circassians, city-dwellers and kibbutznikim." "We are not a people of war. We did not go to battle thirsty for war. We are a nation that loves peace, loves life and hates war. You paid the heavy price necessary that this nation pays in order to defend the lives of its citizens and its independence." The memorial candle-lighting ceremony started at 8 p.m. after a siren sounded throughout the nation. A two-minute siren wailed nationwide at 11 a.m. Wednesday, marking the start of memorial ceremonies at the country's 52 military cemeteries.