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Source: https://www.gov.il/en/pages/event-meetmemoryday200426
Memorial Day for the Fallen of Israel's Wars
(Prime Minister's Office) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu - Prime Minister Netanyahu said Monday evening: Time passes, but it does not dull the memory of that moment of tidings, the most bitter of all, the news that our beloved souls are no longer among the living. That is how we felt when my brother Yoni, of blessed memory, fell 50 years ago during the mission to liberate our hostages in Entebbe. On Memorial Day the nation remembers, the nation salutes, and the nation expresses deep gratitude to the sons and daughters thanks to whom our existence is secured. Iran planned to destroy us with atomic bombs. Had we not acted, the names Natanz, Fordow, and Isfahan would have joined the names of the death camps: Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Treblinka. But we acted, and we crushed the murderous plot. Contrary to the recent past, today we have a home, and we must guard it with all our might. The 25,648 fallen of Israel's wars are the foundation of our independence. Alongside them, we remember the thousands of victims of terrorism, the fallen of the civilian home front. In the last 2 1/2 years, we have been engaged in a multi-front war unlike any since the War of Independence. We have not yet finished the work, but the world already recognizes our determination to defend ourselves and to defend humanity from barbaric fanaticism. Small Israel and our great friend, the United States, carry the weight of the entire Western civilization on their backs.