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Israel's Enduring Spirit after October 7
(Ynet News) Hanoch Daum - I recently met soldiers from the Paratroopers Reconnaissance Unit during an educational program. At one point, I asked how many of them had lost a friend in the war. Every hand went up. I asked who had lost more than one friend. Still, all hands remained in the air, including those of the commanders. Only when I reached five or more did some begin to lower their hands. A generation is growing up here that has buried the best of its friends - a generation that has fought in Gaza, Syria and Lebanon in a war that has been very long. When you ask this generation what the war has done to them, they give a striking answer in its intensity: we have become more committed. The friends we lost made us want even more to win, to understand even more how important it is to fight for this country, to make it better, safer, more vibrant and more prosperous. Something terrible happened to us in the Oct. 7 massacre, but we will turn pain into strength, while our enemies will face destruction. We have a unique Jewish strength that cannot be denied: we know how to rise from the dust. Happy Independence Day.