ONE FAMILY
Although we parents and grandparents are proud of our youth, we can never forget that these youngsters of 18, 19, 20, have to put their life on the line so that the Jewish people can have an independent state of its own. This commitment – passed on from parents to son and daughter – is the existential equivalent of an unspoken answer to the question: “is there something you would give your life for?” It is true that the procedures developed within the hospitals, community, etc., in order to deal with the many terror attacks, have become “routine procedures”…that is the only normalcy about them. But every attack creates grief and mourning, not only for the victims’ families, but for the whole nation. When, all too often, Israel mourns another victim of Arab terrorism, everyone has long faces, softened voices, pained expressions. To live in Israel today is to be connected by radio and TV, phone and word of mouth. It is to take part in the tragedy of yet another lost life. We ...