Knitted News29.11.21 20:24 25 in Kislev Tishpev
(Photo: Haim Tzach GPO)
Tonight (Monday), President Yitzhak Herzog participated in lighting a second Hanukkah candle in Kiryat Moriah in Jerusalem with soldiers from the Nativ course, in the presence of Prime Minister Bennett and his wife, Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi and his wife, and Yaakov Hagoel, chairman of the World Zionist Organization. The event was also attended by IDF Chief Education Officer Brigadier General Ophir Levius and Nativ Chairman Prof. Benjamin Ish Shalom.
(Photo: Amos Ben Gershom / GPO)
At the beginning of the event, a joint meeting was held with Nativ soldiers who told about the personal process they went through as part of the course.
“The powerful process I went through led me to choose to get married in Kfar Etzion”
Capt. Dr. Lucy Abigail Belgor Grinstein, a reserve doctor who converted as part of a path course: “I immigrated to Israel from Belarus and came to a goal-oriented path course. I think the significant thing Nativ has given me and my family is the knowledge that it’s okay to be and feel the way you feel, there is someone else like you who has had the same experience and the same difficulties. This feeling allows you to go through an honest and open process with yourself in removing the defenses. The powerful process I went through led me to choose to get married in Kfar Etzion, where I went through the seminars with the trainees of the Nativ course.
The rabbi who married me was my educating rabbi, Rabbi Yaron. The conversion process accompanies me every day as an IDF officer and also as a mother, and helps me formulate my identity and my home. “
(Photo: Amos Ben Gershom / GPO)
Herzog: “Have you faced challenges like Ruth the Moabite”
Addressing Nativ soldiers, the President said: “We attach great importance to the dear sons and daughters who have come to us from all over the world and are dealing with very complex issues of identity. Enlist in the IDF and do everything to be part of the Jewish people. And when we say part of the Jewish people I know how difficult it is because when Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Your people are my people and your God is my God,” she too has faced tremendous challenges and these challenges are endless. I’m not just talking about the most difficult halakhic and bureaucratic challenges. “
(Photo: Haim Tzach GPO)
Bennett: “This country will last forever”
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett: “Twice we have had a sovereign Jewish state in the Land of Israel. For the first time it lasted about 80 years until we screwed up and split into two kingdoms. For the second time, the Hasmonean kingdom was a sovereign state in the Land of Israel for 75 years. Then we lost our sovereignty. This is the third time. We will have no more chance, this is our country. We will hold on to it and strengthen it.
This country will last forever. It depends on us, on our inner strength, on our military strength, on a strong economy, on creativity, on a stable democracy, on statehood. It depends on our ability not to tear a tear from the inside. For this we need to strive, to argue but not to hate. We are in a time of very great light in the State of Israel. A good spirit is blowing in the land, a spirit of good will, of cooperation, of respecting different opinions. We will not give up. “
Stars: “A journey and struggle worthy of all appreciation”
Chief of Staff, Major General Aviv Kochavi: “The State of Israel is a miracle, but I want to talk about the wonders, that the IDF is one of them – in the IDF everyone is equal and the IDF gives unlimited opportunities to its people and you are an example. You have chosen to take your fate into your own hands. , To re-create your identity and shape it. Through the identity you create meaning for yourself and on its basis serve in the IDF out of a deep affinity for religion and the state. It is a journey and confrontation worthy of all appreciation. This is an opportunity to say a double thank you to each of you, both for your coping in the conversion process and for your military service. I salute you and hug you. ‘
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