Prime Minister Naftali Bennett spoke today at the state ceremony on Mount Herzl in memory of IDF casualties. Moreno’s widow was less attached to the political use of her husband’s memory.
Maya Moreno: This is something I think should not be done
Maya Ohana-Moreno on the Prime Minister’s Remembrance Ceremony at Mount Herzl: “I refrain from connecting Emanuel as a compass of one political reality or another. I think it is a mistake to do so, probably on this day” .co / h3P65wF7Yi@kereneubach #Agenda pic.twitter.com/M33DT5414z
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Maya Moreno participated this morning in a special broadcast of here Network B said after the speech: “When a prime minister talks about my private space, it is not easy for me.” Maya added: “I refrain from connecting Emanuel as a compass of one political reality or another. That it must not be done. “
It will be recalled that at the beginning of his speech, Bennett said: “I will deviate a little from the text I planned. Every year I arrive about an hour before the ceremony to meet families. “Her father, Neria, Noam-Israel, father Eliran, the new-old father already, the little sisters. I can not help but think what Emanuel would have thought when he saw her father an officer in a unit in the Israel Defense Forces, so big and beautiful.”
I will only tell you, the children, that Emanuel and I not only served together but also got married a few weeks apart, but Maya and Emanuel brought their children years before me. At the time, he told me about the kids and there is such a thing that whoever does not have kids, he does not understand why it is interesting. So her father, he did not stop “digging” on you “listen, I know everyone says but her father is different, she is really the smartest, she is really the most talented”. He would not let go.
The last phone call with Emanuel was on Thursday afternoon, more or less a day or two after the end of the Second Lebanon War, and as usual we murmured. I said, “What happened to us?” And Emmanuel said in that conversation, “The people of Israel had to be shocked to rise again,” and I have no doubt that Emmanuel was very, very proud of you, her father, of you – you are so big, taller than him, it’s probably Mom’s genes, and I miss Dad too. Yours very much. “