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Israeli tanks shell three “military posts” following the first rocket attack from the Hamas-controlled enclave in more than 40 days.
An uptick in Israeli attacks in Syria has been reported in recent weeks.
Maj. N of the elite Shayetet 13 Unit talks about deliveries of oxygen cylinders to senior homes and special-needs centers, as the Education and Youth Corps has been overseeing dozens of child-care centers to free up medical personnel.
According to Syrian opposition sources, several posts near Quneitra were targeted in the attack, which caused damage but no casualties.
The new recruits come from America, Canada, Russia, France, Australia, Latin America, Ukraine, England, South Africa, Thailand, Germany, Italy, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, India, Georgia, Sweden, Holland, Moldova, Uzbekistan, Holland, Bulgaria and Kazakhstan.
IDF chief cantor tweaks the program, but gets to share prayers and his voice—a “gift,” he says, which can be used significantly as everyone is homebound to stop the spread of COVID-19.
“At first, we thought that it was incumbent on us to revive their memory, but we discovered that even more so, it is they, through our remembrance of them, who revive us,” said Rabbi Eliyahu Meirav.
“We will all be memorial candles to the lives they lived and to the lives they will never live. Our souls are bound up with yours,” stated Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin.
Syrian state media claimed that three civilians were killed by the strikes; the opposition war-monitoring group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said four Iran-backed fighters were also killed.
For the first time in Israel’s history, ceremonies and honor guards on Yom Hazikaron will be held at military cemeteries without visitors due to coronavirus restrictions on gatherings.
Avi Dadon, who leads the Defense Ministry’s Directorate of Production and Procurement, tells JNS about weeks of round-the-clock efforts that transformed the Israeli health-care system’s readiness for the impending outbreak.
