Benzi,

 

Thank you for your kind words. Memorial Day holds great significance for us not only because the enormous sacrifices of all the men & women who went before us over the years, but hits home personally for many of us who lost friends & colleagues in America’s recent wars. It’s a somber pride and a somber day.

 

Thank you again.

 

Marty DeStazio, Col, USAF

U.S. Air Attaché to the State of Israel

Office: +972-(0)3-519-7354

Cell: +972-(0)50-780-3927

 

 

 

Dear friends and colleagues,

 

I would like to take a moment, before you all leave for a long weekend, to express our deepest and sincere sympathy on this memorial day.

2020 will forever be remembered as a year that reminded how fragile the world is, and how globalism made us closer – though we live thousands of miles apart and participating in social distancing.

 

Every life lost is a whole and entire world - This is a fundamental and core value in Judaism. When soldiers pay the price, it is sometimes forgotten that there is a world behind them that was shattered, dreams that will never come true and so much more life to live – they are merely a number, a statistic  in the long battle and war against the evil forces in this world. So,  on this memorial day, please remember that your brothers and sisters in the IDF and Israel, are praying with you, crying with you, and remembering your loved ones, friends and comrades who gave the ultimate sacrifice in name of freedom, liberty and democracy.

 

God bless.

 

Shahar, Benzi, Omer, Chana and Ilana.

v/r

MAJ Benzi Zimmerman 
​Head, International Cooperation Desk

IDF Operations Directorate - Plans, Doctrine & Exercises (J3-5/7)

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