The siren caught me at the intersection of a huge park where thousands of people will celebrate the 67th Independence Day of the State of Israel tomorrow.
I got out of the car and stood, as all the drivers did. Standing and bowing their heads, standing and being silent.
I suddenly understood what was special about this minute, the minute of the siren.
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Silence!
Millions of Israelis are silent, millions of Israelis are uniting and uniting.
Israelis who throughout the year shout and brawl in chocolate videos and videos condemning chocolate, Israelis who experience the gaps against Israelis who create them, all suddenly fall silent.
Right and left, Ashkenazi and Mizrahi, religious and secular, are silent.
How beautiful this people is, I thought to myself. How beautiful it is when it is silent, how beautiful it is when it unites.
The siren pierces the hearts, this siren brings back memories. Memories of the time of war, memories of the days of Protective Edge. Hard memories of days of tension and concern for the safety of our brothers, our neighbors, our relatives who were on the battlefield and gave their lives for us.
Pictures of the fallen float and rise: Benya Sarel, Hadar Goldin and the other heroes of the war.
What did they fight for? I ask myself. For what country? A country of chocolate videos? A country of gaps? For whom did they give their souls, for whom were they buried? For a people full of emotions and hatred or for a people of respect and love?
What do they think of us from above? Would they have fought for us? Would they have died for us? What would they expect from us?
It seems they would expect us to be silent. Yes, to be more silent and shout less, to unite more and fight less, to define ourselves through love and not through hate.
Let us take this unifying moment of silence with us for the entire year.
After all, they fought so that we could have a good life here, they were killed so that we could smile.
True, we unite with their memory, we light a candle and study for the upliftment of their souls, but we must not give up on their will: to be one people, to be a united people.
For in their death, they commanded us life. May their memory be blessed!
