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“Mothers of The Nation”

On Yom HaZikaron evening, a moving tekes (ceremony) was held in Binyanei Hauma on the topic of the “Mothers of the
Nation”. The tekes featured: Opening words from Rabbi Leo Dee, who lost his wife Lucy and daughters Maia and Rina
in a terror attack on Pesach • Miriam Peretz, who lost two sons in battle • Rabbanit Rachelle Fraenkel, who lost her son
Naftali who was kidnapped and murdered along with Gilad Shaer and Eyal Yifrach • Yossi Ron, who lost his mother and
father in the battle for Kfar Etzion on the eve of the founding of the State of Israel, and recited kaddish on their 75th
yahrzeits • Elaine Hoter, who lost her son Gavriel in a terror attack • Renana Meir, whose mother Dafna was murdered
in a terror attack • Devorah Kay, whose son Eli was murdered in a terror attack in the Old City • Chana Goodman,
who lost her son Yosef when he sacrificed himself to save his commander in an IDF parachute jump accident
The evening was accompanied by the music of Yonatan Razel and the Hoter family, and inspirational words from
World Mizrachi Executive Chairman Rabbi Doron Perez, Chairman of OneFamily Marc Belzberg,
and World Zionist Organization Chairman Yaakov Hagoel.

The event was organized by the Department for Religious Affairs in the Diaspora of the World Zionist Organization
headed by Roi Abecassis, representative of World Mizrachi in the national institutions, in partnership with OneFamily.