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Military base              Every year Israel celebrates those who have fallen protecting the country since her independence in 1948 until today. On Yom Hazikron, Memorial Day, we remember the soldiers who died in the field, those who we’re in service but passed away from non-military causes, and those killed by terrorism. This year I spent the night of Yom Hazikaron at an air force base. Like so many families in Israel, my boyfriend’s family has lost someone in the line of duty and we went to his base to pay our respects. Every base where someone was killed takes responsibility to commemorate that person every year thereafter and has a Yom Hazikaron ceremony for those fallen heroes. At the air force base, every family of a soldier killed is assigned a current air force soldier to escort them. First stop was the memorial building where the names and ranks of every soldier who died from the base is displayed on the wall and there were pictures and b...

יזכור =  remember I arrived in Beersheba with 36 classmates in mid July and at this point have been living here for nearly 10 months. Yesterday I heard my first siren that was not a drill. Yesterday was Yom Hashoa, Holocaust remembrance day. According to Jewish law holidays begin at sunset and last until sunset the following day. I realized Yom Hashoa had began when I was studying in my apartment, listening to the radio, and it suddenly dawned on me that they were no longer playing happy, upbeat music. On Yom Hashoa every radio station plays slow, somber music, every TV channels broadcasts either documentaries or discussions relating to the Holocaust. As I was studying for my pathology final I felt too tired to make dinner and too busy to go out to eat so I decided to order pizza. When I went to the dominos website I found that they were closed for Yom Hashoa. “Dear customers, On the eve of Yom Hashoa Dominos will be closed...” On Yom Hashoa there are ceremonies throughout the coun...