“Let’s do one more time around. Who knows when we’ll ever have the opportunity to celebrate Shavuos in Gaza again?”
Over the phone, I heard the ding of the doors closing on the light rail in Yerushalayim. “Where are you going?” I asked my son Meir.
“Har Herzl.”
My heart skipped a beat.
It was Sunday, 10 Sivan/June 16, and the previous day, on Shabbos, 11 IDF kedoshim had fallen in battle.
And Har Herzl is the site of Israel’s National Military Cemetery.
“Whose levayah are you going to?” I asked.
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