Two years after he fell in battle in Gaza, Binyamin Airley’s quiet legacy lives on
“When the ceasefire was declared during Succos, I fell apart,” says Jen Airley, who lost her 21-year-old son Binyamin Hy”d in Gaza in November 2023. “Not because the soldiers were now coming home, my son not among them. I’d dealt with that already.
“It was because I knew that now, as a nation, we’d no longer be living in adrenaline mode, and the healing process would begin. That would mean the problems the war has caused would surface, and we’d start to really feel the trauma of the last two years.”
Jen shifts on the comfy beige couch she’s sitting on in her living room in her home in Ramat Beit Shemesh, a room that’s bright and airy even though it’s cloudy and gray outside.
“I meet a lot of people,” she says. “And so many have told me about the impact the war has had on their family. Now that the husband and father is back from miluim, the family unit is showing major cracks.
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