A memorial service with letters, poems, reflections, and facts from soldiers and their families- a complete, ready-made memorial service

The chanichim should leave the sicha understanding

(1)   The power of Yom Ha’atzmaut – how all these different Jews came together to fight as an Am and why it was it was so important for the Jews in 1948 to have an independent Jewish State.

(2)   The battle for Yom Ha’atzmaut applies to us today and we can only truly appreciate it when looking at it as part of a cycle of the hardships of Jewish History (Yom Hashoah and Yom HaZicaron).

The chanichim will appreciate the importance of speaking to Holocaust survivors and learning their stories in order to continue the memory of the Holocaust.

Being that Sunday is the 10 B'Tevet, we would like the chanachim to be confronted with the question: why is remembering important?

To understand how we still can celebrate Yom HaAtzmaut despite the time of terror and bloodshed