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Miriam Peretz & R' Avi Berman | Mother of two fallen IDF heroes SPEAKS OUT + Yom Hazikaron 2024

Meaningful People

Meaningful Minute

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Jewish, Jew, Meaningful, Self-improvement, People, Judaism

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🗓️ 11 May 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Miriam Peretz is an Israeli educator and public speaker.

After the deaths of two of her sons during their service in the Israel Defense Forces, Peretz became a lecturer on Zionism and living with loss. She was the recipient of the Israel Prize in 2018, for lifetime achievement.

In May 2021, Peretz announced that she would run for President of Israel in the 2021 election as an Independent candidate. She ended up losing the election to Isaac Herzog.

R' Avi Berman is the Executive Director of the OU in Israel and joins this episode with Miriam to share sentiments and thoughts relating to Yom Hazikaron and Yom Hatzmaut.

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0:19.4

All the Jewish people around the world in Dromasekahon, they stand, they remember, who pay his life for them two minutes to remember who give them the life. This is our children because they didn't fault only for us. They fought for all the Jewish people.

0:27.0

This year, more than any other year,

0:30.0

Yomazikaron and Yomat'sat Smut have nothing to do with Israel, what they have to do with the Jewish people.

0:37.0

The reality is that we have enemies that want to destroy us because we're Jews. That's it. and the only way we're Jews.

0:43.7

That's it.

0:45.1

And the only way we're going to win

0:48.3

is if we feel together.

1:06.3

So this is not the day only for my loss. This is the loss of I'm Israel. Hello everybody none other than Miriam Perrett's or by Avi Berman.

1:43.3

Miriam is somebody who I've been wanting to sit down with a very long time.

1:46.4

I heard her speak when I was a young kid.

1:48.4

She came to see her since she spoke about her story.

1:50.7

Miriam lost two children in the IDF, separate times and the heartbreak that she went

1:57.0

through is unfathomable, but the strength that she exhibits then and now is also unimaginable.

2:04.9

And we get to hear that in her voice.

2:06.5

She was joined by Abbe Avi Berman,

2:08.6

who is the executive director of the OU in Israel,

2:12.0

and he was able to add a lot of insight into what Yomizi

2:16.6

Karone is about this year which is Sunday night and Monday this

2:20.3

Sunday night and Monday. If you're listening to this and what's a Shabbas it's

2:22.4

you know the coming Sunday night and Monday. If you're listening to this and what Shabbas, it's the coming Sunday and

2:27.0

it's a different feeling this year in Israel, Yumizikarone, you know, usually they're mourning the soldiers obviously that are lost over the years, but usually it's going back to the own-kipar war where there was a very big loss of life

2:37.9

But unfortunately know this year after October 7th. We lost a lot of our soldiers, we lost a lot of people in Israel.

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