During his address the President said, “Especially now, we must learn the lessons and truly understand that the internal threat within Israel is the most acute and dangerous threat of all. Only yesterday, in the midst of the holiest day, exactly fifty years after the outbreak of war, we saw in the first Hebrew city of all places. a shocking and painful example of how the internal struggle within us can escalate and become extreme.”
He continued, “I know that I speak for the absolute majority of Israeli citizens when I express deep sorrow and shock at the sight of our own people fighting one another on a day that has always been a symbol of unity, and the of beauty, inclusivity and respectful nature of Israel and Judaism. I am horrified by the very sight, by the very thought, of people who either have family or they themselves fought side by side - brothers in arms, shoulder to shoulder in outposts, in tanks, in the bloody fields of the Sinai and the Golan, and now they are struggling in the heart of Tel Aviv, during the holy moments of the Yom Kippur prayers.” READ MORE
