____________________________________________ 5 IICC Perspectives The sergeant sent to us from the IDF rabbinate was an amazing person, without equal. I cannot forget him to this day. He knew how to approach and talk to us, how to encourage us. An IDF officer named Tali also helped us a lot with all of the procedures. On one occasion, when we went to speak with a senior IDF military intelligence officer in Tel Aviv for more information, we were invited to a meeting with the IDF Chief Rabbi. He wanted to prepare us for the possibility that all the casualties from the incident in which Israel was apparently killed would be buried in a mass grave. Of course, we told him, “That is out of the question. Let there be even a finger, but a finger of our son, and we will give him a Jewish burial. No mass grave." In the end, with the help of the X-rays, Israel's body was identified. We set a date and time and held a military funeral at the military cemetery in Haifa. At the time, the body of our son’s best friend, Moshe Adino Sharabi, who was killed alongside him, had not yet been definitively identified. Before the war broke out Moshe Adino and Israel were roommates in an apartment in Kiryat Ono and they went to the war together. His whole family came to Israel’s funeral from their home in Rosh-HaAyiin, and Moshe Adino's father and nine brothers all stood around the grave. When I was asked to say Kaddish, I turned to Moshe Adino's father and said, "Come and say Kaddish on Israel’s grave. If they bury your son, I will say Kaddish on his grave too". Captain Moshe Adino-Sharabi (Malam Archive) He said Kaddish, then we read from the Psalms, and I then said a second Kaddish.
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