Monday is Yom Hazikaron, the day Israel remembers its fallen soldiers and the victims of terrorist attacks.
* Tamar Paikes remembers her father, killed in the battle for Abu Tor, in Jerusalem, and her three siblings killed by war, accident and disease.
* When she visited the military cemetery at Mount Herzl, Miriam Peretz had to choose which of her fallen sons to mourn first, writes Tovah Lazaroff in The Jerusalem Post.
* Don’t underestimate the IDF, writes Eitan Haber in Ynet.
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