Flags flew at half mast Tuesday as the annual memorial services were held on Mt. Herzl for Israeli soldiers missing in action and presumed dead. Defense Minister Shimon Peres delivered the eulogy. “In pride, not merely in sorrow, we salute these tombless headstones,” he said.
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