Israel honored military personnel who died serving the country. “The lives of the fallen have been stopped in the middle, but they fell so that the life of the State of Israel shall not be cut short,” Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said at a Tel Aviv memorial service before sirens sounded across the nation Tuesday night to mark the beginning of Remembrance Day.
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