Minister Bennett at the Olami Summit 2017 Speech 2

brothers and sisters anyway with him I [Applause] want to tell you a story about two great Jewish heroes of of our generation in July of 1976 an airplane belonging to Air France from Israel to Europe through Greece was hijacked by terrorists on board were about a hundred Israelis and Jews I believe one of the hostages is actually in this room over there where okay we're okay could you stand up for a moment how old were you it was ten years old after some travails the airplane was diverted to the city of Entebbe in Uganda in the heart of Africa and the terrorists told the State of Israel you have to release murderers and terrorists otherwise we're gonna kill these passengers also they divided the passengers into Jews and non-jews they released the non-jews this is 1976 31 years after the Holocaust after the Shah they divided between Jews and non-jews and released the non-jews what can you do in Israel quietly a unit the unit of the Israeli IDF a unit called Sayer at McHale quickly began planning a rescue operation on 4th of July 1976 hours before the ultimatum ran out a bunch of Hercules planes took off from Israel with the soldiers inside the airplanes no one else was going to help us no country in the world volunteered to help even though it was an Air France plane wasn't a lot it was up to us quietly in the middle of the night they pretended to be Ugandan air airplanes they landed out came a fancy Mercedes that pretended to be the Mercedes belonging to the leader of Uganda and within minutes the soldiers approached the room where the hostages were located they came in by surprise shut down kill the terrorists released the hostages got them on the airplane and within about 90 minutes the airplanes were aren't there way back to the State of Israel unfortunately a few hostages got hurt one soldier was heavily wounded and only one soldier fell the commander of the core of the operation and his name is yoni yoni Netanyahu that's Prime Minister Netanyahu older brother yoni fell to restore the dignity of the Jews of the Jewish people thirty years later almost to the date Second Lebanon War I was fighting in that war in one of the tough battles of the war a commander in Golani Brigade whose name is Loic line was facing a very difficult situation in a small room there were a bunch of soldiers fighting Hezbollah and suddenly a hand grenade was thrown into this small location and if nothing was done the whole group of soldiers would be hit badly and probably killed in a split-second decision Hawaii climb jumped on the grenade saying what Jews said for thousands of years saying Sh'ma Israel Hashem L okay no hashem echad these are the words we said 3,300 years ago in Sinai these are the words Jews said before entering elytis land with Joshua these are the words that King David said 3,000 years ago these are the words that every one of our grandparents and great-great-great grandparents in Yemen in Morocco in France in America in Germany in Poland and Lithuania in Baghdad in Persia in Ethiopia in Argentina Brazil Uruguay these are the words that for 2,000 years every day we said mysel hashem elokenu hashem echad this is what kept us alive these are also the words that were discovered in the gas chamber in Auschwitz on the wall of the gas chamber written with a thumbnail smile and these are the words that will keep the Jewish people as the people of eternity Sh'ma Israel 30 years ago after operation Entebbe operation Yonatan they wrote a song a special song about the operation and yoni Netanyahu and in 2006 they added one verse to that song dedicated to Klein [Music] front I'll try to translate it online [Music] this is about the rescue operation at midnight they got up and they hit because at the end of earth as children of a bird they flew far to restore the dignity of humankind the land of Israel they returned to the sweetness of its fields the Carmel Mountain and the nebula two people will never again stand silent will never let go of it sons to the land of Israel when it's mountains there's a city that goes from one generation to another the city of Jerusalem to a land to whom its children are connected in good times and bad at midnight a windstorm hovers our fields at all Bush Neil's there's a one what that night is not returned to yoni Netanyahu the Land of Israel we return to the sweetness of its fields to Mount Carmel and the desert to the people the Jewish people who will never be silent again will never desert one of our children the Land of Israel whose tears our shed on a field of sunflowers whose sadness and Happiness are always intertwined how's the new verse the name of the week line [Music] when it dawned from darkness he rescued hurt soldiers from fire remove when a hand grenade was thrown she used his body to save his friends so the Land of Israel his tears were withheld amid the kiddush Hashem boy fly and when he said SHhhh my flyer the silent wind took his name [Music] ye may God protect you for eternity and your special dear ways and deeds on your courage on the land of Israel that your soul for eternity will be connected to [Music] let's me [Music] my brothers and sisters we've been gifted many years people thought we were the cursed nation we've been gifted to be sons and daughters of this blessed nation but it's up to every one of us to realize the greatness of the nation by stayin Jewish by connecting the elytis soil by always standing up if you're on campus and someone says anything bad about Israel you don't stay silent you stand up and you fight ba-da-ba are misael hi [Applause]