Home at Last

Like many of my friends and family, I have finally retired the yellow ribbon and dog tags that were part of our lives for more than 800 days.

"The body on the stretcher was Ran Gvili—the last missing soldier, the final name in a chapter that an entire country had been desperate to close. He was draped in an Israeli flag, surrounded by men in uniform. Relief and grief arrived together, the way they always do in these moments. He was no longer missing. He was no longer a question that kept families awake at night. He was home.

"Yasar Darom was established under the office of the Chief Military Rabbinate, with a mission both sacred and strategic: to ensure that every fallen soldier receives a proper kevurah—buried with a name, with dignity, with a grave that a family can visit—and to deny the enemy any opportunity to use Israeli remains as bargaining chips or propaganda tools.

"Since Oct. 7, Yasar Darom has been everywhere. In the burned homes of the Gaza border communities, where entire families were erased in minutes. At the Nova site, sifting through the wreckage of a music festival that had become a killing field—where young people who had come to dance beneath the desert stars instead met monsters at dawn. In open fields and bomb shelters and safe rooms that had not been safe at all. Inside Gaza itself, in territory that wanted them dead for the act of reclaiming the dead.

They have recovered hundreds of bodies—soldiers and civilians alike—sometimes days later, sometimes weeks, sometimes piece by piece, often under fire. No one was abandoned; no one forgotten," writes Dobi Safier in "The Men Who Bring Them Home" in Tablet Magazine.

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