A hachnasas sefer torah will be held the IDF’s 71st Armored Division base on Wednesday night, Gilad Shalit‘s unit. The sefer torah, donated by the family of Michael Mirilashvilli, is in honor of captive IDF soldier Gilad Shalit, who last month began his fourth year in Hamas captivity.
While no one has been permitted to see Shalit since he was taken hostage by Hamas in a June 2006 cross-border attack in Kerem Shalom in southern Israel, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak during a meeting in Cairo on Tuesday with President Shimon Peres announced to the media that he believes that Shalit is alive and well and his ordeal will come to an end in the near future.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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Lets hope it’s true. It would be a good idea to take upon up to do something good in his honor to speed up his release. Hashen will never forsake us. We should only hear Besoros Tovos.
Please don’t stop saying Tehillim for Gilad ben Aviva and the other missing Israeli soldiers
Staff Sgt. Zecharya Shlomo Ben Sarah Baumel,
Staff Sgt. Zvi Ben Penina Feldman
Sgt. Yekutiel YehudaNachman Sarah Ben Katz, these 3 are missing since 11 June 1982, in a battle at Sultan Yakoub, in Lebanon.
Major Ron Ben Batya Arad, who was captured on 16 October 1986, after his aircraft was shot down near Sidon, Lebanon. Arad was initially held by Amal (a Shi’ite terrorist organization); however his subsequent fate is still unknown.
Guy Ben Rina Hever, last seen at his army base on the southern Golan Heights on August 17, 1997.
Majdy Halabi, last seen at a hitchhiking stop in Dalyat El Karmel on May 24, 2005.
Cpl. Gilad Ben Aviva Shalit was abducted by terrorists on 25 June 2006 in the course of an infiltration and attack by terrorists in the area of Kibbutz Kerem Shalom.
Good advice, thank you ErnieKugel