As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Washington, the Shalit family and their supporters are continuing on their protest march for the release of captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
The participants reached Beit Dagan and passed by the Kfar Chabad Junction, where some residents of the Chassidic village came out to support them.
Joining Tuesday’s section of the march are about 100 hearing-impaired and deaf people from The Institute for the Advancement of Deaf Peoples in Israel.
“Our participation in this journey is not a political statement, but support in the face of the Shalit family’s pain,” said Yael Kakun, executive director of the institute.
During the slew of events held Monday in Tel Aviv, Roi Amitai, who was in the tank with Gilad Shalit when he was captured, spoke to Ynet in a rare conversation with the press.
Ever since that day, Amitai has refused to be interviewed.
“I don’t want it to fall on my shoulders,” he explained on Monday. However, during the march, he agreed to share his sentiments. “It hurts, and it doesn’t have a limit. I don’t work with a ‘pain barometer.’ As time goes on, it still hurts. It’s hard.”
“There were reporters who said to me, listen, if you don’t get up and do something right now, not only are you not contributing, it is damaging, destructive. Who are you to say this to me? I care, and it’s hard for me to see these things, that four years have passed and people are pushing it aside, not doing anything. But I don’t want to put all this on my shoulders,” he said.
Why don’t we make one for Reb Shalom Mordechai Halevi Rubashkin?
Its not just your feeling, its against halacha to release a prisoner for hostages… you are only allowed to release if it is for money… then you pay whatever they ask for, but when they start asking for terrorists it is AGAINST HALACHA
im sorry but you are pathetic as it gets. one jewish life is worth the entire world.
What happened after the Lebanon War (2) when I thought they released Arab prisoners for Shalit and then he wasn’t released. Why were they released?
u r all right
Isreal should pick them selves up and free gilad shalit with the force that hashem gave them and not make any deals with Arab and don’t support theses terroriost in prison (Meir kahana)Kick them. Out
imagine your his family but thousands is pushing it.
As Jews are instinct is to give up everything to bring him home but Israel is located in a tough neighborhood and we gotta be strong.
It’s unbearable to have a Yid suffer, but I’m sorry, freeing thousands of terrorists in exchange is just inviting more kidnappings and killings (ch”v).
Israel must either attempt a rescue, or destroy hamas until they relent (which would never happen b/c of fear of int’l pressure).