Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein hosted “Remembering through Song”, the event in Knesset co-hosted by Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, meeting with bereaved families. in the photos they are meeting with the parents of the late Max Steinberg, the individual soldier who fell last summer.

An estimated 30,000 people turned out for the lone soldier’s levaya, http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/249556/kerry-expresses-profound-gratitude-for-30000-people-attending-funeral-of-idf-lone-soldier-max-steinberg-hyd.html resulting in a significant Kiddush Hashem.

The family came to Israel from the US in particular to attend an event in the Knesset where a special film screening son and performed the song “Twenty thousand people” the singer Ariel Horowitz, written after the arrival of mass funerals lone soldiers who fell.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)