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May 11, 2016
Moshe Dayan’s Eulogy for a Fallen Kibbutznik
Israel’s Gettysburg address.
In 1956, an Israeli named Roi Rotberg was killed by Arab marauders while patrolling a kibbutz located on the Gaza border. Moshe Dayan, who happened to be visiting the kibbutz at the time, composed a brief eulogy for Rotberg that, in the words of Marc Livecche, “jolts us from our somnambulism and puts us instead on a footing for war.” Herewith, marking Israel’s Memorial Day, is the speech’s central paragraph: