Baumel’s return shows Israel’s commitment to its fallen - comment
What the Israelites carried on their shoulders for 40 years from the Red Sea’s waters through the Sinai Desert’s heat was more than one man’s remains; it was the value of honoring the dead.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-defense minister Yitzhak Mordechai listen to Yona Baumel (gesturing) as Baumel's wife, Miriam, (right) looks on, in 1997(photo credit: BRIAN HENDLER)ByAMOTZ ASA-EL