This Ongoing War: A Blog: 14-Apr-13: In tonight's official commemoration of Memorial Day, a focus on the life of one girl and what is being done in her name

Sunday, April 14, 2013

14-Apr-13: In tonight's official commemoration of Memorial Day, a focus on the life of one girl and what is being done in her name

The executive team at the Malki Foundation, an organization with whose founding we were involved, sent the message below out to its supporters this afternoon. We felt some of our blog readers might want to know about it.

Keren Malki to be featured this evening as part of the official Yom Hazikaron (Remembrance Day) ceremonies

An evening of song in memory of Israel's Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terror will be broadcast live from the Knesset on Israel television's Channel 1. The event is produced jointly by the Knesset, the Department of Families and Memorial at the Ministry of Defense, and the Department of Terror Victims at the National Insurance Institute (Bituach Leumi), entities operating throughout the year for the deceased and their families.

An annual event, the theme of this year's ceremony is "In their death, they bequeathed us", focusing on unique individuals and the organizations set up in their memory. Keren Malki, and the special life of Malki z"l, are amongst a select few to be featured this evening.

The ceremony will take place in the presence of Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein, Minister of Defense Lt. Gen. (ret.) Moshe Ya'alon, Minister of Welfare and Social Services Meir Cohen, Deputy Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Gadi Eisencott, Police Commissioner Lt. General Yohanan Danino, and other representatives.

The ceremony is scheduled to start at 8:40 pm, straight after the traditional lighting of the memorial candle at the Kotel (Western Wall). Keren Malki's segment will be at approximately 9:15pm. Watch either on television or on the internet here.

As a lead up to Yom Hazikaron, an article about Keren Malki was published in this weekend's Hebrew language newspaper "Makor Rishon". Read the article (in Hebrew) here.

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THIS ONGOING WAR is not part of the activity of the Malki Foundation which was founded by us, Frimet and Arnold Roth of Jerusalem, on September 11, 2001. But it is inspired by the same tragic circumstances. The Malki Foundation (also known by its Hebrew name: Keren Malki) is a memorial to the life of our daughter, Malki who was murdered at the age of 15 in a massacre in the centre of Jerusalem carried out by Hamas.

Beyond its function as a remembrance of a beautiful life, the foundation provides tangible, concrete, invaluable support daily to several thousand Israeli families from every part of the religious and socio-economic spectrum: Christian, Moslem, Jewish, Druze and others who care at home for a seriously disabled child.

Reach us at thisongoingwar@gmail.com

Good for the soul | The Malki Foundation

If you care to make a positive and constructive contribution to the care of Israeli children with special needs - whether they're Christian, Moslem, Jewish, Druze or unconnected to any particular faith community - you can't do better than direct your donation to the work of the Malki Foundation.

It's the charitable organization we, the bloggers who produce This Ongoing War, established in 2001 in memory of our murdered daughter. Her name is Malki.

Keren Malki (in Hebrew, Keren means 'foundation' or 'fund') is efficient, effective, non-sectarian, non-political and unique in the good work it does. Thousands of families from every part of our richly diverse society here in Israel have benefited in concrete and meaningful ways. Donations to Keren Malki are tax-effective in Israel, Canada, UK and the United States.

There's also plenty of background at www.malkifoundation.org as well as on the Malki Foundation Blog.

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