An architecturally brilliant and inspiring sight that seems to bask in an almost magnetic aura, the memorial is an all-encompassing national embrace of Israel’s most painfully open wound — the loss of more than 24,000 servicemen and women who have fallen in the line of duty since before the State of Israel was founded in 1948 to present times.

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