This Monday evening, at 8 PM, a siren will sound over the State of Israel.
And the entire country will stop.
Not symbolically. Drivers will pull over on highways. Soldiers will stand at attention on base. Children will freeze on playgrounds. For one full minute, every Israeli alive pauses to stand in silence for those who gave their lives so that Israel could exist.
This is Yom HaZikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day. It is Israel’s national day of remembrance for fallen soldiers and victims of terror. There are no sales. No long weekends. No discount codes. Just a nation that understands, with devastating clarity, what it cost to get here.
This Sunday, April 19, the evening before Yom HaZikaron begins, Israel365 is hosting a live prayer and remembrance event for believers who love Israel, called Remember and Honor. It starts at 2:00 PM Eastern Time, and it opens the same way Israel will the following evening: with a minute of silence.
I want to tell you why you should be there.
One week ago, Israel observed Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. Six million Jews murdered. Not in ancient times. Within living memory. Men and women who had no army to protect them, no sovereign land to flee to, no government that considered their lives worth defending.
The Holocaust is what happens to the Jewish people without power.
Yom HaZikaron, which follows one week later, is the answer to that. It does not celebrate war. It commemorates the reality of a Jewish army that fights, that bleeds, that sometimes falls, but that stands between the Jewish people and a world that sought to erase them. The Jewish calendar places these two moments back-to-back deliberately. One is the cost of helplessness. The other is the cost of strength.
The book of Deuteronomy does not simply promise peace. It commands an entire nation to remember. “Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen.” (Deuteronomy 4:9) Remembrance is not sentimentality. It is a covenant obligation.
This Sunday, you will hear from people who are living that covenant.
Avi Rosenfeld will speak about his son, Natan.
Sgt. Yisrael Natan Rosenfeld was 20 years old. He served in the 601st Battalion of the Combat Engineering Corps. On June 29, 2025, during an operation to clear ground in Jabaliya, northern Gaza, a hidden explosive claimed his life.
Natan was born in the United Kingdom and raised in Israel after his family made aliyah eleven years ago. He was the kind of young man who made every room brighter. His friends said he was the glue holding them together. His commander, Lt. Col. Avshalom Dadon, called him “a fighter, a leader, and a light we so badly needed.”
His grandparents survived Auschwitz.
Let that sit for a moment. The grandchildren of Auschwitz survivors are now serving in the Israel Defense Forces. What the Nazis tried to erase, the State of Israel rose up as soldiers. Natan knew this. He carried his family’s history not as a burden but as a calling. His younger brother is now 18 years old and plans to follow him into an elite unit.
Yehoshua Fleischer, who has served hundreds of days in reserve duty, will also speak. His business has paid a price for it. He goes anyway, willingly. Elisha Gimpel has served as an active soldier and will share what that looks like from the inside.
The prophet Isaiah foretold a day when God would raise a signal to the nations and gather His people back to their land. (Isaiah 49:22) Most believers who read that passage believe it has been happening in our lifetime. The return to the land, the establishment of the state, and the survival against impossible odds are not history. They are prophecies being fulfilled in real time.
This Sunday’s event will also receive a special offering for IDF widows.
Join us April 19 at 2:00 PM Eastern (1:00 PM Central, 9:00 PM Israel time). Hear from a father who has paid a price no parent should ever have to pay, and who would still tell you his son died doing exactly what he believed he was born to do. Here, from soldiers who would do it all over again if they needed to.
Natan Rosenfeld and Israel’s heroes deserve at least one minute of your undivided attention.
Register now for the webinar by clicking here.
