A video about the Machal, the pilots who comprised the Israeli airforce in 1948. A miraculous story, at the link a trailer for a film I intend to see.

My Uncle Harold was there, not as a flyer but as part of the ground crew, as he had been during the war in Europe along with my Uncle Percy. Bless them both.

The film is Above and Beyond. And as one of those interviewed said, a thousand years from now, as Jews look back on their history from what will then be 6774, the two moments they will remember of our present era are the Holocaust and the creation of the state of Israel. What else they will be compelled to remember of events during this coming one thousand years fills me with enormous fears.