Haim Yelin's house after the 7.10/courtesy of Haim Yelin
About 500 members of the Kibbutz Bari community will celebrate the Passover Seder this year in Hatofim Square, with 11 members of the community still in captivity in Gaza. The resident of the kibbutz, former member of the Knesset Haim Yelin, shared his feelings about the holiday in a conversation with Anat Davidov and Udi Segal on radio 103FM.
"Part of the Bari community, the majority, something like 500 people, women and children, will be held in the abductees' square - an order as usual as we know how to do in Bari," he noted and admitted: "I felt that I could not be with the family this year, I felt that I had to support the families of the abductees, and I I will do it with the whole community in the square with all the families."
Yelin continued and said: "I love this holiday, on this holiday Moshe, one leader, brought us out of slavery to freedom - he traveled with us for 40 years in the desert to unite the people. These are two things I wish for the people of Israel, that all the abductees return to their families, that they be freed from slavery under to the tunnels, and the second thing will be leadership that will lead us to a much better place than we are today, a message of hope."
"The stage of freeing the abductees themselves and supporting the families of the abductees who suffer every day is only the first stage. The second stage is for all the murdered to return to the burial, to the cemeteries of Bari, Kfar Gaza, their land where they grew up. Then really maybe we can end a sad chapter in our lives. But Until these two things happen, there is no possibility of rising from this place," he emphasized. "My biggest fear is that we are moving away from this place that we are inside our country, inside our house, we were kidnapped, we were murdered. This voice you hear is thanks to a few who came to save us. Otherwise I see no reason why I am alive."
He also said emphatically that "we must very quickly return to this place, the place of Shiva in October. Understand that in front of us, in front of the house, there are brutal murderers who must simply be defeated, there is no other way, otherwise we leave a legacy here for future generations - a legacy of genocide."
Regarding the boycott of the beacon ceremony by them, he said: "It's not to be a part of something we don't believe in, the word boycott is a hard word, it's not the right word. We don't participate in the ceremony because actually this ceremony was imposed on us not with the right sensitivity from our point of view, nor with the mention of the Seventh of October - They just want to mention what happened after, and it's not right to do that."
"You come out of pain to resurrection, this pain, if you don't want to voice it and if you don't want to hear it - we can't be part of it. We are there, we are in mourning, unable to rise. All the smiles, inside there is a deep hole that we cannot close. First of all let them recognize our pain, that we express it in this ceremony, it's not a shame, it's a strength. If someone is afraid of the truth then why should he do what needs to be done?", he resented.