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"For health reasons, it is still impossible to transfer the bodies of fallen soldiers in Fallujah" - Letter from Ben-Gurion regarding the fallen soldiers of the War of Independence - May 1, 1949
Response to a parliamentary question submitted by MK Avraham Haim Shag to David Ben-Gurion, regarding the soldiers of the Alexandroni Brigade who fell in the Fallujah Pocket in the War of Independence and have not yet been brought for burial. A typed letter on official letterhead paper signed by David Ben-Gurion. Dated July 5, 1949.
In his response Ben-Gurion writes: "The IDF Chief Rabbi is dealing with the issue of the Agunot and prepares the material so that a rabbinical court will be able to release the fallen soldiers' wives from the chains of Igun... For health reasons it is still impossible to transfer the bodies of the soldiers who fell in Fallujah. By doctors' orders, the transfer will only take place in another few months, and the transfer of the bodies will not be delayed even one unnecessary day. The transfer of the bodies will facilitate identification and help release the chains of Igun". Official letterhead paper, 27x21 cm. Filing holes. Very good condition.
Also attached is the parliamentary question itself, submitted by MK Avraham Haim Shag to David Ben-Gurion. May 1, 1949. In the question, Haim Shag writes about the suffering of the parents of some eighty fallen soldiers waiting for their sons to be identified and brought for burial in Israel. Avraham Haim Shag's official letterhead paper 27x21 cm. Filing holes. Very good condition.
Indeed at the end of that year, on December 8, 1949, after a lengthy and painful identification operation led by Rabbi Goren, the fallen soldiers' bodies from the battle were brought for eternal burial in the Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery.
