yahil's father escaped the holocaust and found refuge in america. as a young man, yahil moved to israel and raised a family of eight children. he named his son after his late father. he became an exemplary officer. he served with distinction for two decades, while raising six beautiful children of his own. on october 7th, mushev volunteered to return to combat. four weeks later he was killed when a booby-trap mine exploded into a tunnel shaft right next to a mosque. at his son's funeral, yahil said this, if the state of israel had not been established after the holocaust, the image engraved in our collective memory would have been the photograph of that hopeless jewish boy in the warsaw ghetto holding his hands up in the air with nazi rifles pointed at him. but because of the birth of israel, yahil continued, because of the courage of soldiers like my son, the jewish people are no longer helpless in the face of our enemies. [ applause ] [ cheers and applause ] yahil, please rise so we can honor your son's sacrifice, and i pledge to you and to all th