From Strength of Unified Jerusalem Comes ‘Unity Day’ to Honor Memories of Murdered Boys

The strength of the families of the 3 murdered Israeli teenagers from this past summer shines forth. They have combined their inner strength with the strength of Israel’s unified and eternal capital city of Jerusalem to create a ‘Unity Day’ and the Jerusalem Unity Prize that will strengthen the unity of people of Israel.

Senior Israeli officials will hold two events in Jerusalem next month in memory of the teenage trio who were abducted and murdered last summer by Hamas terrorists.

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Unity Day, to be held on June 3rd, and the Jerusalem Unity Prize, will promote tolerance and cooperation between different sectors of the Jewish people in Israel, and the Diaspora – according to organizers. The prize winners – organizations and individuals who have excelled in promoting messages of unity through their work – will share an NIS 300,000 award in a ceremony to be hosted by Israeli President Reuven Rivlin.

The events were organized by the Mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, along with the parents of Naftali Fraenkel, Gilad Shaer, and Eyal Yifrah. The boys were abducted from a bus stop south of Jerusalem last year by two Hamas terrorists, who shortly after shot them, and hid their bodies.

“The Jerusalem Unity Prize and Unity Day serve to memorialize the three boys by strengthening the common bonds that exist within our Jewish people and encouraging greater tolerance and mutual respect between all sectors of our greater community,” Barkat wrote in a statement to the Tazpit News Agency.

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