The Last Remnants ...

On the connecting path between Har Herzl, Jerusalem’s military cemetery, and Yad Vashem, is a monument for the “Last Remnants”; 275 survivors of the death and concentration camps of the Holocaust, who managed to reach the shores of Israel, donned the uniform of the I.D.F., and fell in the War of Independence, leaving no family behind. Their families were wiped out earlier .... Menachem Ungar, hy”d, was one of these ....

Rabbi Noam Himelstein studied in Yeshivat Har Etzion and served in the Tanks Corps of the IDF. He has taught in yeshiva high schools, post-high school women’s seminaries, and headed the Torah MiTzion Kollel in Melbourne, Australia. He currently teaches at Yeshivat Orayta in Jerusalem, and lives with his wife and six children in Neve Daniel, Gush Etzion.