Beautiful boy, you deserve to rest in peace

UPDATE: it’s official. Hadar Goldin is home!!!!

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Hadar, are you really coming home?

We’ve seen your beautiful smile plastered on bumper stickers and banners, signs and signposts for almost ten years.

You have been this light- a life full of potential; your sweet fiance, your family, your community- you were stolen so long ago during that horrible summer of Tzuk Eitan.

G*za back then was like a black hole. From the Jewish imagination, whatever was sucked into its darkness would never come out again.

Your parents never gave up on you. Fought for you. Called out for you, even though we knew that you were no longer al*ve.

Your body is sacred too, Hadar. We have never forgotten you. Not for one day.

Not for one heartbeat.

They said that they found your b*dy.

Good, lord they announced that they are on the way to pick you up.

I saw the picture of the paper with your name on it, a b*dy beneath.

Honestly, Hadar, we can't breathe but to hope that it's you.

That you will come home in dignity. All of you that's left on this earth.

You deserve to come home to a final resting place among your people.

The land that you d*ed to protect.

Your comrades need this.

Your loved ones need this.

Your people need this.

Pray for us, Hadar. Pray that this is your time. Pray that it's really you.

We have waited for you for so long.

You have waited too long.

Beautiful boy, you deserve to rest in peace.