ראש הממשלה נתניהו בהדלקת נר שני של חנוכה | PM Netanyahu lit second Chanukkah candle at the Kotal

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara lit the second Hanukkah candle at the Western Wall in Jerusalem together with IDF soldiers, the Rabbi of the Western Wall and Holy Sites, Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, and his wife, Western Wall Heritage Foundation Director Mordechai (Soli) Eliav, and US Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his wife Janet. Prime Minister Netanyahu and his wife Sara, placed a note between the stones of the Western Wall for the success of the IDF soldiers and security forces. Mrs. Netanyahu expressed her wishes for the return of the fallen hostage, a hero of Israel, Ran Gvili, of blessed memory. "Dear friends, Sara and I are very moved to be with you, brave soldiers of Israel. I look into your eyes, and I see the determination, and the courage, and the heroism of the Maccabees. You are the Maccabees of our time. I do not say this lightly, not as an empty statement, but out of a deep belief that I know you share, that we are essentially performing the same miracles that the Maccabees performed 2,200 years ago," Netanyahu told the troops. He explained that the Maccabees "stood against a force that tried to wipe the people of Israel, the Jews, and Judaism off th