Today the Jewish world continued to mourn the deaths of Eldad and Udi.  I hope that more than the Jewish world care and are thinking of them.

This is one of the days when I accutely feel far away from Israel.  I wish my aliyah was already complete and I could have been there today.  Reading accounts of the funerals helps, yet doing so increases my saddness.

Some links:

– Ha’aretz on the funerals including some quotes from the eulogies and families

– JPost on the funerals

– JPost story, including a heartbreaking story about how Udi was nearly released from his miluyim (reserve duty).