On Rabbi Metzger's site, www.tfila.org.il, Jews from all over the world can sign up and agree to take part in a joint prayer service scheduled for this Tuesday night at 7 PM (12 noon New York time). At the same time, the anniversary memorial gathering for Gush Katif will also be convening at the Western Wall, for a prayer service on behalf of the country, its soldiers and the citizens on the front.



The prayers will be on behalf of the "well-being of our soldiers and their success, the recovery of the wounded, and the safe return of the captives to the loving arms of their families."



Those who cannot commit themselves to pray at a specific time can recite the prayer at any other time, as well as the twice-daily Shma (Hear O Israel) prayer (Deut. 6, 5-9).



Among the wounded soldiers who should be mentioned in the prayers are the following five who were wounded in Lebanon on July 26:

Ariel ben [son of] Janette

Sha'ul ben Shulamit

Gal ben Shoshana

Yuval ben Yehudit

Guy Yosef ben Ela



Other wounded soldiers:

Amichai ben Orah

Gideon ben Yehudit

Elro'i Rafael ben Galia Glynis

Tzur Pinchas ben Sarit Sara Rivka

Yogev Menashe ben Bruriah



Israel also has eight soldiers in enemy captivity, namely:


  • Gilad ben Aviva (Shalit), captured just outside Gaza on June 25 of this year;

  • Ehud ben Malka (Goldwasser) and Eldad ben Tova (Regev), captured on the Israeli-Lebanese border July 12 of this year;

  • Guy ben Rina (Hever), disappeared near the Syrian-Israeli border in the Golan Heights in August 1997;

  • Ron ben Batya (Arad), captured when his plane was downed over Lebanon in Oct. 1986;

  • and Tzvi ben Pninah (Feldman), Yekutiel Yehuda Nachman ben Sarah (Katz), and Zecharia Shlomo ben Miriam (Baumel), all captured at the Sultan Yaaqub battle in Lebanon on June 11, 1982.