The haredi battalion Netzach Yehuda carried a Torah scroll, in a march that began at the completion of their military activity in the northern Gaza Strip and ended at the battalion synagogue at the Erez base.

Hundreds of soldiers, bereaved families, rabbis and other guests were waiting at the entrance to the base, and joined the procession, singing and dancing into the IDF base.

The event was attended by Rabbi David Yosef, Rabbi Yitzhak Bar Haim, one of the founders of Netzach Yehuda, bereaved families, First Sergeant Yaron Sebag, Battalion Sergeant, Lt. Col. Lior Doft, Battalion Commander and many soldiers of the battalion.

The Torah scroll was donated by the Haleb (Aleppo) community from Brooklyn, led by Rabbi Azriel Mansour, who contacted Rabbi Yosef Zvi Rimon, the chief rabbi of Gush Etzion, and told him that the community was interested in donating a small Torah scroll to the IDF units inside Gaza.

The Rabbi told the donors that a small scroll is suitable for the Netzach Yehuda battalion, which maneuvers inside the Gaza Strip and has lost many soldiers. According to Rabbi Rimon, the Torah scroll will give the soldiers a lot of strength and will light the way for them. The Torah scroll was donated in memory of the battalion soldiers who fell in the Swords of Iron War.