On the Israeli calendar, three days of national commemoration follow Passover in quick succession. Yom Hashoah falls on the 27th of Nissan, and Yom Hazikaron—the day of remembrance for Israeli soldiers—falls a week later on the 4th of Iyyar, followed by Independence on the next day. (In 2019 the dates correspond, respectively, to May 2, 8, and 9.) The Israeli poet Tzur Erlich describes this stretch of days in four compact rhymed verses, titled B’hefresh shel shavua (“A Week Apart”). Herewith, an English translation by Ehud Schwammenthal and Michael Doran; the Hebrew original is available at the link below.
Each year two memorials close in date,
A general reckoning to aid
What cost to us is a state,
And without, what price is paid.
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