The great Jewish feast of Passover begins at sundown on April 1. And in reflecting on the “festival of freedom,” a top Israeli official reminded the world that freedom is never free, and must be defended, sometimes with weapons of war.
Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Gideon Sa’ar posted on X, “Tonight, around the Seder table, we’ll ask: ‘Why is this night different?’ In our national soul-searching, it’s important that we know how to answer this question well and precisely.” And he has an answer, too: “There’s no freedom without the willingness to defend it.”
In an unprecedented victory, the Jewish people in the 20th century reclaimed part of the homeland God promised to them as a perpetual possession (Genesis 17:8) thousands of years ago. Sa’ar explained, “Most of us were privileged to be born into a sovereign and free Jewish state in the land of our ancestors, after 2,000 years of exile. We were born into freedom and statehood after generations of exile, persecution, and destruction.”
The tragic reality is that the rebirth of Israel was immediately met by Islamic terror, which has never stopped since. “Israel has fought for its existence since the day it was born,” Sa’ar stated. “The truth is that there hasn’t been a single day in which we have not stood on guard, in which we haven’t fought. From the founding of the state until today.”
He quoted a song that says, “I promise you, my little girl, that this will be the last war.” Unfortunately, the demonic jihadis who hate God’s people are determined that each war they lose will never be the last. Hence, Sa’ar emphasized, “The existence of the Jewish people in its land can and will only be secured by the willingness to fight and by building the strength required to do so.”
From slavery to freedom, the story of Passover continues to inspire hope and resilience.
Wishing you a meaningful Passover. Chag Sameach 🇮🇱 pic.twitter.com/BOylSM4Ebp
— Israel ישראל (@Israel) April 1, 2026
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God commanded the Israelites to wage war on evil enemies numerous times in the Old Testament (e.g., 1 Samuel/Kings 15:3, Joshua 6, Numbers 31:2). During the first Passover, however, God Himself slew the firstborn of all the Egyptians to ensure His people would go free. God commanded the celebration of Passover in Exodus 12, the sacrifice of unblemished lambs (a figure of the Messiah to come), the eating of the lambs with unleavened bread, and finally the exit from Egypt. The Egyptian pharaoh of that era tried to wipe out the Jews, as the terrorist Iranian regime wishes to do today.
Referring to Iran’s regime, Sa’ar affirmed, “We stood before a danger of elimination. Our enemies, chief among them the Ayatollah regime in Iran, devised a plan of elimination. Not only through clear public declarations revealing their intentions. Not merely as an abstract aspiration, but as a concrete plan.” This included “huge quantities of ballistic missiles alongside ground forces of their proxies on Israel’s borders. A multi-front invasion combined with unimaginable volumes of ballistic missile fire. Intelligence captured during the war across various fronts after Oct. 7th, 2023, confirms this beyond any doubt.”
Sa’ar continued:
Alongside this, the mad Iranian regime advanced its nuclear program, step by step, with the aim of obtaining nuclear weapons to enable elimination through non-conventional means.
The historic decisions we made in the Security Cabinet in June 2025 and February 2026 were, simply, decisions to remove the threat of elimination that hung over the Jewish people in their land. Every such decision carries costs and involves risks. But the dangers we prevented are far greater…Today, we can say: We’ve removed the threat of elimination. We still have bitter and cruel enemies, but they’ve been dealt a severe blow. We don’t promise that this will be the “last war.” We’ll need, in the future too, to remain vigilant against the schemes of our enemies. But had we not chosen to act against existential threats and had the IDF and other security forces not carried out these decisions in an inspiring manner, we would’ve left Israel in an impossible situation.
While the regime can still fire at Israel, it is now incapable of destroying it. Meanwhile, the Israeli government is already preparing for the next diplomatic deal and the next war. “The meaning of the decisions we made is one: Israel won’t agree to live under the threat of elimination. Not in the present and not in the future,” Sa’ar declared. “Our determination to defend our freedom and the State of Israel is absolute. With God’s help, we shall do and we shall succeed, for ‘the Eternity of Israel will not lie.’”
May God bless all those celebrating Passover not only in Israel, but around the world.
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