Illustrative: Israeli security personnel stand guard in the aftermath of a violent Palestinian terror attack near Jerusalem, Nov. 16, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Ammar Awad

Israel’s Education Minister Yoav Kisch joined a group of high school students whose friends were injured in a Palestinian terror attack on Monday in song and dance while the senior official was being interviewed on Israeli television.

“The people of Israel are not afraid of a long journey,” they all sang, dancing together while the interviewers sought to get clarity from the minister on what victory would look like for Israel in the ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza.

Kisch opened the interview by saying he was in Raanana, north of Tel Aviv in central Israel, where police say two Palestinians carried out coordinated stabbings and car-rammings, killing an elderly woman and injuring 17 others.

“I am here in Raanana, exactly where there was a terror attack, with students who came here to dance and strengthen the people of Israel and pray for the victory of our soldiers in the war,” Kisch said.

“I spoke to the students and told them a very simple thing: We will continue the war until victory,” the minister added, referring to Israel’s defensive war against Hamas in Gaza following the Palestinian terror group’s Oct. 7 massacre across southern Israel.

The interviewers asked Kisch to clarify what victory meant, to which the Israeli cabinet member responded, “We will not stop until the abductees are returned. We will not stop until Hamas is subdued. We must continue — this is a war for our existence as the people of Israel.”

During Hamas’ Oct. 7 onslaught, terrorists murdered 1,200 people and kidnapped 240 others as hostages, taking them to Gaza. Israel has said it will continue its war against the terror group until all the hostages are freed and Hamas is incapacitated, no longer posing a major threat to the Jewish state.

When Kisch finished his response about Israel continuing its war effort, the singing and dancing started behind him, a few seconds after which he joined in as the broadcasters were unable to continue their questioning.

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The students in the video attend Amit Kfar Batya, a national religious high school in Raanana, where Monday’s terror attack occurred. Two terrorists from the West Bank attacked civilians in the normally peaceful, well-to-do town near Tel Aviv. The victim who died was identified as 79-year-old Edna Bluestein.

Of those injured, seven were children and teenagers, all of whom were taken to the emergency room. Four of the victims remain in serious condition.

The classmates of those injured were the ones dancing with Kisch, who joined them amid their singing and reading from the Hebrew book of Psalms, commonly read to pray for those injured or sick.

The principal of the school, Rabbi Yoni Berlin, told the Israeli network conducting the interview that his students wanted to show that they won’t live in fear.

“Our students have gone through a difficult event. We are all praying for the healing of our seriously injured students and for all the wounded,” he said. “Our students asked to come to the place, to get stronger and stronger in order to raise the flag and tell all those who seek to take our souls that the nation of Israel lives.”