‘This wedding is both defiance and pride’
WDG is the Washington Blade’s media partner in Israel. This article ran on WDG’s website on Nov. 23. Among dozens of reservists who became a family, with a spontaneous canopy at the B&B in Ein Yahav and refreshments donated with much love from Eilat businesses and residents, Adam Din and Ilan Cohen held their wedding ceremony Nov.
22. “We did this wedding because it is important to us that the world knows that there is love even in the middle of the war and that we can celebrate love as well through it all,” said the couple.
Adam and Ilan’s wedding was scheduled to take place about two weeks ago on the beach between Ashdod and Nitzanim. The invitations were already prepared, but the terrible massacre on Oct.
7, and the war that broke out in its wake, postponed all their plans. Ilan was immediately drafted into the reserves in the Gaza Division, leaving Adam alone at home.
