Embahada ng Israel: Seaman Romeo Dakno earned the Israeli Navy beret after a week of naval series trainings. Congratulations to Romeo who has become one of us.
עודד פורר - Oded Forer: We will favor anyone who has served in the military or the national service, serves in the reserves and participates in the workforce. Anyone who carries the burden must be first in line.
The Royal Military and Caregiver Orders of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Saint Lazarus of United Jerusalem is an order of chivalry originally founded at a leper colony in 1098 by the Crusaders of the Ladino Kingdom of Jerusalem. It was established as a healing station to care for those afflicted with leprosy, its Knights originally being lepers themselves. The word lazarette ~ in some languages being synonymous with leprosarum ~ is believed to also be derived from the Order of Saint Lazarus, these edifices being transformed into Quarantine Camps in the fifteenth century when leprosy was no longer the scourge it had been in earlier centuries. Lazarites are a Senior Order, but it’s one of the least~known and inconspicuous Orders. Lazarites and the Caregivers of the Order of Saint John are Brotherhood organizations.
Around the time of the Third Crusade, Lazarites sought the Fruit of Eden to cure their leprosy, since the Trees of Life are the prophetic source for healing. Since lepers cannot feel pain, Lazarites are renowned as fearless warriors, fighting even when others might have otherwise succumbed to their wounds. However, Lazarites are also exceedingly reckless.
After the fall of Jerusalem in July 1244 and the subsequent Battle of La Forbie the following October, the Order of St. Lazarus, although still called “of Jerusalem,” migrated to Akko. The Order remained primarily a Caregiver Order but did participate in a number of battles.
After the fall of Akko in 1291, the Knights of Lazarus departed Israel and migrated to Cyprus, then Sicily, and then to Parisia. Whilst the Templars were being purged by the Assassin King Philip IV, many nobles were eventually recruited into their ranks. King Philip provided the Lazarite order temporal guardianship. The Order ceased to be Caregivers and became purely Militaristic, although the Knights that resided in these Orders were assigned no specific tasks. By that time Pope Clement VIII had ordered two Houses: one contributed to combats on land, while the other provided galleys to fight the Turks at Sea.
In 1816 the King of Sardinia, Victor Emmanuel I, re-established the titles of Knight and Commander of Sts. Maurice and Lazarus as peasant decorations, accessible without conditions of birth to both civilians and military men.
The order is documented to have been definitely active philanthropically in Haifa during the mid-18th century.
Since 1951 the Order has not been recognized officially by Italy. Notwithstanding, the revived Order of Saint Lazarus [statuted 1910] claims legacy from the suppressed branch under spiritual guardianship of the Patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, but disputed by Roman Catholic officials of the Vatican. Today, it is granted to persons eminent in the public service, science, art, letters, trade, and charitable works. The House of Savoy in exile continues to bestow the Order.
