מִי שֶׁבֵּרַךְ Prayer for Israel’s Defense Forces: The verse with which the prayer ends is taken from the speech that the “Kohen anointed for war” spoke to Israel before they went out to battle in biblical times (Deut. 20:4). Israel, always small, always outnumbered by its neighbors, places its faith in God and the justice of its cause, not on military might alone.