Politicians and protesters urged to stay away from events honouring those killed serving in armed forces and in terrorist attacks
memorial day, in which those killed serving in the armed forces as well as terrorist attacks are honoured, is usually quiet and sombre; then, at sunset, independence day celebrations and fireworks begin.
A plan to send the extremist national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, as the government’s representative at a ceremony in the southern town of Beersheba, has also drawn ire from some members of the community, who point out the Israel Defence Forces exempted him from military service as a teenagerOpposition leader Yair Lapid announced last week he is boycotting the Mount Herzl ceremony, addressing the government in a statement: “You have torn Israeli society apart, and no phoney fireworks...
Heightened tensions and ugly rhetoric on a day that is supposed to supersede politics are not new: in 2022, some bereaved families, as well as Netanyahu’s Likud party, demanded that cabinet members in the short-lived “government of change” stay away from memorial day ceremonies, accusing the broad coalition of supporting terrorism.
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