At the special meeting, among others, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the chairman of the opposition Lapid will speak. At the morning rally, Minister Ganz said: "We see violence in society and we must act against it."
The Knesset plenum is currently holding a special sitting (Thursday) to mark the 25th anniversary of the assassination of the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
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During the meeting, Knesset Speaker MK Yariv Levin, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Opposition Leader MK Yair Lapid, Minister of Economy and Industry MK Amir Peretz will speak.
At the state ceremony to open the Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Day events, President Rivlin said this morning: "Every year I light Yitzhak's candle and feel how the earth outside burns - this year more than ever. I have a fear that the high flames inside us endanger the house and the Israeli fabric we built Yitzhak Rabin was a political assassin. The despicable killer thought he had legitimacy to eliminate, in effect, the existence of sharp and deep political disagreement. Yes, I was on the opposite side of Yitzhak Rabin in this political debate. Like me, there were many others. Through us, we did not imagine for a moment the horror scenario we will reach in this ideological struggle. "
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The president added: "Hatred is bubbling under our feet. Signs calling for the deaths of civilians cannot be hoisted. It is impossible for journalists to live under threats. It is impossible for civilians to beat civilians. There can be no verbal violence against police officers. There can be no one. "Dare to imagine that the political assassination of a prime minister, minister, president, MK, is possible at all. We can not thus shape the shadow of the possibility of the next political assassination, who in words and who in silence, who in look and who in diversion, who in deeds and who in helplessness." .
Defense Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Ganz said at the ceremony: "'Violence is eroding the foundation of democracy,'" Rabin and Justice said.
This day deserves to serve us as a true mirror society for where we were, where we were supposed to be and where we came from.
If we leaders fail to hold a debate in the Knesset or the government, how can we talk to each other on the street?
We see the violence in society and must act against it.
If Rabin had been here today, he would have welcomed the peace agreements, and is disturbed by what we see inside the house. "
Dalia Rabin, the daughter of the late prime minister, spoke after them: "25 years have passed. I open my eyes every morning and my heart aches. Where have we come from? The country is mired in swampy mud, an undecipherable deadly virus strikes us in an unprecedented way. It is of tens of thousands of people who are sent to sickness and unemployment, and are facing a broken trough.
At the same time, all the failures of the government are exposed.
This is the first time that the threat to our existence has come from within us and not from our Egypt.
"Dad, I look up, look for you and know that you have long since belonged to another era. You are taken, and the country is so lacking in you."