The Knesset's Constitution Committee approved an amendment that will make it possible to indicate in the appendix to the identity card the loss of the boy or girl • MK Yaakov Asher: "A right act that sets us apart as a people"
Committee members point to the amendment
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Danny Shem Tov, Spokeswoman for the Knesset
The Constitution Committee today (Monday) approved the Regulations of the Population Registry, according to which bereaved parents whose child fell in the Israeli systems or perished in hostilities can register this in the ID card appendix next to the name of the child who died in these circumstances.
Until today, it was possible at most to ask to leave the name of the space or perished in the addition of the "late" score. The regulations will take effect in three months. The committee's chairman, MK Yaakov, who said at the end of the discussion:
We have the right to correct this.
Our duty is to take care of commemoration and I thank Minister Aryeh Deri for the prompt treatment of the issue.
I thank you on behalf of all the people of Israel, it is a right deed that sets us apart as a people. "
Prof. Shlomo Mor-Yosef, director of the Immigration and Population Authority, testified about himself as a bereaved brother and said: "The issue is very important, substantial and exciting. What leads us is the issue of uniformity .. It is difficult to say that it is a festive event but it is a special event of fixing something that has not been thought of before. "
Ofer Mendelovich, Oz's father, a Golani patrol fighter who fell at Tzuk Eitan in the battle of Sajaiya, said:
I posted a post in which I wrote that he did not die but snatched a bundle in the army and that is how he was killed. "
He added, "It is true that this is something small within the IDF and you can hardly see it, but the bereaved parents will feel comfortable opening the certificate and seeing that the state remembers that their children did not just die and that there was a reason for it."
I proposed to synchronize between the computer of the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Population.
I am sure that the bereaved families will also be satisfied with this amendment, according to which it will be written "the space of the Israeli systems" or "a hostile action perished" without detail, which allows a little relief on this issue. "
Eli Ben Shem, chairman of the Yad LaBanim organization, responded to the approval: "This is great news for many bereaved parents.
I came across parents who go with a crumbling ID card because their son is listed there.
I always have 6 kids and the sixth is Kobe who was killed in the helicopter disaster.
I always miss him, I get up with him and go to sleep with him and when you take the child off the IDF, it's like they took off part of the body. "
Aryeh Mualem, head of the Department of Families and Commemoration at the Ministry of Defense, said: "The wording is coordinated with us and reflects the reality as it is. We asked for 3 months to organize with the Social Security and bring the decision to fruition."