Benjamin Netanyahu will not be present at the annual commemoration today on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin killed in 1995 by a Jewish extremist.
Netanyahu - the first opposition leader to skip the ceremony - will however be among the speakers, together with Prime Minister Naftali Bennet and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, to speak at the Knesset in memory of Rabin.
Netanyahu did not give explanations for his decision while his office recalled that the protocol does not provide for the participation of the opposition leader in the ceremony on Mount Herzl.
The media, on the other hand, recalled the contrasts between the former prime minister and the Rabin family who repeatedly accused him of having been at the time among the instigators of the incitement against the center-left politician, later murdered by Ygal Amir.
Allegations that Netanyahu rejected every time with disdain.
