In the video: the Druze community demands that members of the government not attend the Memorial Day ceremonies: "Our martyrs fell for a democratic state" (without)
Minister of National Security and Chairman of Otzma Yehudit Itamar Ben Gvir intends to participate and speak at the official memorial ceremony at the military cemetery in Be'er Sheva - this despite the criticism against him. On the other hand, MK Zvika Vogel from his party announced that he will not attend the memorial day ceremony in Rosh Pina and explained that he " He will not allow the memory of the fallen to be harmed."
According to sources in Ben Gvir's environment, he is expected to give a "state speech" and not to address the disturbances, if there are any.
Ben Gvir's decision came despite calls from some of the bereaved families that he not come to the ceremony or at least not speak at it and despite statements by some protest activists against the legal reform that they intend to sing while Ben Gvir speaks at the ceremony.
Those around Ben Gvir said that he also received requests from bereaved families to participate in the ceremony and not to be absent from it and that he intends to do so as a representative of the government.
Part of the criticism against Ben Gvir was leveled against him because of his failure to serve in the IDF. Ben Gvir yesterday sent a letter of warning to the "Arms for Arms" organization, which published against him in recent weeks that he had "evaded military service" and demanded compensation of ten million shekels. Ben Gvir claimed that he tried to enlist in the IDF. L, Shabbat Raev in front of the recruiting office and his mother turned to the Chief of Staff at the time. In the letter he claimed: "I didn't know anyone else who was willing to make such efforts to enlist.
Will this be called a dodger?".
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"He will deliver a state speech."
Ben Gabir (Photo: Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel)
Minister Mai Golan will also not attend the memorial ceremony in Rishon LeZion, according to her due to "constraints related to the date of her return to Israel" from advocacy activities in the United States.
The HaModi newspaper, which is affiliated with the Agudath Israel faction in the Knesset headed by Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf, called in an editorial for ultra-Orthodox representatives to refrain from attending official ceremonies at the military cemeteries on Memorial Day.
This morning, Chief of Staff Hertzi Halevi called for the controversy surrounding the legal revolution to be left out of the Memorial Day events. "We must all respect the cemeteries and not turn them into an arena for debate," he wrote, "This year, precisely in the shadow of tensions, we must focus on personal memory and wrap ourselves in its human strength.
The order of remembrance obliges us to unite around him and focus on the one who connects us."
Last night, before the demonstration against the legal revolution, a memorial display of bereaved families was set up on Kaplan Street in Tel Aviv. In the city's Hiba Square, the Israeli flag was lowered to half-mast before the march left the venue.
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The day of remembrance for the martyrs of Israel's systems and the victims of hostilities