"Holiday Horror Story"/Courtesy of Civic Information Headquarters
The government will approve tomorrow (Sunday) at its weekly meeting a proposal to establish an annual national day of remembrance for the October 7 disaster.
According to the proposal, a national day of remembrance for the events of October 7th commemorating the disaster will be held every year in Tishri, and memorial ceremonies will be held in all state institutions and the IDF, including a state memorial ceremony commemorating the martyrs and fallen of the Iron Swords War.
In the coming year, according to the decision, the array for ceremonies and state events will also hold a state ceremony on October 7, the foreign anniversary of the Hamas attack.
In the explanation of the proposal, it is stated that "October 7 is engraved in the public consciousness in Israel as the day of the terrible massacre. Precisely to mark the first year of the largest terrorist attack in our history, in response to the clamor of the public in Israel, there is a need to commemorate the event in a one-time manner on its foreign date, which was enshrined in the consciousness of the people of Israel and in the consciousness of the world The phrase 'seven in October' is ambiguous and related to the Jewish term 'seven', which indicates the mourning at the end of the first year of mourning for the outbreak of the attack."
The destruction at the scene of the massacre in Kfar Gaza/Reuters, Ilan Rosenberg
The destroyed houses in Kibbutz Bari/Avi Rokah
In addition, the government will tomorrow approve the appointment of Minister Ofir Akunis to the position of Consul General in New York, and the appointment of Minister Gila Gamaliel to the Minister of Innovation and Science.
Aconis will be appointed for a period of three years with the possibility of extension for a fourth year.
The round of cases compiled by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is intended, among other things, to crowd out internal ranks in Likud and upgrade Gamaliel to a more significant case for fear that he will join the move to overthrow the government.
The move also includes the closure of the Ministry of Intelligence, which Gamaliel has headed since the government was formed.
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