Itongadol.- Letter accuses Prime Minister of excluding terror victims \’as a national ethos,\’ claims that speech will provoke loud protests.
Bereaved fathers, Ron Kerman Yossi Zur and Yossi Mendelowitz have stepped up their campaign against the national Memorial Day ceremony on Monday, now calling for bereaved families to boycott the public event.
The fathers sent a scathing second letter to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Sunday, in which they "call for bereaved families not to attend this year\’s Memorial Day ceremonies at 1:00PM on Har Herzl."
First, however, they addressed the Prime Minister.
"Last week, we sent you a letter asking you not to attend the ceremony on Mount Herzl and not to make a public address," they began. "We were not at all surprised at the lack of a response to our appeal."
"Since sending our first letter, you were present at the laying of the cornerstone for the Memorial Hall for Israel\’s Fallen on Har Herzl," they said. "This shrine does not immortalize our children, nor one of the thousands of victims of terrorism and terrorist violence. This week, you met with a delegation of orphans of fallen IDF soldiers, but did not bother to book, prior to Memorial Day, a meeting with even one orphan or widow of terror and terrorist violence."