Page 6 - Ulpanor E-Tone (17.01.17) Advanced Level

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The Ministers don’t Come

Yesterday, hundreds of family members, friends, acquaintances,
neighbors, as well as several Knesset Members attended the funeral of
Lieutenant Shir Hagag, may she rest in peace, one of those murdered at the
grave terror attack on Sunday at the Armon Hanetsiv promenade in
Jerusalem. But not even one of the twenty one ministers saw it fit to pay
her last respects as representative of the government. No minister bothered
coming to the funerals of the other three victims of the terror attack,
Second Lieutenant Erez Orbach from Alon Shevut, Second Lieutenant
Shira Tzur from Haifa and Lieutenant Ya’el Yekuti’el from Givatayim,
either. Last night as this was published on the news here, Prime Minister
Netanyahu instructed Cabinet Secretary Tzahi Bravermen to formulate a
mandatory protocol for the participation of cabinet members, ministers and
assistant-ministers, in the funerals of IDF soldiers who were killed in
action or terror attacks. But the storm hasn’t died down, (and) neither has
the bereaved parents’ anger. This skepticism rests, among other things, on
the decision made by no other than the Netanyahu government itself
[already] in two thousand one. This was a bill introduced following the
Carmel disaster and makes government representation at a funeral or a
condolence call of a security forces casualty mandatory. Even now several
similar bills were already placed on the Knesset’s desk, one can only
wonder whether their fate would be the same.

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