Archive for the ‘Memorial Day’ tag
Military and Security Forces: April 11, 2013
The IDF will not permit entry to Israel to 109 Palestinians who planned on participating in the annual Combatants for Peace Memorial Day ceremony. (+972)
(Hebrew – Walla!)
Closed Society: May 4, 2012
Arab students were forced to stand to honor an Israeli memorial day ceremony at Western Galilee College in Northern Israel. The college dean confirmed that ” It is true that we wetted the benches [to prevent them from sitting] and will do the same in future years.”
State and Religion: April 30, 2012
A number of observant employees of the Bank of Israel left a Memorial Day ceremony held at by the bank in protest over the performance of singer Shuli Natan. Other employees chose not to attend the ceremony for the same reason.
(Hebrew - nrg)
Military and Security Forces: April 23, 2012
Haredi soldiers have announced that they will boycott the Memorial Day ceremony in the IDF’s Naval Commando base in Atlit if it will include women singing.
(Hebrew - Walla)
Military and Security Forces: May 11, 2011
Military judge Maj. Sharon Keinan ordered to extend the detention of a 15 year old Palestinian of Bil’in by five more days, because hearings were not held at the Ofer base military court, during Memorial Day and Independence Day. The boy is suspected of throwing stones. At the beginning of the hearing the boy claimed that the soldiers assaulted him when he was arrested; “They kicked me, attacked me. There was a lot of blood. My head is also bruised. A military medic treated me.”
(hebrew)
Economy: 3 May, 2011
This year Memorial Day ceremonies were privatized in many places in the country. For the first time, in the central ceremony in Jerusalem the admission will not be free .
(hebrew)
