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Monday, December 22, 2025
Bereaved families: Government ‘will not bury the truth’ with politically appointed Oct. 7 probe
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSam Sokol is a former political correspondent at The Times of Israel. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
The October Council, made up of families whose loved ones were killed on October 7 and in the subsequent war, slams the government after the Ministerial Committee for Legislation backs Likud MK Ariel Kallner’s bill to establish a proposed “national state investigation committee” in place of a state commission of inquiry into the failures.
“They will not bury the truth,” the group says.
Ahead of this morning’s vote, members of the group protested near the Prime Minister’s Office.
“We will not let them evade responsibility for what they did here on October 7, and for the sacrifice of the hostages who should have returned alive. They are trying to evade responsibility. We will not let them evade responsibility. A state commission of inquiry will be established, and they will not succeed in evading it,” Gil Dickmann, whose cousin Carmel Gat was kidnapped on October 7 and subsequently murdered by her Gazan captors in a Rafah tunnel, told reporters.
The Democrats chairman Yair Golan also slams the advancement of Kallner’s bill, which is slated to go to the Knesset for a preliminary reading on Wednesday, declaring that the “government of draft dodgers and looters spat in the faces of bereaved families again this morning.” Golan argues that this “pathetic attempt to engineer a political investigation is an admission of guilt.”
“Anyone who covers up the greatest disaster in the country’s history for the sake of political survival knows they are guilty, and will never be absolved,” Golan asserts.
The Times of Israel Community.