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Families of hostages ask for loved ones’ coffins to lie in state outside Knesset
A view of the main building of the Knesset in Jerusalem, December 26, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
The families of a number of hostages sign onto a letter to Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana requesting that the coffins of their loved ones be able to lie in state outside the Knesset after they return.
The letter, penned by Yesh Atid MK Meirav Cohen, says that those who “paid with their lives because the country could not protect them” are “worthy of a final honor” that would allow the public to come and pay their respects after their bodies are returned to Israel.
Those signed onto the letter include family members of Inbar Haiman, Alex Dancyg, Itzik Elgarat, Tamir Nimrodi, Elad Katzir, Idan Shtivi and others — some of whom have already been returned to Israel and some whose fate remains unknown.
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