IDF reservists protesting overhaul urge activists not to demonstrate on Memorial Day

By Emanuel Fabian

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19 April 2023, 6:08 pm

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Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

IDF reservists and activists protest against the government's judicial overhaul, outside the Prime Ministers Office in Jerusalem, March 2, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

A protest group representing reservist soldiers calls on its activists to not demonstrate against the government’s planned judicial overhaul on Israel’s Memorial Day next week.

“On the coming Memorial Day, we will not protest because our hearts will be with our brothers and sisters in arms who fell in battle, we will bow our heads for them, we will cry and hug the families,” the Brothers in Arms group says in a statement.

“We call on all the brothers and sisters in arms to leave their protest shirts at home and not to come to the cemeteries with them,” the group adds.

Some members of bereaved military families have called for politicians, notably National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, to be barred from memorial ceremonies.