Likud minister Distel Atbaryan cancels attendance at Memorial Day ceremony

23 April 2023, 5:44 pm

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Then-Public Diplomacy Minister Galit Distel Atbaryan at a Federation of Local Authorities conference in Tel Aviv, December 8, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Firebrand Public Diplomacy Minister Galit Distel Atbaryan, a Likud MK, becomes the latest government member to cancel her scheduled participation in a Memorial Day ceremony on Tuesday, saying she will adhere to requests by some relatives of fallen soldiers and terror victims not to attend.

“I bow my head completely before bereaved families,” she says in a statement, while lamenting the current situation in which “everything is politicized, slowly but surely sawing the branch we are all sitting on.”