Miri Regev: Independence Day torches to be lit at Gaza border communities instead of Mount Herzl

8 April 2024, 7:43 pm

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Fireworks at the 75th anniversary Independence Day ceremony, held at Mount Herzl, Jerusalem, on April 25, 2023.(Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Transportation Minister Miri Regev, who is responsible for planning Israel’s Independence Day events, announces that, for the first time, the Independence Day Ceremony that marks the end of Memorial Day each year will take place without a live audience, and not on Mount Herzl.

Instead, the ceremony will take place in an adapted format to honor those who fell in the Hamas massacre of October 7. The traditional torches which are usually lit at the ceremony on Mount Herzl will instead be lit inside the Gaza border communities attacked on October 7, as well as on the targeted IDF bases which suffered heavy losses.

Because of the adapted format, the lighting of the torches will be done without an audience and will instead be broadcast across the country.