Netanyahu apologizes after ministers skip Yom Kippur War memorial

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologizes that no members of his cabinet attended the the annual memorial service for the soldiers who fell in the Yom Kippur War.

“This is an unfortunate mistake and I apologize to the bereaved families. I have instructed the Government Secretariat to ensure there will be representation in the ceremonies of those killed in Israel’s wars in the future,” the prime minister says in a statement.

“There is no greater duty than the one to the loved ones of the soldiers who died so that we can live in our country,” Netanyahu adds.

The government was lambasted as “embarrassing” after it failed to send a single minister to the ceremony at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.