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Tuesday, November 3, 2026
Relatives of Oct. 7 victims call on opposition leaders to form ‘government of change’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleJessica Steinberg, The Times of Israel's culture and lifestyles editor, covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center
Relatives of people who were killed and taken hostage during the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack stand outside the meeting of members of the anti-Netanyahu bloc of party leaders this morning in Herzliya.
They call on party leaders not to legitimize the leaders who were at the helm during the October 7 massacre and to form a new government.
“You have a mandate to create a government of change,” says Merav Swirsky, whose parents, Orit and Rafi Swirsky, were killed at their home in Kibbutz Be’eri and whose brother, Itay Swirsky, was abducted and killed in captivity. “We ask you to make every effort to form a government of change, with no members of the previous government. Any cooperation with the government responsible for the October 7 massacre would legitimize the abandonment we endured.”
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