‘We need more compromise in this bloody period’: Fauda actor calls on Regev to accept president’s offer to host Oct. 7 memorial

After Transportation Minister Miri Regev rejected President Isaac Herzog’s offer to host the politically fraught October 7 state memorial ceremony at his Jerusalem residence, “Fauda” actor and singer-songwriter Idan Amedi reached out to her yesterday evening in an attempt to change her mind.

Amedi, who was seriously injured fighting in Gaza earlier this year, writes in a post addressed to Regev that she should “talk to the prime minister, accept President Herzog’s compromise for a single and unifying ceremony at the President’s Residence, without politics.”

“A compromise in this matter will not make you look small and it does not look like giving in, on the contrary,” he writes.

“We need more compromise between us in this bloody period,” he continues, “to give us all the possibility, despite our differences, to cry together and be consoled together for our deceased loved ones.”

Amedi, who last week criticized Regev for saying that the backlash over her involvement in the event was just “noise,” quotes Menachem Begin, who founded the Likud party of which Regev is a member.

“When he was elected prime minister, Menachem Begin was asked by a journalist: ‘In what way will you lead the people?'” Amedi writes. “Begin answered him: ‘In a good Jewish style.’ Act like this, for all of us, and maybe we will be able to make peace between us in this dark year.”