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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 372

Yevgeny Tolotzki

Soldiers and citizens standing near the graves of fallen IDF soldiers as the two-minute-siren marking Memorial Day is sounded across the country, in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl during Memorial Day in 2013 (photo credit: Gili Yaair/Flash90)
July 7, 2013, 10:03 am
After Knesset balks, IDF to directly integrate military burials
Ya’alon to put Jews and non-Jews in different rows of same section, after bill to bury soldiers together shelved due to religious MK opposition
By Haviv Rettig Gur and Gavriel Fiske
Israelis mourning at a gravesite on Mount Herzl in April. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
July 4, 2013, 1:10 pm
Soldier burial bill faces mounting opposition
Jewish Home party turns against initiative to bury Jewish and non-Jewish troops alongside each other; IDF set to present its position
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Illustrative photo of soldiers standing near the graves of fallen comrades at the Mount Herzl military cemetery, Jerusalem, ahead of Memorial Day, 2012. (photo credit: Gili Yaari/Flash90)
June 27, 2013, 11:00 am
Non-Jewish soldiers may be buried with Jewish comrades
MK Elazar Stern, a former IDF major-general and observant Jew, seeks an end to separate burial plots in military cemeteries
By Haviv Rettig Gur
IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz putting an Israeli flag on the grave of a soldier at Mount Herzl, April 10, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 12, 2013, 12:39 am
Gantz’s misplaced flag sparks controversy
Chief of staff skips grave of a non-Jewish soldier at annual ceremony on Mount Herzl; army says procedure will be changed
By Adiv Sterman
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