Members of Knesset and hundreds of youth associated with the Bayit Yehudi (Jewish Home)-New National Religious Party are expected to join the family of abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit at their protest tent near the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem Monday evening, the start of the Tisha B'Av fast, which commemorates the destruction of the Temples in Jerusalem, among other calamities suffered by the Jewish people.
The evening service is scheduled for 8:15, including the reading of the Book of Eicha (Lamentations), followed by learning appropriate for the day.