A day after police chief Roni Alsheikh replied to Army Radio host Razi Barkai, who recently likened the bereaved parents of slain IDF soldiers to the families of terrorists, Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon did the same on Tuesday.
Speaking to a gathering of bereaved families in Eilat, Ya'alon said, "It was important to me to come here tonight to say a few words. Even from a sense of moral obligation, as someone who served for many years in the army and lost friends and subordinates and commanders and met many of you, the families, during those difficult moments when you became bereaved families.”
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