Member of Knesset Bezalel Smotrich said, Tuesday, "Memorial Day is not a private mourning day for bereaved families. Is a state day whose national character must not be harmed, even by bereaved families."
Responding to the Supreme Court's ruling allowing the entry of Palestinian Authority residents to pre-Six Day War Israel for a joint memorial ceremony, Smotrich continued, "There are 364 days a year to experience the private mourning in their own way Not on this holy day. The Supreme Court ruling is yet another phase in its ongoing erosion of our national collective and its conversion to an alienated universal individualism."