Outgoing Education Minister and Co-chairman of the New Right party, Naftali Bennett discussed the focus of some on controversial events that are taking place on Memorial day (Wednesday), saying:
" Memorial Day is a sacred and unifying day for an overwhelming majority of the people of Israel ... It is not right to focus the day and the public attention on the extreme events of an alternative Palestinian ceremony or the chase after a single ultra-Orthodox extremist that does not stand for the siren."