President Isaac Herzog will host the state memorial ceremony tomorrow afternoon honoring the late Presidents Yitzhak Navon and Prime Ministers Levi Eshkol. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not attend; Minister Amichai Eliyahu will represent the government.
President Isaac Herzog will host the state memorial ceremony for deceased presidents and prime ministers tomorrow afternoon. This year, the ceremony will honor Yitzhak Navon, Israel's fifth president, and Levi Eshkol, the third prime minister. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not attend; Minister Amichai Eliyahu will represent the government.
The absence echoes a similar situation last month, when Netanyahu missed the state memorial for Operation Protective Edge, as The Zioneer reported on June 25. At the time, the Prime Minister's Office cited a scheduling conflict with the IDF officer course graduation.
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