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By Yossi Katz
Army cemeteries are some of the most fashionable cultural landscapes of Israel. The adjustments of their visual appeal mostly replicate the most social techniques in Israeli society. until eventually the tip of the Nineteen Seventies, army tombstones and their atmosphere have been uniform and equivalent. simply because the Eighties, households of the fallen squaddies began to upload own expressions. The ebook sheds mild on some of the most delicate matters in Israeli society.
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This will be doable only if concentrated military cemeteries will exist in Israel. b. In order to help the Army carry out a respectable military burial special arrangements in the cemeteries are needed such as: entry access for cargo vehicles sometimes bearing howitzers, etc. This is something that can be arranged only in military cemeteries. c. With regards to burial expenses arranging the tombstone in the civilian cemeteries, this is generally impractical and in the event that it is feasible is usually prohibitively expensive.
In an investigative report conducted by D. Shalit and that was published in Ha’aretz supplement at the beginning of July 1993 (above, footnote 21), Shalit referred to complaints voiced by the parents to the effect that the council represented a specific population group typified by the spirit of 1948, and that the vast majority of the members were men of the Ashkenazi establishment, aged 60-70, parents to the dead from the previous wars, from the 1948 war till the Yom Kippur war. In their opinion, there was no representation for parents aged 45-50, whose children were killed in recent years.
As may be recalled, even in 1993 the deputy director general of the Defense Ministry argued that the criteria employed by the minister in the selection of council members or their replacement by others were unknown. ” On this see his comments in the Ha’aretz Supplement (above, footnote 21). It is not clear what was the basis for his determination that the council members represented the public, and in general whether it was possible to employ terms such as representation in the context of bereavement and the family of bereavement.