Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and opposition leaders Yair Lapíd and Benny Gantz urged Israelis in an unusual statement not to politicize the Yom Hazikaron commemoration next week and to set aside at least for to date the existing dissatisfaction with judicial reform. The call came amid fears the solemn day would be marred by incidents with political overtones.

MK Simcha Rothman, one of the architects of judicial reform, found himself surrounded and trapped by anti-government protesters while at the Jerusalem International Convention Center for the World Zionist Congress. Israeli police had to intervene and Rothman left through a back door after about 30 minutes.

A total of 59 Israel Defense Forces soldiers have been killed in service over the past year, the Defense Ministry said, on the eve of the Yom Hazikaron commemoration. According to agency data, this brings to 24,213 the death toll during his service since the year 1860.

Writer and composer Yehonatan Geffen was buried in a cemetery in the town of Nahalal in northern Israel. Among the personalities who attended the funeral were singer David Broza, former president Reuven Rivlin, opposition leader Lapid and former minister Ayelet Shaked.

A Paris court sentenced Lebanese-Canadian Hassan Diab to life imprisonment in absentia for the 1980 bombing of a synagogue in the French capital that left four dead and 46 injured. Diab is currently working as an academic in Canada and has already been the subject of an extradition process for the past decade, after which he was released after failing to conclusively prove his criminal responsibility at that time. .

Germany announced that it had created an international commission of experts to review the events surrounding the 1972 Palestinian bombing during the Munich Olympics in which 11 Israelis were killed, in order to investigate the failures of the German government. The findings and conclusions reached by the commission will be fully documented in full transparency for public access.

Short story selection and screenplay: Germán Gómez

Voice over and production: David Crespo Neira