(haipo) - The judges of the Supreme Court ruled this morning (Sun. 1/12/24) that the navigator Major Assaf Dagan will be buried in a full military burial, but in a civilian cemetery, a compromise proposal to which the incoming Defense Minister Israel Katz also agreed .
◄ The statement of the late Dagan's family after the decision of the Supreme Court • Watch
His family accepted the compromise without any choice, while expressing hope that the court and the Minister of Defense would continue their struggle, and reach its conclusion, so that the late Asaf would be buried in a military cemetery after all, as the family had hoped from the beginning.
The family should receive the full rights of a war veteran at the Ministry of Defense. This is a precedent that threatens similar future cases.
We are going through a very difficult time. Tehal as a symbol for us. An example of being surprised, every child in Israel makes great efforts to serve in the army. Gives the maximum in service, even beyond reserve service. I am very disappointed. Assaf was called to the reserves. Despite his health, suffering from rheumatism, he organized himself and went to the base. I would like to point out that as soon as he leaves his house, he is insured like any volunteer. That is why he is known as a reservist. Therefore he must receive all the rights as a reservist to be buried in a military cemetery with his rights. Shame and disgrace that the High Court only established a military ceremony in a non-military cemetery. The army and all of us will only lose!
There is no proof that he was called to the reserves, (except according to the family) if there was one, and there were records accordingly, he would have been buried in a military plot with all the conditions.
It turns out that this is a military burial and not a military funeral. Apart from the burial, the family has to take care of everything. And it will not count in the number of IDF martyrs. In short, the army makes fun of the family
First - who is "Lord of hosts"? who hides as the last of the cowards? Second, the army disappoints me day by day. A 71-year-old archaeologist is a soldier in retrospect, while the IDF does not recognize a navigator who suffered from trauma as an IDF spaceman? The abductees who escaped from the tunnels and were killed by IDF fire - are they not recognized as martyrs? why? Terrible loss of values!
The High Court must not be allowed to control every area of our lives
Enough of the High Court's dictatorship
It should have gone up to the Foreign and Security Committee of the Knesset and the Minister of Security and closed there.
Without the High Court it is an absolute dictatorship
False title.
In addition, the family clearly did not get what they wanted