This year’s ceremony marks 75th anniversary of Kfar Etzion battle. The ceremony held each year honors those who fell in Israeli military conflicts, as well as in terror and antisemitic attacks.
Israel Police highlighted three fallen officers as part of the "My Hero" project on Remembrance Day.
The ceremony was opened by Rabbi Leo Dee, who has lost his wife Lucy and his two daughters Maia and Rina in a brutal shooting attack this past Passover.
The 1963 Remembrance Day law details prohibitions and procedures for the honoring of the day and Israel's fallen security personnel and victims of terrorism.
The Jerusalem Post interviews Miri Menachem, head of the Israeli Defense Ministry's special unit serving almost 3,000 families in the Diaspora.
Israelis who had come to the cemetery for Remembrance Day sang happy birthday and Mazel Tov to Tzur Yaniv.
Despite some disturbance by a group of hecklers who were kept away by police officers, the ceremony proceeded without notable incidents.
Protesters shouted "shame" and "go home" and loudly sang the anthem at ceremonies across the country.
It allows the public to easily locate and navigate to specific grave sites in one of Israel's military cemeteries, some of which cover huge areas and are difficult to navigate.
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