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| By: israelinsider staff |
| Published: April 23, 2007 |
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Currently there is no memorial monument in Samaria to commemorate the area's 14 soldiers and 44 other victims of terror or battle, despite a request by the Samarian Regional Council.
The Defense Ministry's Commemoration Committee rejected a request by the council this month to fund a memorial park and monument in honor of the 58 fallen members of its community.
According to the rejection letter, a 1998 law prohibits the funding of memorial projects in Judea and Samaria. The letter, however, mentioned that there was a possibility that the Commemoration Committee could finance a memorial project in another part of Israel.
Currently, there are no public memorial monuments for fallen soldiers in all of the West Bank, despite the approximately 80 soldiers from region killed since 1982, according to Yishai Hollender, spokesman for the Council of Jewish Communities of Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip.
"It's scandalous to differentiate between one person's blood and another," said MK Uri Ariel (National Union) Sunday. The MK is planning to change the current situation through a bill, which would allow memorials for soldiers to be built near their homes.
"Just as the Defense Ministry knows how to draft settlers into the army, so it should know how to commemorate them after they have been killed," Ariel stated.
Samarian Regional Council spokeswoman Ahuva Shilo noted, however, that one memorial for fallen soldiers does exist in the Jordan Valley, and was financed by the government in the late 1970s. |
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