Minister Ofir Akunis will represent the government at the state ceremony on Mount Herzl in memory of Yitzhak Rabin. Akunis will participate in place of Netanyahu, who decided to absent himself from the event this year as well

Netanyahu's office informed the organizers of the state memorial for the late Yitzhak Rabin, that the Prime Minister will not attend the ceremony. Labor Party Chairman Merav Michaeli commented on the report and added: "It will be more respectable without him."