Haim Yelin, a former member of the Knesset, announced that he will spend the eve of the holiday in the Kidnapped Square alongside hundreds of community members. "I felt that I could not be with the family this year, and that I must support the families of the kidnapped," he said in an interview with 103FM.
Yelin continued and said: "I love this holiday, on this holiday Moshe, one leader, brought us out of slavery to freedom - he traveled with us for 40 years in the desert to unite the people" He also said emphatically that "we must very quickly return to this place, the place of Shiva in October. There are brutal murderers who must simply be defeated, there is no other way, otherwise we leave a legacy here for future generations - a legacy of genocide," he added. "We are there, we are in mourning, unable to rise. All the smiles, inside there is a deep hole that we cannot close. If someone is afraid of the truth then why should he do what needs to be done?"