Ministers, politicians, religious and military officials join bereaved families in Jerusalem to remember ultra-Orthodox soldiers of the IDF's Haredi battalions

UTJ and Shas lawmakers who did not serve in IDF back out of events, as does Likud Minister Galit Distel Atbaryan, who has been criticized for recent incendiary comments

Participants in local authorities' education conference walk out as Haim Biton claims high Haredi birth rate defeated alleged efforts to suppress community