Captives’ families ask for loved ones’ coffins to lie in state outside Knesset: Report

The families of a number of Israeli captives have signed onto a letter to Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana requesting that the coffins of their loved ones be able to lie in state outside the Knesset after they return, according to The Times of Israel newspaper. The report said the letter, penned by Meirav Cohen, a member of the Knesset with the Yesh Atid party, says that those who “paid with their lives because the country could not protect them” are “worthy of a final honour” that would allow the public to come and pay their respects after their bodies are returned to Israel.