Israeli singers reject Miri Regev's request to participate in torch ceremony

Jerusalem Post - 21/04
However, released hostage Eli Sharabi will be one of the ceremony's torchbearers • MK Gilad Kariv criticizes Regev's choice in choosing Ben Shapiro as a torchbearer.

Singers Yardena Arazi and Boaz Sharabi declined Transportation Minister Miri Regev's request to participate I the torch-bearing event at the country's Independence Day ceremony at Mount Herzl.

Sharabi's representative said that he would not able to participate was due to time constraints and not for political reasons.

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