“that this observance during the month of Nissan is not acceptable. The Israeli govt. declared it for that date, to fit their agenda — that it would always fall during the week before Israel independence day.”
The first part is nonsense the second is correct.
A big chunk of klal yisroel spends 27 nissan scratching their faces and avoiding music in mourning over R’ Akiva’s Talmidim. but to hear some speeches and a siren, …. no its nissan No mourning!
The second part is the real reason
dovid
“No, I’m making an analogy by using another example of abandoning halachah for the sake of “achdus with our fellow Jews “.”
Ummm, how is yom hashoa, “abandoning halacha” ?