President Isaac Herzog said at the memorial candle-lighting ceremony at the Western Wall Plaza that "when the fighting stops, silence appears. Like the sacred moment after the siren that pierces the skies. But in this silence there is no rest, it is a heavy silence, in which a void remains. I stand before you, the bereaved families, asking your permission: to enter, to sit with you. To ache together the void in which there is no air to breathe. To remember all your loved ones. In the last two and a half years, our country has been filled with their faces - on every street corner - innocent and beautiful faces smiling at us, and next to them a short line. A greeting of peace from heroes, like wills, at every corner. The fallen, a name and a picture."