The Women of the Wall requested that a woman have a prominent role in next week's Remembrance Day ceremony, in a letter sent to Defense Minister Israel Katz on Monday.
The letter deplored that women had never had a significant role in the ceremony at the Western Wall, other than lighting the ceremonial torch.
"The entire ceremony is held exclusively for the male sex," the letter said. "Mothers, wives, daughters, sisters, friends, grandmothers of the fallen in Israeli wars and victims of hostilities – all are silenced and disappear from the State of Israel's National Remembrance Day ceremony."
The letter described the absence of women as an "intolerable distortion that perpetuates inequality and requires correction at its very foundation." It also mentioned the substantial heroic contributions of women to the military since the start of Operation Iron Swords.
Knesset grants Chief Rabbinate authority over Western Wall
In February, the Knesset plenum passed a preliminary reading of a controversial bill that seeks to grant the Chief Rabbinate authority to determine prayer arrangements at the Western Wall.
Progressive Jewish groups, including Women of the Wall, have strongly condemned the bill, warning that it would significantly undermine religious pluralism and freedom of worship at the holy site.
Keshet Neev contributed to this report.