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Israeli President Isaac Herzog delivers an address at Yad Vashem on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jerusalem, April 17, 2023. Credit: Kobi Gideon/Government Press Office.

Holocaust remembrance and inexcusable hyperbole

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During his Holocaust Remembrance Day speech on Monday night at Yad Vashem, Israeli President Isaac Herzog admonished the public never to invoke the genocide of the Jews in any context other than the Shoah itself. This was...
MK Boaz Bismuth attends a Knesset Arrangements Committee meeting, Dec. 13, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Reform opponents disrupt Likud MK speech during Holocaust Remembrance Day

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Anti-judicial reform protesters interrupted member of Knesset member Boaz Bismuth of the Likud Party as he spoke at a Holocaust memorial service at a Tel Aviv synagogue on Monday evening. Several protesters shouted “Shame” at...
An El Al airliner takes off from Ben-Gurion Airport. Oct. 25, 2021. Photo by Yossi Aloni/Flash90.

El Al captain tells passengers: ‘Holocausts can happen in dictatorships’

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The captain of an El Al flight from Tel Aviv to New York on Tuesday was recorded telling passengers in an announcement that “things like Holocausts are potentially to be occurring in dictatorships, and we are...
The seven Holocaust survivors who attended the 2022 International March of the Living, April 28, 2022. Photo by Yossi Zeliger.

International March of the Living: Watch

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Thousands of participants from across the globe were set on Tuesday to walk down a 3-kilometer path leading from Auschwitz to Birkenau on Holocaust Remembrance Day—Yom Hashoah—as part of the International March of the Living. Since...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, as Israel marks the country's annual Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 17, 2023. Photo by Erik Marmor/Flash90.

‘You chose life. You believed in good. You helped others,’ Netanyahu tells survivors

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A Hungarian Jew, whose whole family was killed in the Holocaust, was sent to various concentration camps. At Mauthausen in Austria, an SS officer would wake him and other prisoners up every day. “‘You...
Israeli President Isaac Herzog speaks during a ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, as Israel marks the country's annual Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 17, 2023. Photo by Erik Marmor/Flash90.

Herzog urges Israelis to set disputes aside in ‘sacred days’ honoring survivors

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“I appeal to you, citizens of Israel, with a simple prayer: Let us leave these sacred days, which begin tonight and end on Independence Day, above all dispute,” said Israeli President Isaac Herzog. “Let...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives in Israel on Jan. 30, 2023. Credit: David Azagury/U.S. Embassy in Israel.

White House, State Department release statements ahead of Yom Hashoah

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Both U.S. President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken released statements this week marking days of remembrance of Holocaust victims. “During Yom Hashoah and throughout these days of remembrance, we mourn the 6...
Israelis wave flags at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on the eve of Jerusalem Day, May 9, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Nearly half of the world’s Jews live in Israel

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At the start of 2022, there were a total of 15.3 million Jews in the world, 7 million of whom, roughly 46% of all Jews worldwide, resided in Israel, Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics...
Lithuanians massacre Jews at the Lietūkis garage during the Kaunas pogrom, June 27, 1941. Credit: Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum.

Holocaust,Shoah,Yom Hashoah,World War II,Holocaust Remembrance Day

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Holocaust distortion and trivialization and banalization are on the rise around the globe, even as outright denial is relegated to the fringes of society, the head of Yad Vashem says. The remarks come at a...
A survivor participates in the annual Holocaust Remembrance ceremony at the Cameri Theater in Tel Aviv, April 7, 2021. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Nearly 150,000 Shoah survivors live in Israel

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The number of Holocaust survivors living in Israel stands at nearly 150,000, according to statistics published on Sunday by the Holocaust Survivors’ Rights Authority ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day. The 147,199 Holocaust survivors residing in the...