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Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks at a ceremony marking Memorial Day for Israel's Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terror, at "Yad LeBanim" in Jerusalem on May 3, 2022. Photo by Marc Israel Sellem/POOL.

Bennett: ‘We will strike not only terrorists but those who send them’

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Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett vowed on Wednesday to strike back not only at terrorists but at those who dispatch them, including those “a thousand kilometers east of here.” In a thinly veiled warning to...
Israeli President Isaac Herzog at the Western Wall speaking on the nation's Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism, May 3, 2022. Credit: Kobi Gideon, GPO.

Herzog: ‘No one asked fallen sons and daughters who was right-wing, who was left’

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Israel began marking the Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism on Tuesday evening when, at 8 p.m., a one-minute siren rang out throughout the country, causing all to stop in silence. The central ceremony...
An Israeli military cemetery. Credit: Israel Ministry of Defense.

Israel extends its embrace to bereaved families living abroad

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As Israel prepares to mark Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism on Tuesday evening, representatives from the Israeli Ministry of Defense’s Family and International Connections Unit—a part of the Department of...
Amit Agronov / IDF Spokesperson's Unit

Remembering Israel’s unknown fallen soldiers

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On the eve of Remembrance Day for Israel’s Fallen Soldiers, the country unites. All previous disagreements are cast aside as the nation stands together to cherish the memory of the brave men and women...
The "peace clock" shows religious images referencing Islam and Christianity but almost none specifically recalling the Jewish religion. Source: Facebook

‘Peace clock’: Israeli Defense Ministry gift angers bereaved families

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Dozens of Israeli families who lost loved ones to war and terror have expressed anger at this year’s gift from the country’s Defense Ministry ahead of Memorial Day—a “peace clock”— due to what they...
Participants at the Jewish Agency for Israel’s annual Yom Hazikaron ceremony, which also honored the sinking of the “Egoz” ship in 1961, as well as terror victims and those injured or killed in anti-Semitic attacks worldwide, April 13, 2021. Credit: The Jewish Agency for Israel.

Yom Hazikaron ceremony pays tribute to 60th year since sinking of ‘Egoz’

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The Jewish Agency for Israel’s annual Yom Hazikaron ceremony—Israel’s Memorial Day—held on Wednesday honored a tragic event in Jewish history, as well as fallen soldiers, terror victims and those injured or killed in anti-Semitic...

Remembering my brother keeps him alive

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For me, every day is Yom Hazikaron. Since I lost my older brother, Ezra, to a terrorist attack on Nov. 19, 2015, not a day has gone by that I do not think about...
The Military Rabbinate Choir sings a capella at a memorial service honoring fallen Israel Defense Forces soldiers and those from the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) units on Yom Hazikaron, April 13, 2021. Credit: Netzach Yehuda Association.

Memorial Day ceremony honors fallen Israeli soldiers from ‘haredi’ units

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A memorial service in honor of fallen Israel Defense Forces soldiers and those from the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) units, adapted for the religious community, was held at Jerusalem’s Shalva Hall on Tuesday night and broadcast online to...
A participant in the Memorial Day service, held in the Arara village in the Negev Desert, to commemorate fallen Arab and Druze Israel Defense Forces soldiers, April 13, 2021. Source: Twitter.

In first, Israel’s Arab sector holds Memorial Day service

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In a historic first, a Memorial Day ceremony was held on Tuesday to commemorate fallen Arab soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces. The event, which took place in the Arara village in the Negev Desert,...
People stand still next to the graves of fallen soldiers at the Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem as a two-minute siren sounds, marking Israel's Memorial Day, April 14, 2021. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Netanyahu on Memorial Day: ‘We mustn’t remain indifferent to threats of annihilation’

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Israelis across the country stood silent at 11 a.m. on Wednesday morning as sirens blared for two minutes to mark Israel’s Memorial Day. During the siren, fighter jets flew a special aerial salute over the...