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Memorial Day

Featured / Video of the Day

Ari Fuld on Yom HaZikaron

By Video of the Day

A video of Ari Fuld's Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day) speech in 2016 to students at Yeshivat Migdal HaTorah.

Israel

President Isaac Herzog’s Speech at the Opening Ceremony for Yom HaZikaron 5783/2023

By Isaac Herzog

"I appeal to you, my brothers and sisters, citizens of Israel, at this sacred moment, from here, the wall of longing and tears, from which the Divine Presence has never moved, and I ask us to mourn and grieve—together; may we let that feeling of longing envelop us—together."

Photo of the Day

Memorial Day Ceremony at the Kotel

By Photo of the Day

Photos from the military ceremony at the Kotel.

Left vs. Right / The Knesset / Judea & Samaria

Gush Etzion Mayor Invites All Politicians to Memorial Day Ceremony

By Jewish Press News Desk

Part of the delegitimization tactics of the anti-government anarchists has been to scare away elected officials from appearing at official ceremonies.

IDF & Security

24,213 Fallen Martyrs in Defense of Israel

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

This figure includes people like Joseph Trumpeldor and seven others who were killed in the Battle of Tel Hai in 1920 when Arabs came down from Lebanon and attacked the Jewish farms there.

Terrorism / Israel / News Briefs

Leo Dee to Recite Yizkor Prayer During Independence Day Ceremony

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Lucy Dee, 48, Maia, 20, and Rina, 15, were murdered in an April 7 terror attack on the Route 57 highway in the Jordan Valley.

Government / Left vs. Right

Likud Minister ‘Uninvited’ to Memorial Day Ceremonies

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Ministers and MKs are dropping out of the ceremonies so the anarchists don't have an excuse to disrupt the events.

Left vs. Right / The Knesset

Former Brigadier General MK Zvika Fogel Cancels Participation in Memorial Day Ceremony

By Jewish Press News Desk

Anarchists threatened to hold protests at the cemetery, so Fogel decided that he didn't want to see the fallen dishonored.

Government / Left vs. Right

Netanyahu Calls on Politicians and Citizens to Not Disrupt Remembrance Day Ceremonies

By Jewish Press News Desk

We all deserve to experience these days with the entire people of Israel standing united behind our heroes, without any argument.

Featured / First Person / Ari Fuld's Sword of Israel

Ari Fuld on Remembering Yehoshua Friedberg

By Ari Fuld HY"D

I don't want to go to a memorial service, I can't stand military funerals and I can't forget. I hate this! Too many thoughts...

IDF & Security / Diaspora

Israel Extends its Embrace to Bereaved Families Living Abroad

By Yaakov Lappin

“Just as memorial ceremonies can be held in Haifa or any other Israeli city, they will be in Miami and New York, too. These families gave their children, and we have to hug them wherever they live,” said Efrat Shefa Dor, manager of the Tiberias District for Bereaved Families.

Druze / Israeli Arabs

First and Only Memorial Day Ceremony held in Israeli-Arab Society

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

Four memorial candles were lit in memory of the Jewish, Muslim, Christian and Druze IDF casualties, and a fifth candle, a candle of hope for the unity of Israeli society.

Video of the Day

Ari Fuld on Yom HaZikaron

By Video of the Day

A video of Ari Fuld's Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day) speech in 2016 to students at Yeshivat Migdal HaTorah.

IDF & Security / Druze / Bedouin / Religion / Israeli Arabs

Religious Minorities Request Their Texts be Read at State Ceremonies for Fallen IDF Soldiers

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

The petitioners want more inclusiveness in the official ceremonies for religious-minorities who have also fallen in battle.

Israel

Israel Mourns 23,816 Fallen on Yom HaZikaron

By Yaakov Lappin

For the first time in Israel’s history, ceremonies and honor guards on Yom Hazikaron will be held at military cemeteries without visitors due to coronavirus restrictions on gatherings

Headline / First Person / Ari Fuld's Sword of Israel

Ari Fuld on Remembering Yehoshua Friedberg

By Ari Fuld HY"D

I don't want to go to a memorial service, I can't stand military funerals and I can't forget. I hate this! Too many thoughts...

Headline / IDF & Security / Judea & Samaria / Chessed and Tzedaka / Settlements

Ahead of Memorial Day, The Ari Fuld Project Donates Masks to Efrat's Counter-Terrorist Unit

By Jewish Press News Desk

Miriam Fuld was concerned for the welfare of the Efrat counter-terrorist unit, when they would go outside on emergency calls.

Featured / IDF & Security / Politics / Gaza / Hamas / Government

Leah Goldin on Memorial Day for IDF Soldiers Whose Burial Place is Unknown: My Son is Not MIA, Bring Him Home

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

Hamas, which rules Gaza, is believed to be holding Lt. Hadar Goldin's remains, as well as those of Oron Shaul, another IDF soldier killed during the 2014 Gaza war .

Featured / Israel / Religion / Judaism

The Grieving Habits of Israeli Jews

By JNi.Media

Four percent of Israeli Jews (almost two hundred and fifty thousand) say they visit the Western Wall on Tisha B'Av.

Headline / Israel / Video of the Day

Reut Salomon Speaks and Cries for Her Father on Yom Hazikaron

By Video of the Day

Reut Salomon, the daughter of Elad, spoke and cried at the Yom Hazikaron ceremony, talking about her father and that horrible night when her family was murdered by a terrorist.

Bulletproof

BULLETPROOF - Trump Meets Abbas

By Israel News Talk Radio

Trump, Abbas, and lots more on this show with Ari Fuld.

A Hebrew in the Heartland

A Hebrew in the Heartland - A Sovereign Nation in Our Land

By Israel News Talk Radio

Independence & establishing new Jewish towns in the Shomron and Judea.

The Danger Zone with Gadi Adelman

The Danger Zone - Memorial Day, Independence Day and Golda Meir

By Israel News Talk Radio

Gadi's personal story of Mt. Herzel where many of Israel's fallen and dignitaries are buried.

IDF & Security

Young Widow: “I Thought After a Year I Would Know How to Cope”

By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency

Staff Sgt. Tuvia Yanai Weissman, was awarded a posthumous medal of bravery in September 2016 for his courage in confronting two terrorists while unarmed.

Featured / IDF & Security / Politics / History / Religious & Secular in Israel

Likud Haredim to Commemorate Fallen Haredi Soldiers

By JNi.Media

Last year, the ceremony was interrupted by Haredi extremists who attempted to prevent it from taking place and succeeded in chasing away many participants.

IDF & Security

Yom Hazikaron: How Sara Omer and Her Three Children Rebuilt Their Lives...

By Ken Stephens

Sara’s world was nearly destroyed in 2008, when her husband Reuven was killed during an IDF training exercise while doing reserve duty.

Featured / Interviews and Profiles / From the Paper

Israel Memorial Day: The Yeshiva That Pays The Price

By Yossi Baumol

More and more we are becoming aware of the fact that there is a gaping hole in our lives – the ability to connect to God with our emotions, something connected to the idea of prophecy.

Featured / Police and Crime / The Temple Mount / Holocaust

Teens Arrested for Protesting Yom HaShoah Temple Mount Closure

By JNi.Media

The detective did not wear badges and refused to identify themselves.

Featured / US / Politics / History / Media / Holocaust / Assimilation

Trump on Eve of Memorial Day: Holocaust 'Darkest Chapter of Human History'

By JNi.Media

'Six million Jews, two-thirds of the Jews in Europe, murdered by the Nazi genocide. They were murdered by an evil that words cannot describe, and that the human heart cannot bear.'

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs

3 Doctors and a Nurse Arrested for Hizmeh Terror Bombing

By Jewish Press News Desk

Their attack seriously wounded an IDF officer on the eve of Israel's Memorial Day.

First Person

Remembering Yehoshua Friedberg HY"D

By Ari Fuld HY"D

I don't want to go to a memorial service, I can't stand military funerals and I can't forget. I hate this! Too many thoughts...

Photo of the Day

We Remember - Yom Hazikaron 2016

By Photo of the Day

Photos by: Yossi Zamir/Flash90, Gershon Elinson/Flash90, Miriam Alster/Flash90, Hadas Parush/Flash90, Nati Shohat/Flash90

IDF & Security / News Briefs

Fallen ‘Lone Soldiers’ Leave a Family and Country in Mourning

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Ten years after the death of her son Michael, an American-born IDF soldier who fell in battle, Harriet Levin is still learning to cope.

IDF & Security / News Briefs

Israel Mourns its Fallen Soldiers and Terror Victims

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The national Memorial Day for Israel’s fallen commenced on Tuesday at 8 p.m. with a nationwide minute of silence, as sirens throughout the country marked the solemn moment and flags were lowered to half mast.

IDF & Security / News Briefs

Terror Victim To Receive Posthumous Military Decoration

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Weissman was a 21-year-old IDF soldier stabbed to death in front of his wife and child in a supermarket in the Binyamin region on February 18.

IDF & Security / Politics / Antisemitism / News Briefs

Offspring of Wehrmacht Soldiers Serving in IDF

By JNi.Media

"Every time I arrive in my uniform, my 82-year-old grandfather starts crying."

Video of the Day

Time-lapse Movie of One World Trade Center Construction

By Video of the Day

In recognition of the opening of One World Observatory in New York City, EarthCam released a special edition of their One World Trade Center video. It shows the completion of construction from October 2004 to Memorial Day 2015. Hundreds of thousands of high definition images were captured over the past 11 years and hand-edited for […]

Israel / Jewish / News Briefs

Chareidi Initiative United Moment of Silence with Silent Prayer

By Jewish Press Staff

A new Chareidi initiative has been launched for Yom HaZikaron, called "Sheket, Zochrim" or "Be Silent, We are Remembering".

Photo of the Day

A Private Memorial Day

By Photo of the Day

An Israeli woman visits a relative's grave on Mount Herzl on Tuesday, a few hours before Memorial Day begins, at which point the military cemetery will be full of family and friends of the deceased.

Emes Ve-Emunah

Today is Memorial Day

By Harry Maryles

Eisenhower forced the residents of a nearby town to go to one of the liberated camps to see what their leaders had done.

Terrorism / News Briefs

Terror Victim Heckles Netanyahu at Yom HaZikaron Ceremony

By Avi Tuchmayer

Netanyahu admitted the decision to release Arab murderers was 'too tough to bear', but failed to acknowledge that the moved failed

Photo of the Day

Yom HaZikaron in Bnei Brak

By Jewish Press Staff

On Sunday night, Haredi Rabbis and Jews from Bnei Brak took part in a Yom HaZikaron (Memorial Day) ceremony for fallen soldiers.

News Briefs

Netanyahu: Fallen Soldiers 'Heroes'

By Avi Tuchmayer

Prime Minister Netanyahu has praised the 23,169 IDF soldiers who have died in Israel’s wars. “You are our heroes,” said Netanyahu in his address to the opening ceremony at tonight’s Yom HaZikaron (Memorial Day) ceremony. The prime minister. who lost his brother Yoni Netanyahu during the Entebbe rescue mission in July, 1976, then paraphrased the […]

IDF & Security / News Briefs

Suspicious Family Illegally Opens Mt. Herzl Grave - Finds It Empty

By Shalom Bear

For 40 years, the family of Tzion Tayib have been fighting for proof their son's body was found and buried in the Har Herzl military cemetery - it wasn't.

A Soldier's Mother

For These We Weep

By Paula Stern

I have been searching for the answer to this question...who did they kill...those 104 we are about to release? I know of a mother and her three children; I know of a grandfather stabbed in the back. I don't know all the names but it is for these we weep today - once killed by […]

Jewish / NY / Politics / News Briefs / Religion

Weiner Misses Queens Memorial Day Parade to Speak at Church

By Jewish Press News Desk

New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner passed up the annual Memorial Day parade in his former Queens district on Sunday in order to speak at a half-empty church. “I was, like, ‘Where’s Weiner?!’” Forest Hills resident Frankie Esposito told the New York Post.  “I figured he’d come out to see his constituents. I don’t […]

US / News Briefs / Religion

Texas Official Cites Jewish Chaplain’s WW II Dedication

By Jewish Press News Desk

A Texas state official spoke at a Memorial Day service and quoted a Jewish chaplain’s dedication of a temporary cemetery on Iwo Jima in World War II. Jerry Patterson, the state’s Land Commissioner and candidate for Lieutenant Governor, said that whenever he speaks at a Memorial Day service, he quotes Lt. Roland B Gittlesohn, a […]

Op-Eds

As Israelis Mourn the Dead, Jordanians Glorify Killer

By Alan M. Dershowitz

The very word "hero" was used by the Jordanian justice minister in joining the chorus calling for the release of a convicted terrorist.

Shiloh Musings

The Only Truth

By Batya Medad

It's important to realize the cost of something and that includes the State of Israel.

A Soldier's Mother

A Day of Agony

By Paula R. Stern

Memorial Day in Israel is not a day of picnics and sales or barbecues and fun. It is agony. It is pain.

Daniel Greenfield

Counting and Remembering the 'Dust of Jacob'

By Daniel Greenfield

The dust is the memory of ages and the children shall always return to the dust of their ancestors.

Op-Eds

Amidst the Chaos, the IDF Preserves Israel's Independence

By Yaakov Lappin

With Israel's military is at its strongest, the country is capable of dealing with its highly chaotic and dangerous environment.

Terrorism / US / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Islamists / Jerusalem

Pearl’s Father: Execution Caused ‘Revolution’ against Barbarism

By Jewish Press News Desk

Prof. Judea Pearl said at Israel’s Remembrance Day for Fallen Soldiers in Jerusalem Sunday night that the terrorists’’ brutal execution of his son Daniel “caused a revolution in our society’s struggle against barbarism.” He added, “The notion of absolute good and bad was almost erased, but was reborn with the murder of Daniel in Pakistan.” […]

IDF & Security / News Briefs

Sharansky Says Yoni Netanyahu Was an Inspiration while in Jail

By Jewish Press News Desk

Yoni Netanyahu, the brother of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu who was killed in the Entebbe rescue, was an inspiration to Natan Sharansky while imprisoned in a Soviet jail, the former Refusenik said Sunday. Speaking to 5,000 Masa Israel Journey participants at a Remembrance Day for Fallen Soldiers ceremony, Sharansky said, “While in the Soviet prison, […]

This Ongoing War

The Silence on Israel's Memorial Day

By Frimet and Arnold Roth

When I stand silently with my neighbors while the tzefira, the siren, is sounding its awful wail, I am thinking of my daughter.

IDF & Security / News Briefs

‘Israel Wants Peace, Enemies Want War,’ Says Netanyahu

By Jewish Press News Desk

”From the moment the state was established, it has not ceased to wish for peace with its neighbors and to the same degree, its enemies have not ceased from their aspiration to wipe it off the face of the earth” Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Sunday afternoon as Israel prepares to observe Remembrance Day for […]

Terrorism / Israel / US / News Briefs

Daniel Pearl’s Father to Light Day Memorial Flame

By Jewish Press News Desk

The father of the late Jewish journalist Daniel Pearl will light one the memorial flames at the Memorial Day Ceremony in Jerusalem, the day before Independence Day. Pearl was kidnapped and brutally murdered in Pakistan while researching a story on Islamic radicals for The Wall Street Journal. Nine days after his abduction, Pearl was cruelly […]

IDF & Security / News Briefs

The IDF Honors 22,993 Fallen Soldiers

By Jewish Press News Desk

In a letter to IDF soldiers and commanders, the Chief of the General Staff Lt. Gen. Gantz wrote, "Another year passed, another year of standing guard, of relentless, exuberant, hard work ensuring the security of Israeli citizens. A year passed and again we stand at Memorial Day ceremonies, by graves of fallen brothers, facing monuments with a endless and unfathomable rows of names of the fallen."

The Muqata

Alternative Reality - Destabilizing Morality on Memorial Day

By Jameel@Muqata

There exists a new type of Israeli, who sees a moral equivalence between Israel's fallen, and those of the enemy.

Israel / News Briefs

Intoxication Tests, Traffic Control, Part of Israeli Police Preparations for 64th Independence Day

By Tibbi Singer

Tel Aviv District Police has completed its preparations for Memorial Day and the 64th Independence Day of the State of Israel. County units will operate with reinforcements of Police, Border Guard officers and Civil Defense volunteers, increasing normal security arrangements, easing traffic flow and preventing criminal activity.

IDF & Security / News Briefs

Vandals Attack Historic Ammunition Hill

By Malkah Fleisher

Jerusalem’s Ammunition Hill museum and memorial were vandalized Sunday night with anti-Zionist slogans, two days before Israel’s Memorial Day.

Serials

Getzlight – Chapter II

By Ruchama Feuerman

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