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Obituaries / Holocaust

Yad Vashem Mourns the Passing of Partisan Baruch Shub

By Jewish Press News Desk

"Baruch was a partisan and a fighter who, throughout his life, embodied the survivors' rebirth and commitment to building a new life for himself, his family, his nation, and his country."

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

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 .

Israel / Holocaust

'They Say There Is a Land' - Longing for Eretz Israel during the Holocaust

By JNi.Media

The new Yad Vashem exhibition tells how Jews yearned for Eretz Israel during and immediately following the Shoah in the years 1933-1948.

Headline / Jewish / US / Politics / Government / Jerusalem / On Campus / Education

Trump's Inauguration Rabbi to Light Israel's Independence Day Torch

By JNi.Media

In 2007 and 2008 Newsweek named Rabbi Hier the most influential rabbi in America.

News Briefs / Europe / Media / Jerusalem / Holocaust

Yad Vashem Online Presents Touching 'Last Letters From the Holocaust'

By JNi.Media

There are thousands of personal letters in the Yad Vashem Archives, which were sent by Jews – adults and children – to their relatives and friends from their homes, the ghettos and the camps.

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Police and Crime / News Briefs / Jerusalem

Terror Victims Named

By Jewish Press News Desk

Levana Malichi of Jerusalem and Police Officer Yosef Kirma.

Government / News Briefs / Jerusalem / Obituaries

Eulogies by Shimon Peres' Three Children

By Jewish Press Staff

I remember him at the table of a French restaurant, when he whispered in my ear, it’s tastes good, but nothing compares to your mother’s salad. To him, Israel’s cucumbers and tomatoes were the finest of delicacies.

Photo of the Day

Practice, Practice, Practice

By Photo of the Day

Rehearsal sessions ahead of Israel's 68th Independence Day ceremony, which will be held on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem next week.

Government / News Briefs / Jerusalem / The Temple Mount / Judaism

Hotovely Says Foreign Dignitaries Must Visit Western Wall

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

"Including the Kotel along with Yad VaShem and Mt. Herzl changes Zionism from 100 years to 3,000 years."

Photo of the Day

Operation Protective Edge Remembrance Day

By Photo of the Day

Adi Kaplan, widow of Captain Zvi (Zvika) Kaplan lit a torch during a ceremony marking one year since Operation Protective Edge at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on July 6, 2015. Prime Minister Netanyahu laid a wreath of flowers at the ceremony honoring our heroes killed in battle against Israel's enemies in Gaza

Israel / News Briefs

Israel's Memorial Day

By Jewish Press News Desk

Israel commemorated its Memorial Day on Wednesday...

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.

Op-Eds

The Papal Visit: Heavy On Hoopla, Short On Substance

By Rabbi Steven Pruzansky

There is a certain unwordliness to the pope’s call for a two-state solution, an obliviousness to the reality on the ground.

Op-Eds

The Palestinians, the Pope and Peace

By Jonathan S. Tobin

Arab anger over the Pope's visit to Mt. Herzl reveals their problem is the existence of a Jewish State.

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 […]

IDF & Security

1 Dead, Several Injured in Stage Collapse at Har Herzl, Jerusalem

By Malkah Fleisher

At least one person has been reported killed and several injured in the collapse of lighting for a stage being assembled at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem for Rememberance Day ceremonies.

Serials

Getzlight – Chapter II

By Ruchama Feuerman

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