The photos include scenes of memorial services, work projects, families, artifacts, and more from the early years of the State of Israel.
“The ‘March of the Living’ connects between those who learned about the Holocaust firsthand and those who did not."
In honor of Israel's 72nd Independence Day, Efrat residents Rabbi Shlomo Katz and Moshe Kesselman released a song.
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
Miriam Fuld was concerned for the welfare of the Efrat counter-terrorist unit, when they would go outside on emergency calls.
Last night I was in the village of my birth / In the landscape that is dear to my heart in its radiance / In the well of my childhood a reflection still shimmers / My father’s house still stands.
Video of Ari talking about his army experience and the message of Yom HaZikaron to students of Migdal HaTorah, on Israel's Memorial Day. 2016.
Yom Hazikaron, Israel's Memorial Day for the Fallen Soldiers of Israel and Victims of Terrorism, has begun in Israel, on Sunday night.
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.
Israel – faults and all – is our protector, our refuge, our collective dream and our national soul.
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.'
By JNi.Media
Hollywood mogul Haim Saban announced he is donating $1 million to the effort.
By JNi.Media
'To our dismay, the number of survivors who can share their story is rapidly declining,' said Education Minister Naftali Bennett. 'We must find new ways to remember.'
By JNi.Media
'I never wished to return to that place of our degradation and annihilation, but to return in the company of our noblest, bravest of the brave – our IDF soldiers, makes my spirit soar with pride and hope.'
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.
By JNi.Media
Key is often asked why he didn't speak any German, considering his Austrian roots, and his response is: “The simple answer is my mother refused to teach me. She did not want to reflect on her history.”
By JNi.Media
Was the defense minister calling on his officer to rebel against the political class? Probably not, although he sounded dangerously close to saying just that.
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.
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.
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.
By JNi.Media
The open rebuke was a deadly jibe at Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon, who defended and supported Golan's speech and the sentiments he noted.
By dvora
Following is the address by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the eve (4 May) of Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day.
When Pnina Katsir turned 80, she finally told her daughter a secret she had kept for decades: she was a survivor of the Holocaust.
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It is a very serious matter that police do not permit Jews to protest the police own racist actions."
Rivlin addressed the Holocaust survivors attending the ceremony, asking for their help in extracting the meaning of the tragedy and lessons to be learned.
Earlier in the day, Netanyahu toured the southern area of the Gazan border accompanied by Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Col. Gadi Eizenkot, inspecting the Hamas tunnel uncovered by IDF forces several weeks ago.
MK Isaac Herzog, head of Israel’s Labour Party and Opposition leader said that he is “considering suspending relations” with British Labour.
Israel's Memorial Day is on April 22, 2015 this year.
The name of the Jerusalem teenager burned to death by three Jews has been added to the Victims of Terror Memorial.
A one-minute siren at 8 p.m. inaugurates the day of sadness, followed by the happiness of Yom Ha'Atzmaut.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara visited on Saturday night the grave of Yoni Netanyahu, the leader and lone IDF casualty in the rescue mission at Entebbe in 1976. They visited the grave at the Mt. Herzl Cemetery at night instead of on Remembrance Day for the Fallen of Israel's Wars this week […]
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 […]
By OneFamily
Today, with 37 professionals and nearly 750 volunteers working from four centers around Israel, OneFamily operates in close cooperation with representatives of government, municipal, and community agencies to assure that every terror victim in need of support is known to the organization.