Yesterday marked Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah). It is a somber day, marked by the blare of sirens across the land at 10am. Everything literally grinds to a halt for 2 minutes. Work and school activities cease, pedestrians stop in their tracks, and traffic stops on the streets and highways of Israel as Jews …
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One of the most impacting stops we make on our Israel tours is at a home for Holocaust survivors. Along with that, a stroll through Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust Museum and Remembrance Center, leaves each person very contemplative of the atrocities endured by the Jewish people during the Holocaust. It is very sobering to consider …
Yesterday we mentioned that the international community commemorates Holocaust Remembrance Day in January, though it is commemorated today in Israel. Why is that? Why does Israel celebrate Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), Yom HaZikaron (Memorial Day) and Yom HaAtzmaut (Independence Day) almost back-to-back (within an 8 day span)? Though we tend to focus more on …
While the international community commemorates Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27 (the day of liberation from death camps), Israel remembers the lost victims of the Holocaust on Yom HaShoah, which tonight at sundown. It is a very solemn day, and one in which Israelis stop to reflect on that horrible event and mourn the loss …
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