Holocaust Remembrance Day

Independence Day: 78+1 reasons I love Israel - opinion

For her 22nd straight year, Barbara Sofer presents her list of reasons she loves living here. In no particular order...

|ByBARBARA SOFER
IRON BEAM: Part of the laser anti-missile interception system, seen in Sept.
An IDF soldier stands in silence during a siren honoring the millions of Jewish lives lost in the Holocaust, in Tel Aviv, April 14, 2026

A light unto the enemies: Three dangerous lessons from the Holocaust - opinion

Student delegations to Poland, ceremonies, museums, and educational programs – all of these are essential. But memory is not an end in itself; it is a means.

|ByDAN PERRY
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Jerusalem razes Elie Wiesel Plaza for NIS 73m. underground passage to Shaare Zedek

SZMC’s director-general Prof. Ofer Merin told In Jerusalem that when construction is completed, he will make sure that the Elie Wiesel Plaza and its garden are restored.

|ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Agam Berger at March of the Living ceremony 2026.

A dirge without end: March of the Living ceremony presents Jewish life, honors Holocaust survivors

Survivor of the Hamas October 7 terror attack Agam Berger played a violin donated to Yad Vashem by Israeli relatives of a Holocaust survivor.

|ByHAGAY HACOHEN

Israel's 'Ten Days of Deliverance' were more difficult this year - opinion

Although there had been predictions that the war would go on for two years, I couldn’t internalize that we wouldn’t have finished the fighting or brought home the hostages in the first year.

MAY 9, 2025ByBARBARA SOFER
WE REMEMBER: Family and friends mourn as Maj. Dvir Zion Revah is laid to rest on Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl, Jan. 7. Revah, 28, was killed in combat in the Gaza Strip

A Jewish marriage contract that served two couples -opinion

Beyond the Headlines | A weekly glimpse into the Israel you won’t read about in the news.

MAY 5, 2025BySIVAN RAHAV MEIR
People who came to the Hershkovitz's for Zikaron BaSalon. (Inset) Yossi Hershkovitz

WATCH: Israel's 77th Independence Day celebration is like its first

The Jerusalem Dispatch covers how this year's Independence Day is similar to Israel's first one in 1948, alongside other top stories.

APRIL 28, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A woman waves a large Israeli flag as people watch the military airshow as part of Israel's 75th Independence Day celebrations, in Jerusalem, April 26, 2023.

Grapevine April 27, 2025: Honors for Hagee and Huckabee

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

APRIL 27, 2025ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
THE 30-MEMBER delegation from Magen David Adom Youth volunteers on the March of the Living.

Grapevine: Remembrance

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

APRIL 26, 2025ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Visitors seen at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem on May 2, 2024, ahead of Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Surviving beyond tragedy: How Holocaust survivors inspire continuity, resilience - opinion

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, I bow my head in remembrance of the dead, but I also look to the future.

APRIL 26, 2025ByIRIT ROSENBLUM
PEOPLE PAUSE in Jerusalem yesterday as sirens sound throughout Israel on Holocaust Remembrance Day. Says the writer: ‘I bow my head in remembrance of the dead, but I also look to the future. Because our duty is not only to remember the past – but also to make sure that there is a life after it.’

Pro-Palestinian group protests outside Ecuador’s Israeli embassy on Holocaust Remembrance Day

The protests targeted the embassy as the institute had the Israeli flag at half-mast in memory of the six million Jews murdered by Nazis.

APRIL 25, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Demonstrators participate in a pro-Palestinian protest, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Quito, Ecuador June 8, 2024.

Israel's oldest survivor passes away on Holocaust Remembrance Day at age 110

Her son said his mother had lived through the worst of humanity and survived, raising her children with the message that hatred cannot win.

APRIL 25, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Nechama Grossman

'Gaza today is Auschwitz of the 21st century,' Hamas claims after Netanyahu speech

"Those who weep for the victims of Nazism are now the masters of genocide in our time," the statement added.

APRIL 25, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
(Illustrative) Hamas terrorists in front of an Iranian flag and an American embassy.

IDF soldiers mark Holocaust Remembrance Day in Gaza, Syria, Lebanon

The IDF stated that “even in the midst of ongoing missions, we remain mindful of our past and those we have lost."

APRIL 25, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
IDF soldiers marked Holocaust Remembrance Day in combat zones, April, 2025.