Holocaust Remembrance Day

From Remembrance Day to Independence Day as a new immigrant to Israel - opinion

Yom HaAtzmaut follows on the heels of Israel’s somber and sobering Day of Remembrance. This year, we had the honor to attend such a service with our friends from Nes Harim.

|ByHOLLY CIN
People visit the graves of Israeli soldiers at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, April 16, 2026, days before Yom HaZikaron (Israeli Memorial Day).
PROF. YISRAEL AUMANN speaks at a Nov. 2005 news conference at the Hebrew University, after winning the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on conflict and cooperation through game theory analysis. He shares the prize with American economist Thomas Schelling.

From Passover to sirens: Why Jewish survival still demands action - opinion

In every single generation, there are those who would seek our destruction – but we are still here.

|BySTEWART WEISS
Prof. Yisrael Aumann speaks at a Nov. 2005 news conference at the Hebrew University, after winning the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on conflict and cooperation through game theory analysis. He shares the prize with American economist Thomas Schelling.

From Passover to Independence Day: Memory, sacrifice, and Israeli resilience - opinion

As Passover ends, Israel moves through remembrance to celebration, carrying memory and meaning into independence.

|BySTEWART WEISS
A MOMENT of stillness as Israel marks 78 years of independence facing a complex reality.

Independence Day: Israel’s sirens signal danger, loss - and a wake-up call

Maybe we need that last one as a new tradition of ringing another siren at the beginning of every Independence Day – an alert that we are part of a very special country.

|ByDAVID BRINN

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.

Sirens in Israel wake us up to who we are and what we face - editorial

Let the sirens we heard Thursday and will hear twice next week on Remembrance Day wake us to the tragedy that could potentially take place.

APRIL 25, 2025ByJPOST EDITORIAL
Individuals stand to attention during the Holocaust Remembrance Day siren on Jerusalem's Jaffa Street, April 24, 2025.

Holocaust Remembrance Day speech by Hod Hasharon mayor sparks controversy over Gaza implications

Quoting a Holocaust survivor's speech, Kochavi said that there is a difference between "never again," and "never again -- for us."

APRIL 24, 2025ByJOANIE MARGULIES
High school pupils, teachers and staff attend the Holocaust memorial service alongside local Holocaust survivors who will share their first-hand eye testimony, Darka-Nofey Golan High school, Katsrin, Golan Heights, April 24, 2025.

'We are not at the mercy of others': Yad Vashem head says Holocaust, Oct. 7 are not the same

The Jerusalem Post Podcast with Tamar Uriel-Beeri and Eve Young.

APRIL 24, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Jerusalem Post Editor-in-Chief Zvika Klein (L) alongside Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan.