Memorial

WATCH: A son's tale of an Ammunition Hill hero

Alon Wald never met his father, a paratrooper killed at Ammunition Hill during the Six-Day War when Alon was just 10 months old. Today, he runs the memorial site where his father fell.

Soldiers praying at the Kotel in 2013.
People attend a commemoration of the victims of the Holocaust at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp on January 27, 2020 in Berlin, Germany.

Berlin Holocaust memorial vandalized, covered in green graffiti, police say

THE MURAL in honor of children killed in Iran by regional violence and unrest.

Israel honors children killed in Iranian unrest, Druze children killed by Hezbollah, with new mural

A memorial at a bus stop near Kibbutz Re'im.

The landscape of October 7: Should more be done to memorialize the massacre?


Israeli educators can learn from delegation visit to 9/11 memorial following Oct. 7

What can Israeli educators learn from a visit to the memorial for the victims of 9/11?

 N THE Kehilat Jeshurun Synagogue on the Upper East Side. Educators from Derech Kfar who participated in TALI’s Halleli Intensive Leadership Program in New York.

A joint memorial service is needed this year more than ever - opinion

Change starts with the ability to hear, feel, and acknowledge the pain of the other. This is our mission in the Joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day ceremony, this year more than ever.

 A RECORD crowd of over 15,000 attended last year’s 18th Joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial event, held in Tel Aviv.

Secret chess pieces found at Auschwitz camp tell a story of prisoner life

This discovery adds a significant layer to the museum's collection that already includes items like wooden miniature chess pieces and bread-made figures.

 A set of handmade chess pieces hidden beneath the floor at the Auschwitz camp.

Israel establishes an annual commemoration of the Oct. 7 attack — but not on Oct. 7

When Israel’s governing coalition convened on Sunday to set an annual memorial day to commemorate the tragedy, it didn’t choose October 7 or any date on the Gregorian calendar.


UN chief Antonio Guterres to sit out of Holocaust event for first time in 10 years

Guterres’ absence from the event will come after facing heavy criticism from Israel and its supporters for his response to the war.

 United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres waits for the arrival of French Foreign and European Affairs Minister Stephane Sejourne before a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the crisis in the Gaza Strip at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., January 23, 2024.

Candle memorial at the Kotel to mark 100 days since Oct. 7

Over the past 100 days, dozens of moving and unifying prayer events have taken place, with thousands of attending worshippers.

People light the Hanukkah candles for the release of Israelis kidnapped in the Gaza Strip by Hamas terrorists at the Western Wall, December 7, 2023.

Grapevine January 7th, 2024: First-hand information of living nightmare

Their accounts detailed over 10 hours of a life-threatening race: escaping by car and foot, seeking improvised shelter, and ducking from gunfire.

 WUJS students with Supernova music festival survivors

Visits to Auschwitz Memorial Museum up 41% in 2023

Over 1.67 million people visited the museum in 2023, which is a significant rise from the 2022 numbers which were limited due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

 Auschwitz concentration camp, operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during the Holocaust.

Grapevine january 5 2024: 'Never Again' - No more than lip service

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 FLOWERS ARE laid at the sculpture 'Trains to Death' by Frank Meisler and Arie Ovadia at Friedrichstrasse train station in Berlin.

DJ honors victims of Nova festival by performing at empty massacre site

Israeli DJ RIMO pays tribute to lives lost at the Nova music festival, by performing on the stage at the site of the massacre in front of a field filled with the pictures of victims.

 Pictures of the participants of the Nova party who were murdered and kidnapped by the terrorist organization Hamas on October 7, 2023 are displayed while an artist play music, at the site of the Nova music festival massacre, in Re'im, near the Israeli-Gaza border, November 28, 2023