Tag: Memorial Day
Netanyahu: ‘On This Day, All Israel Feels the Agony’
PM Benjamin Netanyahu shared personal memories with participants at Mt. Herzl Memorial Day ceremonies.
Fallen ‘Lone Soldiers’ Leave a Family and Country in Mourning
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.
Israel Mourns its Fallen Soldiers and Terror Victims
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.
Terror Victim To Receive Posthumous Military Decoration
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.
President Rivlin at Western Wall Memorial Day Ceremony: ‘We Must have Faith in the...
Maj. Gen. Eizenkot said at the ceremony that the unity of the nation "is the foundation of the Israel Defense Forces, and it shapes it as the nation's army, as a state army."
Offspring of Wehrmacht Soldiers Serving in IDF
"Every time I arrive in my uniform, my 82-year-old grandfather starts crying."
Time-lapse Movie of One World Trade Center Construction
In recognition of the opening of One World Observatory in New York City, EarthCam released a special edition of their One World Trade Center...
Chareidi Initiative United Moment of Silence with Silent Prayer
A new Chareidi initiative has been launched for Yom HaZikaron, called "Sheket, Zochrim" or "Be Silent, We are Remembering".
A Private Memorial Day
An Israeli woman visits a relative's grave on Mount Herzl on Tuesday, a few hours before Memorial Day begins, at which point the military cemetery will be full of family and friends of the deceased.
Today is Memorial Day
Eisenhower forced the residents of a nearby town to go to one of the liberated camps to see what their leaders had done.
Terror Victim Heckles Netanyahu at Yom HaZikaron Ceremony
Netanyahu admitted the decision to release Arab murderers was 'too tough to bear', but failed to acknowledge that the moved failed
A Nation in Unity on Yom HaZikaron, Israel’s Remembrance Day
Israel’s flag waves at half mast for 23,169 lost Israeli soldiers and victims of terror as quiet reigns in the streets on the nation's Remembrance Day.
Yom HaZikaron in Bnei Brak
On Sunday night, Haredi Rabbis and Jews from Bnei Brak took part in a Yom HaZikaron (Memorial Day) ceremony for fallen soldiers.
Netanyahu: Fallen Soldiers ‘Heroes’
Prime Minister Netanyahu has praised the 23,169 IDF soldiers who have died in Israel’s wars.
“You are our heroes,” said Netanyahu in his address to...
Suspicious Family Illegally Opens Mt. Herzl Grave – Finds It Empty
For 40 years, the family of Tzion Tayib have been fighting for proof their son's body was found and buried in the Har Herzl military cemetery - it wasn't.
Bereaved Families Beg Prime Minister ‘Stay Away’ on Memorial Day
Families of victims of terror asked Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to stay away from Memorial Day ceremonies at Mt. Herzl military cemetery.
For These We Weep
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...
Weiner Misses Queens Memorial Day Parade to Speak at Church
New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner passed up the annual Memorial Day parade in his former Queens district on Sunday in order to...
Texas Official Cites Jewish Chaplain’s WW II Dedication
A Texas state official spoke at a Memorial Day service and quoted a Jewish chaplain’s dedication of a temporary cemetery on Iwo Jima in...
As Israelis Mourn the Dead, Jordanians Glorify Killer
The very word "hero" was used by the Jordanian justice minister in joining the chorus calling for the release of a convicted terrorist.
The Only Truth
It's important to realize the cost of something and that includes the State of Israel.
A Day of Agony
Memorial Day in Israel is not a day of picnics and sales or barbecues and fun. It is agony. It is pain.
Counting and Remembering the ‘Dust of Jacob’
The dust is the memory of ages and the children shall always return to the dust of their ancestors.
Amidst the Chaos, the IDF Preserves Israel’s Independence
With Israel's military is at its strongest, the country is capable of dealing with its highly chaotic and dangerous environment.
Pearl’s Father: Execution Caused ‘Revolution’ against Barbarism
Prof. Judea Pearl said at Israel’s Remembrance Day for Fallen Soldiers in Jerusalem Sunday night that the terrorists’’ brutal execution of his son Daniel...
Sharansky Says Yoni Netanyahu Was an Inspiration while in Jail
Yoni Netanyahu, the brother of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu who was killed in the Entebbe rescue, was an inspiration to Natan Sharansky while imprisoned...
The Silence on Israel’s Memorial Day
When I stand silently with my neighbors while the tzefira, the siren, is sounding its awful wail, I am thinking of my daughter.
‘Israel Wants Peace, Enemies Want War,’ Says Netanyahu
”From the moment the state was established, it has not ceased to wish for peace with its neighbors and to the same degree, its...
Memorial Day — To Live and Die for Israel
In that one moment I though of gratitude: I am so thankful to you, fallen tzanchan, fallen Jew, fallen brother. Without you my parents would have had no place to run to from the choke hold of the Soviet Union, without you Jews of the world would never have shelter, and without you, I would not stand here today, wearing this uniform with a red beret that did not yet belong to me.
