Remembrance Day

Women of the Wall call on Katz to include women in national Remembrance Day ceremony

The letter deplored that women had never had a significant role in the ceremony at the Western Wall, other than lighting the ceremonial torch.

|ByTZVI JASPER
A HOLOCAUST survivor lights a torch during a ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Right-wing protesters scream in opposition at the joint Israeli-Palestinian Remembrance Day ceremony in Jaffa

Israelis must refrain from violence, even if we disagree - comment

This wasn’t a protest – it was an attack on the very idea that coexistence is possible. On the eve of a day meant for national unity, these rioters chose division, hate, and violence.

|ByTAMAR URIEL-BEERI
Israeli flag

Why Israel makes me smile: Reflections on life, culture, and connection - opinion

When we inadvertently got stuck overnight in Jerusalem on Remembrance Day, I said to myself that Jews throughout time and space would have done anything to be in my predicament.

|ByHOLLY CIN
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

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.

|ByBARBARA SOFER

Leave politics out of Remembrance Day - opinion

Remembrance Day exists for the entire people – one day a year when the nation collectively expresses gratitude to the fallen and stands in solidarity with the families left behind.

APRIL 29, 2025ByZEHAVA GROSS-MEIDAN
MOUNT HERZL Military Cemetery in Jerusalem: The national Remembrance Day exists for the entire people – one day a year when the nation collectively expresses gratitude to the fallen and stands in solidarity with the families left behind, the writer states.

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.

Where memory meets meaning: The Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem’s vision for a better tomorrow

The museum’s “6:29” exhibit on Oct. 7 and upcoming Remembrance Day event inspire visitors to confront hate and embrace humanity.

APRIL 25, 2025ByALAN ROSENBAUM, IN COLLABORATION WITH THE MUSEUM OF TOLERANCE JERUSALEM
PRESIDENT HERZOG listens to ‘6:29’ testimonies

Israel's Remembrance Day to honor 5,229 terror victims and 25,417 fallen soldiers

Since 1851, terrorist attacks and hostilities have left  behind 4,753 orphans, 1,058 widows and widowers, 6,155 brothers and sisters, and 2,346 bereaved parents.

APRIL 25, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
An Israeli soldier stands during a two-minute siren marking the annual Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day, at an installation at the site of the Nova festival where party goers were killed and kidnapped during the October 7 massacre by Hamas terrorists, in Reim, southern Israel, May 6, 2024.

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.

Eight Holocaust survivors to participate in Yad Vashem's Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony

They will be joined by Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan, who will light the Memorial Torch, while six different Holocaust survivors who will light six separate torches. 

APRIL 23, 2025ByJOANIE MARGULIES
PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG addresses a state ceremony at Yad Vashem marking Holocaust Remembrance Day last year.

'No ministers, no respect': Druze community outraged over gov't snub at Remembrance Day ceremony

Instead of a government minister participating in the ceremony, Likud MK Eti Atiya will arrive in Daliyat al-Carmel as the government representative.

APRIL 23, 2025ByYOAV ETIEL
Druze have been serving in the IDF since the state was born.

A memorial of stickers: The modern vigil for Israel's fallen

The modern vigil for Israel’s fallen: the walls of Israel are covered with the many faces that represent the price of living as a free people in our land. 

MARCH 8, 2025ByYONATAN VERSTANDIG
Close-up of a sticker mosaic, one of many.

Pro-Palestine groups plan to 'swarm' UK with coordinated protests on Armistice Day

Youth Demand, which is an offshoot of Just Stop Oil, has planned to hold anti-Israel demonstrations in five British cities.

NOVEMBER 10, 2024ByMATHILDA HELLER
People demonstrate in Vauxhall during a protest in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in London, Britain, November 11, 2023

Avoiding the confusion: October 7 vs. SimchatTorah as the Day of Remembrance

OCTOBER 9, 2024ByMARK FISH