Today’s events began with the sounding of a one minute siren at 10:00 AM, when the nation stood in silent memory of the six million Jews murdered during the attempted Nazi genocide of the Jewish People. The State Opening Ceremony was broadcast with simultaneous translation in English, French, Spanish, German, Hebrew, Russian – and Arabic, for the first time. The Rishon LeZion Chief Rabbi Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef recited the Kaddish mourner’s prayer, and Cantor Avraham Kirshenbaum recited the El Maleh Rahamim Jewish prayer for the souls of the martyrs. The IDF Paratroopers’ Honor Guard participated in the 75-minute ceremony, which also included the recitation of a chapter from Psalms by Israel’s Chief Rabbi David Lau. Short videos about each of the torchlighters was shown, that are available on the Yad Vashem website in the section dedicated to Holocaust Remembrance Day 2021. They are Shmuel Naar, Zehava Gealel, Yossi Chen, Halina Friedman, Sara Fishman and Manya Bigunov. Six survivors then lighted torches in memory of the six million Jews who perished during the Holocaust. But history has taught us that deals like this, with extremist regimes like this, are worth nothing.” “The nuclear agreement with Iran that allowed it to advance its development of atomic bombs, is on the table again. “Let there be no mistake, an agreement with Iran will not bind us in any way,” Netanyahu said. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used his address to warn against current international efforts to revive the nuclear deal with Iran, which has repeatedly threatened to annihilate the Jewish State. On your behalf, I swore to remember and remind that the Jewish people was not born at Auschwitz and that our spiritual, religious and political character was not formed there.” From you, I learned that we were not doomed to grow and develop by negating, in fear and under threat,” said President Rivlin, vowing, “On your behalf, I made sure to tell my interlocutors that we the Jewish people will always, always, defend ourselves by ourselves and will never put our fate in the hands of others. To build a national home and a home of your own.

You Holocaust survivors, heroes of our rebirth, who found the fortitude do get up from the ground soaked in blood and tears, to look forward, to choose life, to love, to laugh, to enjoy, to believe, to build and to create.

“I have no words to describe the strength I drew from you. He then hailed those who helped found the State of Israel in 1948. With me were six million of our brothers and sisters. Rivlin, whose 7-year-term in office is due to end in June, said “In recent years, I have stood next to other heads of state at death camps, valleys of death, memorial sites and museums across Europe.

The central theme of this year’s ceremony was “Until the Very Last Jew: Eighty Years Since the Onset of Mass Annihilation.”Īfter sadly recounting the deaths of 900 Holocaust survivors of the coronavirus in Israel this past year, President Reuven Rivlin said he will forever bear in his heart that the testimony of those who endured the horrors of Nazi Germany during WWII. The central state ceremony was broadcast live from the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem at 8 PM last night, in the presence of the President of the State of Israel and the Prime Minister, dignitaries and Holocaust survivors. Commemoration of the six million Jews murdered during WWII is marked from sunset-to-sunset, in accordance with all Jewish calendar events. Annual observance of Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes Remembrance Day is taking place in Israel.

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