Military officials across the country are placing 24,213 memorial candles, flowers and miniature flags at half-staff by the graves of soldiers, police officers and other security personnel who have fallen throughout the history of the State of Israel and the Zionist movement, as the state prepares to mark Memorial Day at sundown tomorrow.
Israel will come to a standstill Monday evening at 8 p.m. for a minute-long memorial siren to commemorate the country’s fallen soldiers and terror victims. The siren will be followed by the lighting of a memorial flame for the fallen at the Western Wall, the site of the official state commemoration ceremony.
On Tuesday, another official memorial ceremony will be held at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, alongside a two-minute siren at 11 a.m. Later in the day, a separate commemoration for Israel’s 4,255 terror victims will take place at Mount Herzl.
Memorial Day will end abruptly at sundown Tuesday with the start of Independence Day, traditionally ushered in with fireworks and street celebrations nationwide.
An IDF soldier places flags on graves of fallen soldiers at the military cemetery at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, April 23, 2023, ahead of Memorial Day. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
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