Biden lays wreath, rekindles Eternal Flame at Yad Vashem ceremony

Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter

US President Joe Biden rekindles the eternal flame at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, July 13, 2022. (Screenshot)
US President Joe Biden rekindles the eternal flame at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, July 13, 2022. (Screenshot)

US President Joe Biden visits the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, where he rekindles the Eternal Flame in the Hall of Remembrance, and lays a wreath on the slab under which ashes of extermination camp victims are interred.

During the ceremony, Biden is flanked by President Isaac Herzog, Prime Minister Yair Lapid, Defense Secretary Benny Gantz, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, Holocaust survivor and Chairman of the Yad Vashem Council Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, and Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan.

A choir sings the song “A Walk to Caesarea,” or “Eli, Eli” written by Hungarian Jewish World War II resistance fighter Hannah Szenes, who was executed in Hungary in 1944.

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