Echoing Holocaust survivor, Herzog urges Israelis to ‘come together to protect our nation’

President Isaac Herzog speaks at the Knesset’s Holocaust remembrance ceremony and encourages Israelis to work toward unity, amid a four-month social and political battle over the government’s intention to radically remake the judiciary.

Recalling a speech made by a Holocaust survivor at yesterday’s official state ceremony, Herzog reiterates his long-running call for national cohesion.

She “called on all of us to come together and unite to protect our nation and our homeland, because we have no other country,” Herzog says, adding: “Let’s listen to her.”

Speaking about the Knesset ceremony, during which names of Jews killed during the Holocaust are read, Herzog says that the fact that “the name of every Jew who went up in flames is read out loud, 80 years later, in Jerusalem, in the legislature of the democratic state of the Jewish nation, is the great victory.”