Herzog at Yad Vashem: This Holocaust Remembrance Day, we are at war

This year’s Holocaust Remembrance Day “is not a regular Memorial Day,” President Isaac Herzog declares during an address at the official state Yom Hashoah memorial ceremony at Yad Vashem. “This year, the State of Israel is at war. We are at war.”

“Two hundred and twelve days have passed since the terrible massacre carried out by Hamas terrorists, against babies, children, and elderly, women and men. Since then, we have been in a period of ‘difficult days and heavy bloodshed.’ Since then, our brothers and sisters have been held hostage by a cruel enemy, and our hearts along with them,” he says.

“I appeal from the heart to the families of the hostages, and I cry out, and pray, and hope, and commit on behalf of the entire nation: we will not rest and we will not be silent until our sons and daughters return home.”