Israel unites in grief over Holocaust victims as ceremonies held nationwide

Holocaust memorial day events are being held across the country, after a two-minute siren sounded nationwide at 10 a.m.

The annual wreath-laying ceremony is being held at Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem Holocaust museum, attended by President Isaac Herzog, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana and Supreme Court President Esther Hayut, alongside Holocaust survivors.

The ceremony features wreath-laying in honor of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943.

At 11 a.m., the annual Holocaust victim name-reading ceremony will begin at Yad Vashem, under the title “Unto Every Person There is A Name.” A parallel event will be held at the Knesset, with survivors and their family members lighting six memorial candles.

At 1 p.m., the main state memorial ceremony will begin at Yad Vashem’s Hall of Remembrance.