The Jewish Agency holds a remembrance service for Jews killed in anti-Semitic attacks around the world.
The ceremony, which takes place on Israel’s Memorial Day for fallen soldiers and terror victims, is held at the Agency’s Jerusalem headquarters.
Among those present are the family of Jewish teacher Moshe Ya’ish Nahari, who was murdered in an anti-Semitic attack in Yemen in 2008.
“The war on our right to be a free people in our land has no borders. We have been attacked in France, in Copenhagen, and in Argentina,” Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky tells attendees.
“Our enemies keep trying to destroy Jewish life and we continue to build it. They try to sever the chain of generations and we keep it going strong. Our tool is aliyah. The entire Nahari family made aliyah after their father’s murder and was successfully integrated into Israeli society.
“We will continue to strengthen the connection between Jews and Israel around the world in order to ensure that the final words of Jewish journalist Daniel Pearl and Jewish teacher Moshe Ya’ish Nahari — ‘we are Jews and we will remain Jews’ — live on.”
Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky kindles a memorial flame together with two relatives of slain Yemeite Jew Moshe Nahari (faces blurred at the family’s request), on May 11, 2016. (Sasson Tiram for The Jewish Agency for Israel)
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