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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 478

Avner Shalev

File photo: Yad Vashem chairman Avner Shalev speaks during a presentation to the media before the opening of an exhibition, showing the blueprints of the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz, at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, January 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)
January 27, 2021, 2:39 pm
PODCAST: Yad Vashem head pleads for truth to be sole guide in Holocaust research
The retiring chair of Israel’s Holocaust memorial, Avner Shalev, speaks about cynical political use of Shoah history and increased virtual commemorations in the COVID era
By ToI Staff
The empty Warsaw Ghetto Square at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, during the Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 21, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 30, 2020, 2:44 pm
Along with row over its next head, Yad Vashem faces cash crunch due to pandemic
Squabbling politicians leave famed Holocaust memorial and research center without funding — and, come January, without a director
By Haviv Rettig Gur
EffieEitam speaks during the Gush Katif conference at the Tel Aviv Museum on March 23, 2017. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
October 27, 2020, 11:41 pm
Apparent pick of nationalist ex-minister to head Yad Vashem sparks outcry
Some fear former brigadier general Effie Eitam, who has a history of harsh rhetoric toward Palestinians, could tarnish reputation of Holocaust memorial and museum
By Joseph Krauss
Avner Shalev, chairman of the Yad Vashem Museum, during a press conference at the Keren Hayesod headquarters in Jerusalem, on December 8, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
June 21, 2020, 6:48 pm
Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial chairman resigns after 27 years
Avner Shalev, 81, informs Netanyahu of his decision, but does not name a successor to take over national remembrance institute
By ToI Staff
Lebanese-Swiss businessman Abdallah Chatila, who purchased items belonging to Adolf Hitler at a public auction in Europe to ensure that they do not get into neo-Nazi hands, visits the Hall of Names at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem on December 8, 2019. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
December 8, 2019, 6:22 pm
Israel welcomes Lebanon-born businessman who bought and is donating Hitler items
Visiting Jerusalem, diamond and real estate magnate Abdalla Chatila says he considered the prospect of the collection landing in ‘the wrong hands’ a ‘potential lethal injustice’
By Adam Rasgon
A shoe belonging to two-year-old Hinda Cohen, who was killed at Auschwitz on March 27, 1944. Her father Dov etched the date on the sole upon discovering his daughter was taken during a 'Children's Aktion.' (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)
March 27, 2019, 6:02 am
Yad Vashem to break ground on new artifacts center on Holocaust Remembrance Day
Enlarged Shoah Heritage Campus to include millions of documents and artifacts, from a toddler’s shoe marked with the day she died to a portrait of a Nazi painted on a Torah scroll
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Illustrative. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tours the Golan Heights near the Syrian border, April 11, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
April 7, 2017, 6:57 am
Israeli leaders offer wall-to-wall praise for US strike on Syria
IDF updated by Washington before raid on regime targets overnight; Netanyahu hails ‘message of resolve’; Rivlin lauds ‘fitting response to such unthinkable brutality’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev seen during a press conference in preparation for Pope Francis' visit to Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, May 22, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 6, 2017, 10:22 pm
Yad Vashem head calls for end to Syrian war and its ‘atrocities’
Avner Shalev says world leaders must act now to prevent further suffering, hours after ex-chief rabbi says Syrian situation is ‘a holocaust’
By JTA and ToI Staff
Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev seen during a press conference in preparation for Pope Francis' visit to Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, May 22, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 18, 2016, 6:43 pm
Yad Vashem head condemns ‘atrocities’ in Syria
Avner Shalev expresses ‘deep concern over the appalling images of massacres,’ in rare statement from Holocaust memorial
By AP and ToI Staff
German chancellor Angela Merkel speaks on January 25, 2016 in Berlin during the opening of the exhibition 'Art from the Holocaust -100 Works from the Yad Vashem Collection' (BRITTA PEDERSEN/POOL/AFP)
January 26, 2016, 9:39 am
Merkel opens Holocaust art expo with anti-Semitism warning
Paintings on display at Berlin’s German Historical Museum depict suffering endured by Jewish concentration camp prisoners
By AFP
German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks to the media during the winter conference of the Christian Social Union (CSU) state parliamentary group in Wildbad Kreuth, on January 20, 2016. (AFP/dpa/Peter Kneffel)
January 25, 2016, 4:26 pm
Merkel to open Shoah exhibit with warning on migrant anti-Semitism
Berlin show highlights stark drawings by Holocaust victims testifying to savage treatment at Nazi hands and the fragility of daily life
By AFP
This undated photograph released by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial shows World War II US Army Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds. (Courtesy of Yad Vashem via AP)
December 2, 2015, 10:01 am
Israel honors GI who told the Nazis, ‘We are all Jews’
US Army Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds, who died in 1985, led over 1,000 POWs in refusing to deliver Jewish comrades to German captors
By Aron Heller
Holocaust survivor Ina Rennert (Rehavi), born on 1935 in Krakow, Poland, shows her Teddy Bear which was with her during the World War II, as she attends "Children in the Holocaust: Stars Without a Heaven", a new exhibition of the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum on April 12, 2015, in Jerusalem. (Photo credit: AFP/MENAHEM KAHANA)
From the WebApril 13, 2015, 8:57 am
Exhibit showcases world of children during the Holocaust
At Yad Vashem, ‘Stars Without A Heaven’ highlights the lives of the 1.5 million Jewish children murdered during World War II
By HAZEL WARD
Members of a Turkish delegation explore the Learning Center: Reflection After the Holocaust, at Yad Vashem (photo credit: : Martin Sykes-Haas)
June 26, 2014, 10:27 pm
Turkish academics attend Yad Vashem seminar
15-member delegation participates in week-long workshop on Holocaust education with goal of improving methods in Turkey
By Aron Dónzis
The Hall of Remembrance at the Holocaust Memorial Museum Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, April 21, 2009. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
October 24, 2013, 11:53 am
Turkish university to host Holocaust seminar
As Turkey’s Jews leave the country en masse, Yad Vashem-sponsored program aims to foster understanding with Muslim world
By Stuart Winer
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