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Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and his wife, Gilat, light candles for the 'Unto Every Person There is a Name' ceremony at the Knesset on April 28., 2022. (Koby Gideon/GPO)
April 28, 2022, 2:57 pm
Bennett: Holocaust memory is part of Jews’ DNA, passed from generation to generation
Bundestag president lights candle at Knesset memorial ceremony, noting ‘historical guilt,’ but MK Akunis says he will never forgive Germans for their role
By Rachel Bernstein
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks during a ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, as Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 27, 2022. (Amos Ben Gershom / GPO)
April 27, 2022, 9:24 pm
Bennett urges unity, rejects Holocaust comparisons as Israel marks remembrance day
Prime minister and president focus on individual victims to evoke horrors of the genocide during memorial event at Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem
By Luke Tress
Illustrative: Joseph Kleinman, a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor who survived Auschwitz and Dachau Nazi death camp wearing a face mask as he stands at his porch in Jerusalem, during the Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 21, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 27, 2022, 8:57 am
Ahead of annual memorial day, 161,400 Holocaust survivors living in Israel
Average age is 85.5, with over 1,000 over age 100; social equality minister notes urgency in providing assistance as some 40 survivors die each day
By Stuart Winer
The director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum Piotr Cywinski delivers a speech during a ceremony at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, January 27, 2020. (Markus Schreiber/AP)
January 26, 2022, 4:27 pm
Auschwitz foundation launches ‘Indifference Challenge’ to counter apathy to racism
Grant program will reward projects tackling racial prejudice, antisemitism and discrimination; chairman warns that bystanders facilitate bigotry
By AFP and TOI staff
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