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Holocaust Remembrance Day
Deputy IDF Chief of Staff Yair Golan in August 2015 (Gefen Reznik/IDF Spokesperson)
July 11, 2017, 5:56 pm
Outgoing general defends his controversial Holocaust Remembrance Day speech
In exit interview, IDF No. 2 Yair Golan says he was shocked by backlash last year when he compared Israeli societal trends to those of pre-WWII Germany
By Judah Ari Gross
A Chechen gay man who fled persecution in his home Russia's Muslim region of Chechnya due to his sexual orientation, sits on his bed in Moscow on April 17, 2017. (AFP/Naira Davlashyan)
April 29, 2017, 5:05 pm
US Holocaust Museum condemns Chechnya’s reported persecution of gay men
Museum director says Nazi genocide 'teaches us what can happen when state-sponsored, group-targeted violence is allowed to go unchecked'
By JTA and AFP
Anderson Hall at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. (CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons)
April 27, 2017, 10:38 pm
Anti-Semitic poster hung at Kansas State U on Holocaust Remembrance Day
President of school condemns flyer proclaiming that 'ending white privilege starts with ending Jewish privilege'
By JTA
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, on Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 23, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 25, 2017, 8:54 pm
Historians reject Netanyahu’s claim Allies could have saved 4 million from Holocaust
'This is utter nonsense,' says Yehuda Bauer, comparing PM's thesis with his earlier derided assertion that the Mufti of Jerusalem convinced Hitler to enact the Final Solution
By Raphael Ahren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a joint press conference with Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on Tuesday, 25 April 2017. (Haim Zach/GPO)
April 25, 2017, 6:35 pm
Austrian chancellor: EU must contribute more to Mideast peace
In meeting with Netanyahu, Christian Kern says Israel is a role model and he looks forward to increased cooperation
By TOI staff
Interior of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, located south of the National Mall in Washington, D.C. in 2010. (CC BY-SA AgnosticPreachersKid, Wikipedia)
April 25, 2017, 6:11 pm
Thousands sign petition against Trump speech at Holocaust museum
Jewish social justice group challenges invite for president to deliver keynote speech on national remembrance day
By JTA
US President Donald Trump (L) and Ivanka Trump listen while speaking via video with NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station from the Oval Office of the White House on April 24, 2017. (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)
April 25, 2017, 6:35 am
Trump on Holocaust lessons: ‘We must remain vigilant against hateful ideologies’
Marking the Days of Remembrance, president and his daughter, secretary of state honor victims of Nazi atrocities
By AP
Opposition leader Zionist Union chairman Isaac Herzog at the party faction meeting, March 20, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
April 25, 2017, 1:13 am
PM’s ultimatum to Germany causes ‘serious harm’ to ties, Herzog warns
Opposition lawmakers lambaste Netanyahu's demand that Berlin's top diplomat cancel meetings with rights groups
By TOI staff
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel visits the Hall of Remembrance, where the names of major death and concentration camps are written, during his visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem, April 24, 2017. (AFP/GALI TIBBON)
April 24, 2017, 10:33 pm
Netanyahu threatens to boycott German minister if he meets rights groups
FM Sigmar Gabriel, visiting Israel, must choose between talks with B'Tselem and Breaking the Silence or PM, Israeli official says
By Stuart Winer and Raphael Ahren
President Reuven Rivlin addresses a Holocaust memorial day ceremony at the Ghetto Fighters House Museum in Lohamei HaGeta'ot on April 24, 2017. (Rami Shllush)
April 24, 2017, 9:58 pm
Blasting Le Pen, Rivlin calls for ‘war’ on new kind of Holocaust denial
At event marking end of Holocaust Remembrance Day, president says Israel must resist 'unholy alliances with extreme right-wing elements'
By Raphael Ahren
IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot addressing the March of the Living near the site of the Auschwitz death camp, on April 24, 2017. (IDF Spokesperson)
April 24, 2017, 7:49 pm
IDF chief at Auschwitz vows to fight enemies ‘bent on Israel’s destruction’
Leading March of the Living ceremony at site of Nazi death camp in Poland, Gadi Eisenkot says Israel will protect Jews around world
By Stuart Winer and TOI staff
The memorial ceremony held on Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, April 24, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 24, 2017, 5:09 pm
50 Holocaust survivors have served in Knesset
One in 20 Israeli parliamentarians, 46 men and 4 women, lived through the Nazi onslaught; 5 served as cabinet ministers
By TOI staff
Holocaust survivors light six torches representing the six million victims of the Nazi genocide during the opening ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, April 23, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 24, 2017, 3:30 pm
Between never forget and never again
Speeches by leaders point to disputes over how to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, reflecting a continuing battle of past versus future
By Joshua Davidovich
Youths take part in the March of the Living at the Auschwitz death camp in Poland on April 24, 2017. (Yossi Zeliger/March of the Living)
April 24, 2017, 3:15 pm
10,000 youths mark Holocaust Remembrance Day at Auschwitz
Education minister tells participants of annual commemoration at site of Nazi death camp that Israel will be an 'Iron Dome' to protect Jews
By TOI staff and AP
April 24, 2017, 2:35 pm
Once there was a villain named Hitler
Israeli kids start learning the emotional ropes of Holocaust remembrance at an early age
By Amanda B. Dan
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