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Holocaust Remembrance Day
Rabbi Elimelech Biderman and thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews celebrating in Meron, Northern Israel, December 1, 2017. (David Cohen/Flash90)
April 16, 2018, 8:39 pm
Poll: Only 17% of Israeli ultra-Orthodox celebrate Independence Day
In haredi community, Sephardic Jews and over-45s identify more with festivities; only 34% say Holocaust Remembrance Day a time of mourning
By TOI staff
Hakoah-Makabi recreated t-shirts. by Argentinian teams Hakoaj and Macabi. (Marcelo Freiberg/ courtesy of “El partido que no fue” via JTA)
April 16, 2018, 7:30 pm
Argentine Jews honor Europe’s great pre-war Zionist sports clubs
Hacoaj and Macabi teams don uniforms of the Hakoah Vienna and Makabi Warszaw squads for 'the match that didn’t happen'
By JTA
Screen capture from video of Palestinian political analyst and writer Hani Abu Zeid denying the Holocaust during an interview broadcast on Palestinian TV, April 10, 2018. (Facebook)
April 15, 2018, 1:18 pm
Palestinian TV analyst denies Holocaust, says Jews colluded with Hitler
Political commentator Hani Abu Zeid claims scope of German genocide 'was not that large'; interviewer agrees it was 'a lie' spread around the world
By Stuart Winer
In a screenshot from a video shared by Gal Gadot to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 12, 2018, the Israeli movie star touches the face of her late grandfather Abraham Weiss, a Holocaust survivor whose family was killed at Auschwitz. (Screen capture: Instagram)
April 13, 2018, 4:48 pm
Gal Gadot cries after seeing video of her grandpa on Holocaust Remembrance Day
Israeli movie star says she had never before seen clip of herself with her grandfather, whose entire family was murdered at Auschwitz
By TOI staff
In this Wednesday, April 11, 2018, photo, childhood Holocaust survivors Simon Gronowski and Alice Gerstel Weit embrace at the Los Angeles Holocaust Museum. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
April 13, 2018, 12:13 pm
Childhood Holocaust survivors reunited after 76 years
Alice Gerstel and her family left Brussels in 1941; the Gronowski family stayed and half were murdered in Auschwitz
By John Rogers
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks during a Holocaust memorial ceremony in the Southern Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai, on April 12, 2018. (Flash90)
April 13, 2018, 6:51 am
Liberman calls on Gazans to live peacefully alongside Israel
In Holocaust Remembrance Day address, defense minister says it is time for our 'neighbors from the south' to 'change direction'
By TOI staff
A message for Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, is laser-projected on the National Congress buildings in Brasilia, April 11, 2018. (Roque de Sa/Agencia Senado via Fotos Publicas)
April 13, 2018, 5:47 am
Holocaust Remembrance Day message projected on Brazil’s National Congress
Brasilia's most famous landmark emblazoned with the words 'Holocaust Never Again' in Portuguese to mark Yom Hashoah
By Marcus M. Gilban
Students protesting outside of the Low Library at Columbia University, April 11, 2018. (Courtesy of Columbia University Students Supporting Israel)
April 12, 2018, 11:30 pm
Anti-Israel protest held hold opposite Holocaust commemoration at Columbia
Students for Justice in Palestine chant, 'From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free' in solidarity with Gaza
By JTA
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks in Oxon Hill, MD on February 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster/File)
April 12, 2018, 11:27 pm
Gingrich likens FBI to Gestapo on Holocaust Remembrance eve
After uproar from ADL and various US pundits, former House Speaker stands by comments, tweeting that people shouldn't be defending bureau for raid on Trump associate's home
By JTA
IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot looks through a printed list of all identified victims of the Holocaust at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland on April 12, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)
April 12, 2018, 9:05 pm
In Poland, IDF chief says military puts meaning behind ‘Never again’
Eisenkot marches alongside President Rivlin, senior security officials in March of the Living at Auschwitz
By Judah Ari Gross
US President Donald Trump speaks at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem on May 23, 2017. (Isaac Harari/Flash90)
April 12, 2018, 4:52 pm
Trump on Holocaust day: Americans have ‘moral obligation’ to fight anti-Semitism
US president proclaims: 'We must ensure that the history of the Holocaust remains forever relevant and that no people suffer these tragedies ever again'
By JTA and TOI staff
Jewish youth from all over the world participate in the March of the Living at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in Poland on April 11, 2018(Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
April 12, 2018, 4:09 pm
Holocaust remembrance day: Startup Nation remembers and repairs
Israeli entrepreneurs, descendants of Holocaust victims, are redeeming their ancestors by providing humankind with life sustaining innovations and technologies
By Baruch HaLevi
Suzi Kastner (C) lights a memorial candle in the Knesset for her father, Israel Rudolf Kastner at the parliament's official Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony. Her daughter, Zionist Union MK Merav Michaeli, is pictured on the right (Knesset spokesperson's office/Yonatan Sindel)
April 12, 2018, 2:02 pm
In first, Kastner honored at Knesset Holocaust Remembrance Day event
Parliament defends right for Zionist Union MK Merav Michaeli, accompanied by mother, to dedicate candle-lighting to her controversial grandfather accused of Nazi-collaboration
By Marissa Newman
Israeli forces are deployed near Kibbutz Nir Oz at the Gaza-Israel border amid smoke from tires burned by Palestinians near Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip on April 6, 2018. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)
April 12, 2018, 1:55 pm
Palestinians say one killed, two hurt by IDF fire at Gaza border
Incidents come the day before latest mass-protests expected on Friday at the border fence
By TOI staff
Abba Kovner (back row, center) with members of the Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye (The FPO – Eng: United Partisan Organization) in Vilna, 1940s (Courtesy Israel National Library)
April 12, 2018, 12:35 pm
The hero who planned to kill 6 million Germans
Abba Kovner, a leader of the Vilna Ghetto uprising, planned to use poison to avenge the murder of Jews
By Melody Barron
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