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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 645

Israeli Memorial Day

Singer-songwriter Idan Raichel on piano with released hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen on April 29. 2025 (Screengrab: YouTube)
May 3, 2025, 11:51 pm
Freed hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen sings with Idan Raichel
Kibbutz Nir Oz resident speaks about sense of hope and loss experienced by his community, during performance of Shalom Hanoch’s song ‘Children of Life’
By Jessica Steinberg
People walk at the Mahaneh Yehudah Market in Jerusalem, during Israel's 76th Independence Day on May 13, 2024. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)
April 30, 2025, 5:08 pm
As Israel shifts from sorrow to joy, rabbinic group offers new prayer for grieving nation
Drafted by Tzohar, the prayer aims to help the public navigate the painful transition from Memorial Day to Independence Day amid ongoing trauma and hostage crisis
By Rossella Tercatin
Asher Wolach holds a memorial photo of Rabbi Avi Goldberg, April 2025. (Gal Aharonovich/ International Fellowship of Christians and Jews)
April 30, 2025, 4:21 pm
In tearful reversal, Holocaust survivors mourn beloved IDF soldiers killed since Oct. 7
As Israelis commemorate those lost in the Shoah as well as fallen troops and terror victims, the elderly grieve for young volunteers who visited them, felled over 19 months of war
By Deborah Danan
People stand still to observe two minutes of silence as sirens sound marking Israel's annual Memorial Day at the site of Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas terrorists at the Nova music festival near Kibbutz Re'im, southern Israel, April 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
April 30, 2025, 3:44 pm
Israel’s anthem yearns for us ‘to be a free people, in our own land.’ We dare not fail
These past 18 months, we have struggled as never before in our modern history. We let down our guard and our enemies pounced. Worse still, our internal rifts are widening. We can and must heal them if we are to revive
By David Horovitz
People stand still as a two-minute siren sounded across Israel, marking Memorial Day at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem on April 30, 2025. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)
April 30, 2025, 3:23 pm
As Israelis mark Memorial Day, PM honors troops who ‘broke the grip of our enemies’
Netanyahu heckled by protesters at Mount Herzl who urge him to free the hostages and to resign; key torch-lighting ceremony marking transition to Independence Day nixed due to fires
By Lazar Berman, Charlie Summers, Diana Bletter and ToI Staff
Housing and Construction Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf at the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 27, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 30, 2025, 11:34 am
After protests, ultra-Orthodox minister staying away from Memorial Day ceremony
Bereaved families express relief over decision, after telling Yitzhak Goldknopf to skip Kiryat Gat event and instead work on ‘recruiting yeshiva students’
By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff
Police escort a woman away from right-wing rioters who disrupted a screening at Ra'anana's Beit Samueli synagogue of the joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day ceremony, April 29, 2025. (X screenshot)
April 30, 2025, 9:20 am
Rioters storm Ra’anana synagogue during screening of Israeli-Palestinian memorial event
4 police officers and 3 participants injured, 3 right-wing activists arrested after attack on Reform Beit Samueli building; MK Gilad Kariv, a, rabbi, decries ‘attempted pogrom’
By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff
Israeli soldiers stand still as the memorial siren sounds during the ceremony marking Memorial Day for Israel's fallen soldiers and victims of terror, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, on April 29, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 29, 2025, 11:40 pm
‘Stop the hatred’: As Israel marks Memorial Day, Herzog pleads for peace within society
IDF chief says ‘foremost obligation is to bring hostages home’; PM, Knesset speaker heckled; 3,000 at Haredi ceremony; right-wing mob attacks Reform shul screening Israeli-Palestinian event
By Emanuel Fabian, Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff
Housing and Construction Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf speaks at a faction meeting for his ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party on March 3, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 29, 2025, 6:10 pm
Despite protest, Goldknopf refuses to step back from Memorial Day ceremony
Bereaved families tell Haredi politician to skip Kiryat Gat event, work on ‘recruiting yeshiva students’ instead; minister’s aides says ‘no negotiations underway’ to replace him
By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff
Palestinians, Israelis and politicians attend a memorial ceremony for those lost in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in Tel Aviv on May 3, 2022, as Israel marks its annual Memorial Day. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
April 29, 2025, 1:27 pm
An alternative Memorial Day ceremony marks its 20th year. Participants say it’s the future
Controversial joint Israeli-Palestinian event honoring the slain on both sides continues to grow, even in the shadow of the October 7 massacre and ongoing war in Gaza
By Nurit Yohanan
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir speaks during an official Memorial Day ceremony at the Ashdod Military Cemetery on May 13, 2024. (Liron Moldovan/Flash90)
April 28, 2025, 5:39 pm
Government reshuffles Memorial Day lineup to keep divisive ministers from the bereaved
Ben Gvir left off list altogether after two years of protests, but spokesman says he will be at police ceremony; overhaul architect Levin moved from Nahariya to settlement bloc
By ToI Staff
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April 27, 2025, 12:22 pm
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The ceremony unites Jews from across the globe in remembrance of the victims of terror and the fallen Israeli soldiers who sacrificed their lives to protect the State of Israel.
A poster for an evening of song and unity in Jerusalem, planned for April 27, 2025, by the families of the 'Beautiful 6,' referring to six Hamas hostages killed in a Gaza tunnel in August 2024: Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Almog Sarusi, Or Danino and Alex Lubanov. (Courtesy)
April 27, 2025, 12:40 am
Families of ‘Beautiful 6’ murdered hostages organize evening of song
All Israelis invited to gather in Jerusalem Sunday in memory of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Almog Sarusi, Or Danino and Alex Lubanov, slain by their terrorist captors
By Jessica Steinberg
Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem on May 13, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 25, 2025, 6:07 am
319 soldiers, 79 civilians killed since last Memorial Day
Numbers take total casualties of wars, terror to 30,649; in addition, 61 disabled veterans succumbed to injuries sustained during service; numbers published ahead of next week’s commemorations
By Emanuel Fabian
In this 2021 image, Rav Doron Perez (center) poses with his two soldier sons Yonatan (left, then 22) and Daniel (then 20), who was slain on October 7, 2023, and his remains captured by Hamas and taken to Gaza. (courtesy)
May 24, 2024, 9:12 am
What Matters Now to Rav Doron Perez: Life after his hostage son’s death
Executive Chairman of the Mizrachi World Movement on living with uncertainty as family waited 163 days to learn of hostage son Daniel’s slaying on Oct. 7. His body remains in Gaza
By ToI Staff
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