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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 423

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Friends and family of the victims of the Nova music festival massacre gather at the site of the massacre in southern Israel one year after the attack, October 7, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 7, 2024, 11:55 pm
Oct. 7 ceremonies across Israel see mix of searing grief, political tensions
One year after massacre, several major and countless smaller ceremonies take place, as the country grapples with grim anniversary at same time as ongoing war and internal division
By Deborah Danan
Photographs of the victims killed and held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza since the October 7 massacre, at Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv. September 29, 2024. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
October 6, 2024, 4:03 am
After 40,000 planned to attend, alternative Oct. 7 memorial limited to 2,000 people
Organizers say wartime cap on gatherings will limit crowd, invite public to watch in their own communities; Herzog says Israel can’t fully heal while hostages remain in Gaza
By ToI Staff and AFP
Israelis embrace next to photos of people killed and taken captive by Hamas terrorists during their violent rampage through the Nova music festival in southern Israel, which are displayed at the site of the event, as Israeli DJs spun music, to commemorate the October 7, massacre, near Kibbutz Re'im, November 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
August 27, 2024, 11:47 am
Huge alternative Oct. 7 memorial ceremony to be held in Tel Aviv; state event in Ofakim
Tens of thousands expected at Yarkon Park gathering to be emceed by Hanoch Daum and Rotem Sela, include speeches by bereaved families, relatives of hostages, Gaza border residents
By ToI Staff
Transportation Minister Miri Regev holds a press conference discussing plans for the state ceremony commemorating the October 7 massacre, at the Transportation Ministry in Jerusalem, August 22, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 22, 2024, 6:22 pm
Regev dismisses families’ objections as ‘noise’ as she pushes ahead with Oct. 7 ceremony
She likens communities’ planned events to ‘alternative ceremonies, such as Israeli-Palestinian ceremony on Memorial Day’; is accused of ignoring pain of bereaved, hostages’ families
By ToI Staff
A community space and kitchen in the Zomi displaced people's camp in the Gaza Strip has been named for the Canadian-born Israeli peace campaigner Vivian Silver, who was murdered by Hamas terrorists in her home in Kibbutz Be'eri, close to the Gaza border, on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy, Damour for Community Development)
August 8, 2024, 2:10 pm
Israeli peace activist murdered by Hamas is memorialized in Gaza evacuee camp
Sign with Vivian Silver’s name and photo graces community facility in humanitarian zone in south Gaza
By Sue Surkes
Israelis stand for a minute of silence in Tel Aviv on November 7, 2023, to remember the victims of the October 7 Hamas massacre last month. (Photo by Albert Bannon, made available by the Brothers and Sisters in Arms protest group)
November 7, 2023, 2:58 pm
Israel observes national day of mourning, one month after October 7 massacre
A minute of silence is held and flags are lowered to half staff as memorial ceremonies get underway across country to remember 1,400 dead, advocate for 242 hostages
By ToI Staff
Former UK Prime Minister Theresa May addresses members of the United Synagogue at a memorial ceremony for Queen Elizabeth ll ,held at St. John's Wood Synagogue, northwest London, on September 15, 2022. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
September 15, 2022, 2:59 am
‘Always a spark about her’: Ex-PM May shares Queen stories at Jewish memorial event
May offers a series of warm insights, and then stresses, above all, that Elizabeth II ‘believed in the importance of faith, and recognized the value of other faiths’
By Sue Surkes
Written in Hebrew at the Anna Szenes House in Kibbutz Sdot Yam are the words of the young Senesh's poem, 'A voice called, and I went.' (Shmuel Bar-Am)
September 21, 2021, 8:31 am
Discover a fallen poet and WWII heroine at the Hannah Senesh House near Caesarea
Recently opened to visitors, a newly renovated museum honors the Hungarian-born writer and paratrooper killed when she returned to Europe from the Holy Land to save her fellow Jews
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
Photos of the Krieger family and a graphic t-shirt of the word 'orbisculate,' which Hilary and Jonathan Krieger are working to get into the dictionary in honor of their late father, Neil. (Courtesy)
March 18, 2021, 3:35 am
You can’t look it up… yet: Siblings seek to honor late dad with ‘orbisculate’
After losing their father Neil to COVID-19 last year, his children are on a mission to commemorate him by having a term he coined officially added to the English lexicon
By Cathryn J. Prince
Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks escorts Prince Charles at his farewell dinner. (John Rifkin/ courtesy)
From the WebDecember 6, 2020, 11:11 pm
Prince Charles leads Lord Sacks memorial: I’ll miss him more than words can say
Heir to the throne, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Reuven Rivlin among leaders joining online commemoration event for late former chief rabbi, Jewish News reports
President Reuven Rivlin lights a memorial candle for coronavirus victims during a video message ahead of Yom Kippur, September 27, 2020. (Screen capture: YouTube)
September 27, 2020, 10:26 am
Rivlin calls on Jews to light Yom Kippur memorial candle for COVID-19 victims
President publishes special prayer in memory of more than 1,400 Israeli fatalities from pandemic, says not enough done to save them
By ToI Staff
Quilted hearts sent in memoriam of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. (Courtesy of the Tree of Life Congregation and Rauh Jewish History Program & Archives)
October 25, 2019, 2:16 pm
What happened to the memorials left for Pittsburgh synagogue shooting victims
Archivist for local Jewish community is collecting and documenting the tangible tributes to the 11 slain Tree of Life worshipers
By Ben Sales
Antonio Basco greets well wishers at a public memorial for his late wife Margie Reckar, on August 16, 2019, in El Paso, Texas. Reckard was one of 22 killed during the Walmart shooting in El Paso on August 3rd. (Sandy Huffaker/ Getty Images/ AFP)
August 18, 2019, 9:58 pm
Hundreds show up for memorial for El Paso shooting victim with little family
10,000 messages of support, hundreds of floral arrangements pour in after Antonio Basco asks funeral home to publicly post memorial arrangements for his late wife Margie Reckard
By AFP
Rabbi Eckstein visiting Ukraine, February 2008. (Karen Sandvick)
February 10, 2019, 3:41 pm
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein: ‘One is the number that matters’
That was his lasting message to us all: we must rid the world of suffering, human being by human being
By Asher Ostrin and Michal Frank
One ofm ore than 2,000 handmade Stars of David were hung throughout Pittsburgh (Feacebook/Jewish Hearts for Pittsburgh)
November 19, 2018, 5:55 am
More than 2,000 handmade Jewish stars hung throughout Pittsburgh
The mostly knitted Stars of David were created by more than 1,000 volunteers from around the world in response to the fatal attack at the Tree of Life synagogue
By JTA
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