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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 617

Yad Vashem

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio addresses the Foreign Ministry's international conference on combating antisemitism in Jerusalem in a recorded video message, May 28, 2025 (Zev Stub/Times of Israel)
May 28, 2025, 5:29 pm
Rubio: Murders of Israeli embassy staff a reminder of importance of ‘never again’
Delegates from 40 countries attend Foreign Ministry’s antisemitism conference in Jerusalem, first major event of Israel’s yearlong IHRA presidency
By Zev Stub
Firefighters try to extinguish a large fire that broke out in the Jerusalem Forest, May 26, 2025. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
May 26, 2025, 8:28 pm
Wildfire rages near Jerusalem, leading some residents of Yefe Nof to evacuate homes
Fire service says several crews and planes working to quell flames, as authorities fear blaze could spread towards Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum
By ToI Staff
President Isaac Herzog speaks at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 23, 2025 (Yad Vashem)
April 23, 2025, 11:54 pm
Herzog at Yad Vashem: ‘History won’t forgive those destroying Israel from within’
‘Let us lower the flames, mend our hearts,’ urges president at state Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony; PM says Hamas is ‘exactly like the Nazis’, vows to destroy it, return all hostages, thwart Iran nukes
By Zev Stub
Latvian auxiliary police assisting the round-up of Jews in Latvia in 1941. (Bundesarchiv bild)
April 22, 2025, 9:01 pm
Yad Vashem condemns Latvia’s exoneration of ‘the butcher of Riga’
Baltic nation says it couldn’t find evidence against Herberts Cukurs, believed responsible for killing tens of thousands of Latvian Jews during the Holocaust
By Zev Stub
An actor at Yad Vashem's new Touching Memory theater (Yad Vashem)
April 10, 2025, 4:31 pm
With ‘engaging’ approach to Holocaust storytelling, Yad Vashem targets next generation
A new audiovisual experience and live theater at the national museum and memorial raise questions about Shoah education after survivors pass on
By Zev Stub
From 'Heroines,' an exhibit about fashion design during wartime at the Holon Design Museum, from April 2025 (Credit Elad Sarig)
April 8, 2025, 7:07 am
Fashion exhibit looks at design as symbol of hope during World War II
Holon Design Museum launches ‘Heroines,’ a look at World War Two-era designers who leaned on fashion, as well as Holocaust items
By Jessica Steinberg
Left to right: Huguette Müller, and Marion Müller at the French resort village of Théoule-sur-Mer in 1943. (Courtesy of Tim Judah)
March 25, 2025, 5:44 am
In Nazi-occupied French Alps, a doctor risked death to save a Jewish girl. Why didn’t others?
Newly published ‘Two Sisters’ is a family memoir that goes back and forth in time to examine motivations for resistance and questions of morality in Vichy France
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Scenes from a new advertisement for Yad Vashem, criticized for being too upbeat. (Screenshot/Yad Vashem)
March 11, 2025, 6:35 pm
‘Cool’ new ad for Yad Vashem raises questions about Holocaust museum’s direction
Some Israelis startled by TV spot with beaming keyboard player touting new sound and light show at institution dedicated to preserving the memory of six million murdered Jews
By Zev Stub
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Yad Vashem street naming in New York City
January 31, 2025, 1:07 pm
New York City honors Holocaust Center and survivors with a street naming
Yad Vashem Way is the initiative of Mayor Eric Adams and Council Member Keith Powers, with the City Council’s endorsement.
By Michele Chabin
From left: New York City Councilmembers Ketih Powers and Julie Menin; Rabbi Arthur Schneier; Yad Vashem head Dani Dayan; and Israeli consul-general Ofir Akunis. New York City, January 30, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
January 31, 2025, 1:56 am
New York City names street ‘Yad Vashem Way’ amid rampant antisemitism
Block named after Israel’s Holocaust museum and memorial at ceremony attended by local and Israeli officials: ‘This is a reminder, a memory’
By Luke Tress
Yad Vashem director Dani Dayan on January 9, 2025, at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)
January 27, 2025, 4:17 pm
Yad Vashem works on innovating Holocaust remembrance methods as survivors dwindle
With Holocaust survivors aging and dying out, Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan says in a few years, there will be no one left to give firsthand testimonies
By Ruth Eglash
Yad Vashem director Dani Dayan on January 9, 2025, at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)
January 27, 2025, 12:48 pm
‘Insult to victims of Nazism’: Yad Vashem head condemns Musk speech to German far-right
Dani Dayan says failure to acknowledge Germany’s past is clear danger to its democratic future after prominent Trump ally tells AfD rally there’s too much focus on ‘past guilt’
By ToI Staff
Artist's impression of the new tower planned for the Epstein Compound in Jerusalem, nicknamed the 'Jerusalem Burj,' as seen from Yad Vashem. (AS+GG- Smith-Gil Architecture. Local architects Studio Yigal Levi Architects)
September 23, 2024, 6:44 pm
District planners approve controversial ‘Jerusalem Burj,’ rebuff most objections
Deputy Mayor Havilio vows to keep up opposition, says planners have broken own rules on building height and don’t think about preserving character of capital
By Sue Surkes
Yellow badges and a piece of luggage are displayed at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, July 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
July 8, 2024, 6:26 pm
Yad Vashem launches new conservation facility to restore and preserve artifacts
Before vast new multistory building opened, says Museum chairman Dani Dayan, ‘it was very difficult to exhibit our treasures that were kept in our vaults. They were kind of secret’
By SHLOMO MOR and Maya Alleruzzo
Illustrative. Attendees at a Yad Vashem conference. (courtesy)
July 2, 2024, 1:06 am
Yad Vashem’s Int’l Holocaust Educators’ conference wrestles with new reality
150 educators from around the world arrive in Jerusalem for the biannual meet-up in an Israel reeling from the October 7 massacre – and a Jewish world facing renewed antisemitism
By Gavriel Fiske
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