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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 350

Yad Vashem

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
A collection of hanukkiot, Hanukkah candelabras, in the collection of Yad Vashem, including one dedicated on June 26, 2024 (Courtesy)
June 27, 2024, 2:05 pm
Family menorah saved from Holocaust is donated to Yad Vashem
Kafka family’s Hanukkah candelabra was hidden in Poland, then Finland; now resides in Jerusalem Holocaust museum’s new collection center
By Jessica Steinberg
Photos from a baby book kept by the adoptive mother who sheltered Efraim Kochava during the Holocaust (Courtesy)
May 6, 2024, 6:06 pm
Yad Vashem displays scrapbooks by women hiding Jewish babies
Holocaust museum displays three books recently added to its archives that were put together by women who hoped the children’s mothers would see them one day
By Jessica Steinberg
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a wreath-laying ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day, in the Hall of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, May 6, 2024. (Amir Cohen/Pool Photo via AP)
May 6, 2024, 12:33 pm
Netanyahu heckled at Yad Vashem wreath-laying ceremony
During annual Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration, protester demands PM’s resignation, says he ‘failed in a very serious way to protect the people of Israel’
By Sam Sokol
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, May 5, 2024. (Kobi Gideon/ GPO)
May 5, 2024, 11:56 pm
PM at Yad Vashem: Oct. 7 was not a Holocaust, but only because Israel can defend itself
Marking Yom Hashoah, President Isaac Herzog also says the Hamas massacre of October 7 ‘echoed the horrors’ of the Holocaust, but does not compare to WWII atrocities
By Sam Sokol
A small Israeli flag on the rail tracks at the site of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau camp during commemorations to honor the victims of the Holocaust, near the historical gate of Birkenau (Auschwitz II) near the village of Brzezinka near Oswiecim, Poland on April 28, 2022. (Wojtek Radwanski / AFP)
May 4, 2024, 8:04 am
How Jewish world marking Yom Hashoah, months after deadliest day for Jews since Holocaust
March of the Living to be led by 55 survivors, including 7 also affected by October 7; while some double-survivors connect the two experiences, others caution against
By jacob gurvis
The 2024 torch-lighters at Yad Vashem's annual Holocaust commemoration for Yom Hashoah. (Courtesy)
May 3, 2024, 5:31 am
Prescient Holocaust Remembrance Day theme focuses on destroyed communities
Annual Holocaust commemoration in Jerusalem to include traditional elements while making space for the unprecedented Oct. 7 massacres in southern Israel and ongoing war with Hamas
By Matt Lebovic
Yad Vashem chief Dani Dayan in the Hall of Names at the Jerusalem museum, undated. (Alex Kolomoisky)
April 27, 2024, 10:43 am
Yad Vashem to Columbia president: Take a moral stand against ‘eliminate Israel’ ideology
Dayan tells Shafik to decide if Israel’s elimination can be ‘a legitimate cause’ in syllabi, lectures, events; draws line from NY school to Heidelberg University in 1930s Germany
By ToI Staff
In 'Irena's Vow,' Irena Gut (Sophie Nélisse) crouches in front of the grill covering the entrance to the basement of a German officer's home in Tarnopol, Poland where she hides 12 Jews (Quiver Distribution)
April 15, 2024, 12:37 pm
How 12 Jews survived the Holocaust hidden by a maid in a Nazi officer’s basement
Film ‘Irena’s Vow,’ opening in the US on April 15, tells the true story of faith and humanity that led a young Polish woman to risk her life to save the lives of others
By Renee Ghert-Zand
The Epstein project planned for west Jerusalem, dubbed the Burj Jerusalem. (Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture)
April 9, 2024, 11:01 am
Planned ‘Jerusalem Burj’ skyscraper draws opposition over proximity to landmarks
200 objections lodged against plans for 200-meter tower, designed by Burj Khalifa architect’s firm, to overlook Yad Vashem and Mount Herzl military cemetery; would be capital’s tallest building
By Sue Surkes
Brazil's ambassador to Israel, Frederico Meyer (L), and Foreign Minister Israel Katz (R) tour the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem, February 19, 2024. (Michael Dimenstein/GPO)
February 19, 2024, 2:07 pm
Israel declares Brazil’s Lula persona non grata for comparing Gaza war to Holocaust
Reprimanding ambassador at Yad Vashem, foreign minister says president will have to apologize before being welcomed to Israel
By Lazar Berman
Former Supreme Court Justice Hanan Melcer speaks at a press conference for media freedom in Israel, at Bar Ilan university, February 26, 2023 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
February 4, 2024, 3:55 pm
Ex-Supreme Court justice Melcer to lead panel that selects Righteous Among Nations
Retired judge, whose father was rescued by Oskar Schindler and whose mother survived Auschwitz, calls appointment to Yad Vashem committee a ‘great honor’
By ToI Staff
A banner in a permanent exhibit at Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust museum, urging visitors to 'remember what Amalek did to you,' in an undated photo distributed by the Prime Minister's Office (Courtesy)
January 16, 2024, 2:56 pm
PM’s office says it’s ‘preposterous’ to say his invoking Amalek was a genocide call
Netanyahu’s office notes biblical phrase about remembering enemy of ancient Israelites hangs in Yad Vashem — as well as The Hague — in memorials to Jews killed in Holocaust
By Jeremy Sharon
Harvard president Claudine Gay, left, and University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill listen during a hearing of the House Committee on Education on Capitol Hill, Dec. 5, 2023 in Washington. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)
December 7, 2023, 11:11 am
Heads of Harvard, Penn condemn Jewish genocide calls after appearing to condone speech
University presidents had refused to say calling for genocide of Jews is harassment on their campuses at House hearing, drawing anger; White House and Holocaust museums join outcry
By ToI Staff and JTA
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