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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 344

Yom Hashoah

This image grab taken from footage released by the Israeli army on May 7, 2024, shows the 401st Brigade's combat team tanks entering the Gazan side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip on May 7, 2024. (Fayez Nureldine/Israeli Army/AFP)
May 7, 2024, 1:29 pm
Daily Briefing May 7: Day 214 – Has the IDF crossed the Rubicon into Rafah?
Zman Yisrael editor Biranit Goren on the significance of the operation in Gaza’s southernmost city, even as hostage talks continue; Canaan Lidor reports from March of the Living
By ToI Staff
Crowd gathered in Martyrs Forest outside Jerusalem to honor Jewish rescuers during the Holocaust in a Yom Hashoah ceremony on May 6, 2024. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)
May 6, 2024, 9:11 pm
B’nai B’rith ceremony honors 13 who rescued other Jews from Nazi atrocities
Shadow of October 7 Hamas massacre looms over crowd gathered outside Jerusalem to commemorate Yom Hashoah in the pouring rain
By Charlie Summers
Hundreds of strangers attend the funeral of Holocaust survivor Esther Greizer in Haifa on May 6, 2024 (Screen grab via Channel 12 news)
May 6, 2024, 4:14 pm
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, hundreds of strangers attend funeral of Auschwitz survivor
Esther Greizer, 95, who died overnight and was laid to rest in Haifa, was unable to have children after being subjected to experiments as a child at the death camp
By ToI Staff
Palestinians hold leaflets dropped by Israeli planes calling on them to evacuate ahead of an Israeli military operation in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, May 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Ismael Abu Dayyah)
May 6, 2024, 12:48 pm
Daily Briefing May 6: Day 213 – War at a crossroads as IDF orders partial Rafah evacuation
Emanuel Fabian reports on a deadly Hamas rocket barrage from Rafah and IDF preparations for a ground operation; Lazar Berman on contentious hostage talks and the pace of the war
By ToI Staff
Hannah Gofrit, an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor speaks to a crowd of people in Tel Aviv's Hostages Square at Holocaust Remembrance Day event on evening of May 5, 2024. (Courtesy of Hostages and Missing Families Forum/Paulina Patimer)
May 6, 2024, 4:17 am
Hostage families and Holocaust survivors vow ‘Never again’ while marking Yom Hashoah
‘Pain is pain, it doesn’t matter if I experienced it in Poland or now, on Oct. 7,’ Holocaust survivor Hannah Gofrit tells teary-eyed crowd of thousands at Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square
By Charlie Summers
A visitor is seen at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem on May 2, 2024, several days ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 6, 2024, 1:37 am
Study: Grief Israelis feel on Holocaust Remembrance Day can help ease political rifts
Hebrew University social psychologists find that periodic national days of mourning and commemoration can serve the important purpose of reducing ideological antagonism
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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
Protesters hold placards with the picture of 21-year-old Omer Shem Tov during a demonstration to ask for the release of hostages held in Gaza since the October 7 attack, in Tel Aviv, on December 2, 2023. (Ahmad Gharabli/ AFP)
May 5, 2024, 8:00 pm
Hostage families, freed captives to share stories with journalists for Yom Hashoah
On especially somber Holocaust Remembrance Day, Government Press Office invites foreign journalists to panel discussion, in-depth briefing on sex crimes committed on October 7
By ToI Staff
Dr. Tamara Kolitz, an endocrinologist from Tel Aviv-Sourasky Medical Center cares for a Holocaust survivor in his home. (Courtesy of LeMa'anam)
May 5, 2024, 6:58 am
How a cadre of 1,500 MDs began paying house calls to Israel’s Holocaust survivors
Post-October 7, non-profit LeMa’anam faces greater challenges in meeting the medical needs of elderly survivors, many who have been re-traumatized by the war
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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
Illustrative: An Auschwitz survivor shows his tattooed number in Lueneburg, Germany, July 15, 2015 (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)
May 3, 2024, 9:04 pm
1 in 3 Holocaust survivors can’t afford all the groceries they need — survey
Poll ahead of Israel’s Holocaust Day also shows over 50% of respondents have difficulties paying bills, while 41% suffer loneliness
By Canaan Lidor
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
Holocaust survivor Herbert Rubinstein talks during an interview with The Associated Press at his home in Dusseldorf, Germany, April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
May 2, 2024, 9:32 am
Survivors rebut Holocaust denial posts on social media to fight antisemitism
Claims Conference launches #cancelhate campaign ahead of Yom Hashoah to shine a light on historic persecution of Jews amid anti-Israel protests over Gaza war
By Agencies
Ephraim Mol gives his testimony to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial center, published June 27, 2021. (YouTube screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 21, 2023, 3:08 pm
Holocaust survivor slated to recite prayer at Yad Vashem ceremony dies at 85
Ephraim Mol collapsed, suffered stroke day before Yom Hashoah; born in Belgium, he was separated from parents while fleeing Nazis, hidden in Paris for duration of war
By Michael Horovitz
Antisemitic graffiti sprayed on Temple De Hirsch Sinai in Seattle, April 16, 2023. (Screenshot/Twitter: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 21, 2023, 7:49 am
Tagged a day before Yom Hashoah, Seattle temple keeps anti-Israel graffiti as message
Rabbi of Temple De Hirsch Sinai says vandalism retained as reminder of present-day antisemitism, vandals’ timing ‘deliberate,’ wanted to be as hurtful as possible
By Andrew Lapin
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