Israel Memorial Day (Yom Hazikaron)

Opinion

We Israelis couldn’t visit our loved ones’ graves this Memorial Day. Still, we remember.

It’s an opportunity to pause from the ceremonies and ritual to dedicate some time to thinking about our fallen loved ones and what they could have been.

By Aviad Friedman April 28, 2020 11:40 am

Sirens wail throughout Israel at start of Memorial Day — then there was a Western Wall ceremony with no audience

Some 23,816 soldiers and security officers have died while serving in the Israel Defense Forces and its forerunners.

April 27, 2020 1:12 pm

Israel will be under lockdown for Memorial and Independence days

The Cabinet also approved regulations for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

April 22, 2020 3:33 pm

Pittsburgh and Poway victims honored at Jewish Agency’s Memorial Day ceremony in Israel

By Marcy Oster May 8, 2019 9:06 am

Israelis on Memorial Day mourn nation’s 23,741 soldiers killed in service

By Marcy Oster May 7, 2019 1:42 pm

Israel’s Defense Ministry rejects visit of bereaved Palestinians for joint Memorial Day program

By Marcy Oster May 3, 2019 9:47 am

Israel remembers its fallen soldiers on Memorial Day

April 17, 2018 3:51 pm

Film chronicling 3 wounded Israeli soldiers to help high school students connect on Yom Hazikaron

February 4, 2018 2:52 pm

Israelis start Memorial Day with siren to remember 23,544 fallen

April 30, 2017 1:57 pm

Opinion

We need to put the Yizkor back into Memorial Day

By Jerry Silverman May 26, 2016 12:22 pm

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