Israel Memorial Day (Yom Hazikaron)

Israel’s national anthem played at Dutch military cemetery as both nations honor fallen troops

The gesture coincided with the Dutch and Israeli memorial day but was meant to honor Jewish resistance fighters, a local rabbi said.

For Yom Hazikaron, 5 ways to stream Israel’s Memorial Day services from home

This year, a range of programs and memorial services are being livestreamed, and geared toward English-speaking audiences.

Ideas

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.

Israel

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

Israel

Israel will be under lockdown for Memorial and Independence days

Israel

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

Israel

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

Israel

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

Israel

Israel remembers its fallen soldiers on Memorial Day

Global

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

Sections

Get JTA in your inbox

Get JTA in your inbox

Get JTA in your inbox