Ideas Back-to-back Israeli holidays are exhausting – and emotionally manipulative We mourn our fallen soldiers and celebrate Israel’s existence with an orchestrated range of emotion, writes a conflicted Israeli.
Sirens and solidarity on Yom Hazikaron A new immigrant to Israel is surprised by a siren and struck by the social solidarity on Israel’s Memorial Day.
Israel observes Memorial Day with siren, ceremonies More than 90 Israelis were killed over the last 12 months in attacks on the homeland, the Israeli government said as it marked Israel’s memorial day for fallen soldiers.