These are powerful pictures and a glimpse of today in Israel. Courtesy of Reuters and the AP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking at the opening ceremony
for Holocaust Remembrance Day, at Yad Vashem on Monday night.
(Reuters)
Children of an Israeli choir wait to perform at a ceremony to mark Holocaust
Remembrance Day, outside the UN headquarters in Geneva on Monday.
(AP)
Twin sisters and Holocaust survivors Lia Huber and Yudit Barnea light
a torch during the opening ceremony marking the Holocaust
Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem on Monday. (AP)
Holocaust survivors Ruth Fayon, left, David Planer, center, and
Georges Loinger attend a ceremony to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day
outside the UN headquarters in Geneva on Monday. (AP)
An Israeli woman soldier reacts as she visits the Holocaust museum
at Yad Vashem on Tuesday. (AP)
Two nuns join Israelis in Jerusalem as they observe a two-minute
silence on Tuesday to remember the victims of the Holocaust. (AP)
Vice Premier Silvan Shalom honors Holocaust victims in a
visit to the Auschwitz death camp in Poland on Tuesday. (Reuters)
President Shimon Peres remembers his relatives who perished in
the Holocaust at the “Every one has a name’ ceremony at Yad Vashem on Tuesday.
(Tess Scheflan)
Tel Aviv comes to a standstill Tuesday morning as Israelis observe a
two-minute silence to remember the victims of the Holocaust. (Reuters)
Orthodox Israelis visit the Holocaust museum at Yad Vashem on Tuesday.
(AP)
