Remembrance Day

Israel to mark Independence Day with 'heads held high', says Bennett as opposition honors fallen

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett told The Jerusalem Post that while Israel remembers those who were lost, it also embraces the families who sacrificed “what was most precious to them."

Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett attends the funeral of Israeli soldier Staff Sergeant Maxsim Entis at the Bat Yam Military Cemetery, March 31, 2026.
Israeli soldiers place Israeli flags on graves of Israeli soldiers during the flag laying ceremony in Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, on April 19, 2026, a few days before the Memorial Day for Israel's Fallen Soldiers.

A Remembrance Day movie about brokenness that heals - opinion

 Druze community military ceremony in Usfiya

Two Druze Remembrance Day ceremony attendees accuse gov't of 'baseless promises, destroying homes'

Small stickers on lampposts and bus stops, petrol stations and kitchen fridges, plastered on the walls of army bases and in bus depots.

The Torah our children wrote - opinion


Israel's 'Ten Days of Deliverance' were more difficult this year - opinion

Although there had been predictions that the war would go on for two years, I couldn’t internalize that we wouldn’t have finished the fighting or brought home the hostages in the first year.

 WE REMEMBER: Family and friends mourn as Maj. Dvir Zion Revah is laid to rest on Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl, Jan. 7. Revah, 28, was killed in combat in the Gaza Strip

Israel's fire still burns: Reflecting on the symbolism of our remembrance days - opinion

The worst fires in modern Israeli history erupted just as our people sought to celebrate our hard-won independence.

 AERIAL VIEW of damage caused to Park Canada forest by massive wildfires, May 3

Israel's independence is incomplete until every hostage comes home - opinion

Jewish ethics insist that a society is judged not by its military might or economic prosperity but by how it treats its most marginalized members. This is the heart of our national mission.

 Relatives of Israelis held hostage protest outside Independence Hall in Tel Aviv, April 30, 2025

Memorial in Ra'anana makes false equivalency, but violence on attendees unacceptable - editorial

On Remembrance Day Eve, a group of far-right activists descended on a Reform synagogue where a private screening of the ceremony was taking place.

 Israelis observe Remembrance Day, April 30, 2025.

What Europe can learn from Israel on the meaning of Remembrance Day - opinion

The horrifying scenes from Ukraine to Sudan are on our screens and headlines, and the current damage from bullets and bombs.

VISITING A grave at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem this week: The sign above the headstone reads, ‘In our hearts, you will live forever.’ On Remembrance Day, Israel stood silent, mourning its young people who died defending its population. Europe, too, would do well to pause, says th

Grapevine May 2, 2025: Christian friends who care

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 NACHMAN ASH

Pleasure and plagues: The struggles of staying in Israel now, but why staying matters - opinion

I struggled to find something to say to Donna that would give her some comfort and re-route the river of anguish and angst that was flowing through her veins.

An El Al Israel Airlines Boeing 737-900ER airplane takes off from the Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas airport as seen from Paracuellos del Jarama, outside Madrid, Spain, August 8, 2018

Remembrance Day, Independence Day: Memory of the past and building the dream of the future

As we move this week from Remembrance Day – when we risk drowning in sorrow – to Independence Day – when we soar in celebration – we carry both the tears and the triumphs with us.

 ‘VISION AND Tranquility,’ Eden Wolfgur, from Beit Hillel’s illustrated Grace After Meals booklet ‘For the Good and Gracious Land.’

To live and die for Israel: An outsider's perspective on Remembrance Day - opinion

"I truly don’t think I fully understood what it meant to be Israeli until I experienced Remembrance Day in Israel for the first time."

 A state memorial ceremony for victims of terror, at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, April 30, 2025, during Memorial Day which commemorates the fallen Israeli soldiers and victims of terror.

Israel must 'act immediately to prevent a massacre' of Syrian Druze, leader says during ceremony

Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif called on Israel to act: "Israel must not stand idly by while this is happening in Syria."

 Druze community military ceremony in Usfiya