Remembrance Day

A guide to coping with individual and national loss on Remembrance Day

We have identified key strategies to cope with the specific Israeli experience of trauma and loss. These tools and techniques have helped thousands of individuals and communities to heal.

By MARC BELZBERG
12/05/2024

Amid an ongoing war, we salute Israel's fallen

This year will be unlike any other as Israel mourns the loss of countless security forces and victims of terror killed since October 7, and we pray for our soldiers still fighting in the war.

Honor Israel's fallen soldiers on Remembrance Day through the FIDF virtual experience

Those on the site can light virtual candles in their honor. They will also have a place to write personalized condolences to the loved ones left behind that will be hand-delivered to the families.

People stand still in Tel Aviv, as a two-minute siren is sounded across Israel to mark Holocaust Rem

An American Jew's reflections on the upcoming Remembrance Day

This year, Remembrance Day will be especially poignant, given the loss of more than 1,200 of our brothers and sisters on October 7, and hundreds more in the ensuing and ongoing war against Hamas.

By CARL H. TESSLER
12/05/2024

My Word: Combining commemoration and celebration

We survive not just because we remember the past but because we understand that, no matter what, we have a future. Am Yisrael chai! 

Balancing emotions: Israel struggles with how to mark Independence Day

This year, hundreds of families – who in the past were merely empathetic observers of the Remembrance Day rituals – will now be active participants.

10/05/2024

Ceremony controversy: Disputes over national day ceremonies in Israel

Even if all goes well with the ceremonies this year, broader issues will continue to plague Israel for the foreseeable future.

For bereaved Israelis, Remembrance Day is hard. OneFamily is standing with them

“My father was my entire world. It was through the support of OneFamily that I felt there was somebody to check on me,” says Shira Mark-Harif, whose father was killed in a terror attack.

By ERIC NARROW
10/05/2024

New app by Israel's Defense Ministry helps to navigate the graves of Israel's fallen forces

The application, "Memory Paths," allows individuals to navigate to graves in military cemeteries, giving users information about the fallen buried there.

By WALLA!
10/05/2024

Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem spotlights women's courage on October 7th

The exhibition will feature 25 virtual video testimonies in Hebrew and English, filmed and produced by producer Noam Shalev.

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