Despite some disturbance by a group of hecklers who were kept away by police officers, the ceremony proceeded without notable incidents.
Smotrich wrote that anarchists and Israeli media are responsible for calls for MKs not to attend Remembrance Day ceremonies.
Israel's Remembrance Day will begin on Monday night and end on Tuesday night with a transition into Independence Day.
"We do not remember numbers; we remember lives," Herzog said in the Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony.
This year, the central theme of Holocaust Remembrance Day will be the Jewish resistance during the Holocaust and the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
We firmly believe that not only may our elected officials be allowed to join in the Israel Remembrance Day commemorations, but they must be there.
There is a myth that Judaism looks askance at directly talking about death and mortality. But this isn't true.
Memories of a giant: Personal perspectives upon the 30th yahrzeit of ‘the Rav’
A memorial ceremony was held in the presence of Chaim Topol's coffin and he was remembered by friends and admirers.
Judy Heumann was born in 1947 to two parents who had separately fled Nazi Germany as children in the 1930s.