Following a two-minute siren sounded throughout the country to mark Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day, an official state wreath-laying ceremony began at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem Thursday morning.An hour later at 11 a.m. in the Knesset, a ceremony entitled "every person has a name" was set to begin, led by President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyhau, in which the names of Holocaust victims will be read out.Read the full story here
(photo credit: The Jerusalem Post)