Yad Vashem amends memorial prayers to include Jews in Arab countries
The Yizkor prayer had asked God to remember “all the souls of all the communities of Beit Israel in the European Diaspora” who died in the Holocaust. In the amended prayer the word European is remove
An exterior view of the Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum(photo credit: TIMOTHY HURSLEY)ByMARCY OSTER/JTA