National Unity Chairman Benny Gantz is among the keynote speakers at the event.
The Jerusalem Post has learned that a number of Jewish organizations around the world as well as in Israel received an offer for a donation from Christie’s.
Israeli governments have boycotted the party and refused to hold ties with the AfD traditionally.
VIPs often kick off their visits to Israel at Yad Vashem and Jerusalem’s Old City, where they pray at the Western Wall and other holy sites.
Bettina Malka-Igelbusch is a German-Israeli citizen and a convert from a Catholic family. Confronting her own family's Holocaust history, she works now at Yad Vashem.
The Holocaust was an event without parallel in human history and the Nazi drive to murder Jews was singular and obsessive.
During his speech, the prime minister told the story of a Holocaust survivor, Benjamin Zeev Wertzberger who moved to Israel after surviving Mauthausen Concentration Camp.