Yad Vashem

Indian PM Modi to visit Israel on Wednesday, Netanyahu confirms

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Israel this week, engaging in talks with Netanyahu on strengthening ties in high-tech, AI, and regional alliances.

|ByJAMES GENN
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks at a press event as he delivers joint declarations alongside France's President Emmanuel Macron in Mumbai on February 17, 2026; illustrative.
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar hosting his Finnish counterpart, Elina Valtonen, at the Foreign Ministry, Jerusalem, February 15, 2026.

Finnish FM visits Jerusalem for first time since 2016, discusses regional issues with FM Sa'ar

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar hosted Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen in Jerusalem, marking the first such visit in nearly a decade amid EU discussions on Israel.

|ByANNA BARSKY
Layla Blenden.

Layla Blenden: Jewelry of kindness

Blenden has begun selling her pieces at craft fairs and pop-up exhibitions showcasing the work of olim hadashim in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. She donates all proceeds to a charity fund in the US.

|ByBASIA MONKA
HESSY TAFT poses holding a photograph of herself taken in 1935 by well-known German photographer Hans Ballin during an interview with Reuters July 9, 2014.

Jewish woman once held up by Nazis as ideal Aryan baby dead at 91

Born in Berlin in 1934 to Latvian Jewish parents Jacob and Polin Levinson, Taft was photographed when she was 6 months old by a German photographer, Hans Ballin.

|ByGRACE GILSON/JTA

UK officials cover London Holocaust memorial over vandalization fears

The Holocaust memorial in Hyde Park, London, was covered by officials in fear that it might be vandalized by pro-Palestinian protesters.

APRIL 28, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A woman and a child stand next to the Holocaust memorial in Hyde Park, covered by a tarpaulin, on the day of a march in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, in London, April 27, 2024.

Yad Vashem Chairman to Columbia president: 'The time has come for you to take a stand'

Dayan implored Dr. Shafik to “lead with moral principles, not only with administrative regulations. Speak up.”

APRIL 27, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
DANI DAYAN at Yad Vashem – caught in a cross fire.

President Herzog gifts Babylonian Talmud that survived the Holocaust to Yad Vashem

The Talmud had been entrusted to Rabbi Yitzhak Halevi Herzog in 1946, while he was recovering Jewish children hiding in non-Jewish homes and monastries.

APRIL 17, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Babylonian Talmud that survived the Holocaust gifted to Yad Vashem by President Herzog, April 17, 2024.

Grapevine March 31, 2024: An emotional visit

Movers and shakers in Israeli society

MARCH 31, 2024ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
YEHUDIT RAVITZ performs at the jubilee ceremony of the IDF Disabled Veterans Organization, in 2000, in Tel Aviv.

Handmade Purim noisemaker from Holocaust transit camp donated to Yad Vashem

The grogger belonged to the late Marcel Micenmacher, who survived the Holocaust with few other objects to serve as mementos from his parents, who were murdered at Auschwitz in 1942. 

MARCH 22, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A Purim noisemaker, handmade by Kelman Micenmacher for his son Marcel in Nazi-occupied France in 1941. The grogger is now in the collection of Yad Vashem.

Grapevine March 14, 2024: All at sea

Movers and shakers of Israeli society.

MARCH 15, 2024ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
RA'ANANA MAYOR Chaim Broyde with Mindy Ajzner.

The Holocaust museum in the Netherlands was desperately needed - opinion

Today, amid the passage of time, we are once again witness to an all too familiar and worrying trend of antisemitism and ignorance.

MARCH 12, 2024ByDANI DAYAN
THE WRITER (left) meets with King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and President Isaac Herzog at the opening of the new Dutch National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam.

Russia spreads claims Yad Vashem hides Ukraine Nazi collaboration

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova shared on her Telegram channel claims by a Russian language Youtube channel that Yad Vashem had been hiding material on the Holocaust in Ukraine.

MARCH 4, 2024ByMICHAEL STARR
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova speaks during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) in Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 15, 2022.

Yad Vashem marks over 100 days of hostages held in Gaza

As Israel marked 100 days since the Hamas attack on October 7, Yad Vashem held a special event to mark the onslaught and show support for the abductees. 

FEBRUARY 4, 2024ByMARC NEUGROSCHEL
NAAMA EGOZI (L), head of Yad Vashem’s teacher training division, interviews Liat Beinin Atzili of Kibbutz Nir Oz, who shared some of her experiences in captivity.

Jerusalem highlights January 26-February 1

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

JANUARY 27, 2024ByHAGAY HACOHEN
CELLIST JULIAN STECKEL.