Memorial day

Bar Timor: 'We don't forget, we will continue carrying the memory with us'

Hapoel Tel Aviv marked three years since Oct 7. Yannay: "We brought joy." Ginat: "We thought about the fallen then, and we think about them today."

“Together Forever” marking Black Saturday on October 7.
IDF soldiers lower Israeli flags to half-mast at the President's Residence in Jerusalem to commemorate the October 7 massacre, October 5, 2026.

From North to South: Israel bows its head in remembrance of October 7 massacre

 Local Modi’in children visit the path honoring Yonah Betzalel Brief.

Modi’in project with Rochester Jewish community turns fallen soldiers' stories into memorials

Yahav Shorer, advocate

For the first time: Israeli law recognizes a Family Memorial Day as a protected leave day


Lebanon War Vets Find Solace in Facebook Group During Pandemic

Nearly 28,000 former military members go to page to express themselves freely, find healing

Lt. Yishai Shechter, shortly before he was killed in action in southern Lebanon, in 1996.

Shin Bet to send reps to visit bereaved families in lieu of a ceremony

In light of this year's coronavirus restrictions, the Service's annual Memorial Day ceremony will be replaced by a personal visit by Shin Bet representatives to the homes of every bereaved family.

Shin Bet Chief Nadav Argaman stands in front of the wall of fallen servicepeople at Shin Bet headquarters.

An empty Western Wall ceremony begins Memorial Day 2020

All cemeteries closed during Israel's most sacrosanct day due to coronavirus regulations

The Memorial torch being lit at the Western Wall Memorial Day ceremony 2020 by IDF Widows and Orphans' Organization Chairwoman Tami Shelah

OneFamily Yom Hazikaron 'hug' to families of terror victims - watch now

"Every click, every view, of the OneFamily on-line ceremony tells each family of the soldiers and the victims of terror - We are there for you now."

One Family hosts Memorial Day Ceremony for victims of Terror

Remembrance Day and the haredim – opinion

We hear stories of haredim walking around as usual during the minute silence and haredi schools continuing as if nothing is going on

Border Police go about coronavirus inspections in Mea Shearim, a haredi neighborhood in Jerusalem.

Blood of the Maccabees: How a red flower became the symbol of Memorial Day

Every year on Yom HaZikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day, many of us wear the famous Dam HaMaccabim sticker. The connection between the flower and the occasion was made in the early days of the state


Afikim and Olami launch website to educate on lives of fallen IDF soldiers

In addition to learning about the lives of Israel's fallen IDF soldiers, visitors can also perform a positive deed.

Yom HaZikaron Mount Herzl 1 390

Israelis-Palestinians to honor dead at virtual Memorial Day Ceremony

The annual Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day Ceremony, features both Israeli and Palestinian speakers, who have lost loved ones to violence from the conflict.

Israeli Palestinian Memorial Day Ceremony

Dan Hamaccabim Project launches domestication program of memorial flower

The Dan Hamaccabim Project is a non-profit organization funded both by private and public donations devoted to growing, conserving and distributing the Dan Hamaccabim flower.

A civilian and a soldier wearing the memorial flower

Remembrance - celebrating life in these times

Beit Avi Chai is certainly offering “something” for this Remembrance Day, as it has for the past eight years.

Inbal Ochyon's ‘The Melody of His Life’